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From: werner@aecom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Interactive fiction
Message-ID: <1069@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 23:00:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 23:00:57 1987
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In article <610@percival.UUCP>, gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) writes:
> 
> OK, Adam, let me say that my experience with this form is quite limited.  We
> have a "storyboard" on our system, & there have been several attempts to 
> get/keep a story alive, all of which have failed.  The primary problems that
> I have seen:
> 1)Lack of continuity. Too many fingers have been in the pie, & the story
> line gets lost.  
> 2)Digresions into who was sabotaging who's character, etc.
> 3)Start up of another,non-compatable story in the midst of the existing story.

	Funny. The above reminds me of quite a bit of the
Mahabharata, especially the 3rd objection.

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