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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: More on What IF is...
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Jean-Henri Duteau (jeand@myrias.com) wrote:
> Anyways, IF has grown out of the adventure game mold.  Just as
> Story-Telling has grown out of the RPG and become a new form of
> fiction in its own right, IF has its parallels with the adventure
> games.  Yet, we're still throwing "locked-door" puzzles and "not
> enough room to carry" puzzles in our stories instead of working on the
> fiction aspects of it.

Who are you calling "we", white boy?

--Z

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