You are working with an interactive narrative in the form of a book

January 10, 2018 8:48 AM

A gallery of Choose Your Own Adventure-type books in graph form, created and discussed by a team of undergrad researchers at UCSB. Check out this Google doc on methods (including what the symbols mean), and these posts on what the graphs reveal.
posted by nebulawindphone (4 comments total)

Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games may also be interesting related reading, although not limited specifically to traditional CYOA gamebooks. Still, it looks like there's a fair number of different overarching structures represented in this team's project.

In the past I've found GraphViz/dot (the thing they used to create the diagrams) to be both 1) very useful and 2) unexpectedly uncooperative on some specific points.
posted by inconstant at 8:57 AM on January 10, 2018 [2 favorites]

Based on the Demian Katz Gamebook Collection housed in the The Department of Special Research Collections in the UC Santa Barbara Library. Check out what Demian Katz is doing now:
Edward T. LeBlanc Dime Novel Bibliography project
posted by mfoight at 8:58 AM on January 10, 2018

You just have to let go. dot is going to do what it does. Save to SVG and edit in inkscape if you need to.
posted by bdc34 at 10:06 AM on January 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Thanks for posting!!!
posted by josher71 at 12:48 PM on January 10, 2018