Interesting

Ok, I tried Photopia and it's really neat, up to a point. I thought it was really interesting how Photopia took interactive fiction to a new level. It was both a combination of a game and of course a narrative, yet it was the game aspect that made Photopia different than the other interactive fictions I have encountered. The ones that we experimented so far, was based on a coversation. Basically in Galatea, it took both cordination and the right words to actually talk to a statue (as if it was a person).
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The term interactive fiction is very interesting to me because today, we live in a world that is using more advanced and digital technology in order to interact with computers, games, etc. However, how interactive are these things?
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I really thought the class we had last Thursday was very interesting. It was neat to talk about olden times because when we talked about mash-ups on Tuesday, I only thought it could be relevant to new media and technology.
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I thought the first chapter of Avatars of Story was very interesting. It took a lot of concentration for me to understand, but overall I got the main idea. When one reads a book, or plays a video game, even going on their computer, they do not realize how much narratives are in it. I never really thought about what made up a narrative. A narrative was just someone (or something) telling a story. But it's so much more. At first, I never realized that some properties that makes up a narrative are spacial dimension, temporal dimension, mental dimension and formal and pragmatic dimension.
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When I read a novel, or any types of literature, I never really think about the characters within the story and how they help keep the story going. However, my view has changed completely about charcters. What they do (their actions) and what they say (their words) are what makes people judge that charcter's personlality and how they portray it. Characters are what makes the story not only interesting, but they help the story create a meaning.
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After pushing with all my mental might thru 8 pages of post-modern pomp, I arrived at an exhaustion point. Actually, several ideas have struck me already, and I especially think that the multistability concept of some images is worth exploring, and perhaps should be re-emphasized in historic-minded circles.

Perhaps art should be moving more in this direction, rather than as one art student explained moving into post modernism's "to please the audience" reason for making new art. Ambiguity, but more than that; in most cases duality.
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When I first read this comic, I was so engaged in the plot and the story, that I didn't realize how the form of the comic could affect other things. The structure of the comic affected the personality of the comic (especially Donald Duck), the framing and the events occuring.
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This game was pretty interesting to me, because I really didn't know what to expect. After many tries of downloading the game, I finally entered the world of Passage, which was a narrow screen with black on top and the bottom. At first, I only saw a blur to the left of the screen, realizing it was my character. Hesistantly, I pressed the right arrow button and my little character was walking. Honestly, I didn't know what to do, except keep going straight, until suddenly I see another character! This was no other character, it was my character's love (the big heart gave it away).
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