Re: Intraactive fiction?


15 Sep 1995 01:25:06 -0400

Well, you could make the same arguments against books, too -- they cut
people off from society, etc. Is television (or, say, Trivial Pursuit)
better because people can do it in groups?

I've hung out on LambdaMOO some; it's interesting for awhile, but I really
quickly found myself yearning for some plot, some structure, something to
*do*.

Anyway, I find i-f to be very social -- I talk to friends about it, and
gossip about it here and on r.g.i-f, for two things. And, for that matter,
I enjoy the one-on-one social interaction I get with the author of a game,
entering their world, just as I enjoy entering the world of the author of
a novel.

Neil
neild@echonyc.com