Ashton MacSaylor

I've written a lot about interactivity in narrative, but I feel that I have a slightly different perspective on it now that I'm deep...

A constant presence in the back of my mind somewhere is the question, "what makes good interactive fiction?" I mean, this is the a...

This is a thematic continuation of last week's post. To catch up, go read Part One . Last week, I described one specific case in whic...

A few weeks ago, Dave Morris raised an interesting question on his blog, " Does interactive fiction need randomness ?" One of t...

I've mentioned a couple times a combat-related post that I was working on. Well, without further ado, here you go: This year in Wind...

A few weeks ago I started a post about death in gamebooks, and wound up writing a post about death in games. The basic conclusion I reached ...

Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how to impose consequences for failure in gamebooks. The traditional method is with d...

At the risk of seeming like something of a one-trick pony, this post is about Gamebook Theory. I'll try to make this one shorter and mor...

I apologize (again) for dragging out this discussion so long! In truth, Game Theory in general, and Gamebook Theory in specific are somethin...

Hello All, I fell off the wagon for a few days, but I'm jumping back on and trying to get caught up with posting E, F, G and H all tod...

Yesterday, I posted a short sample gamebook . It's 17 entries, with maybe half a dozen real choices, but hopefully there's enough su...

This is an article in my "Gamebook Theory" series. For prior articles, see Part 1: Story  or  Part 2: Narrative Choices . Last w...

Hello everybody =) Thanks for being patient. After the positive responses to Part One of this article, I have wanted to take my time and mak...

I'm working on a major gamebook project at the moment, one which means a lot to me, as it represents my first chance to potentially get ...