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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: More on What IF is...
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Carl D. Cravens (ravenpub@southwind.net) wrote:
> Then the former part.  With the current level of technology available,
> there is no collaboration at all.  The IF author creates the entire game
> without the input or cooperation of the player... everything that the
> player can do to the plot has been put there and allowed by the author.
> You can do nothing important that the author has not already accounted
> for.  Again... the player's 'impetus' gives nothing to the work... the
> player simply decides to continue through the work, or to quit.  The
> player is creating nothing... he is simply tracing a path already drawn
> for him by the author.

Can't this statement be made at any level of technology? 

"The IF author creates the personality matrices for the AI holograms with
no input from the player. The AIs can only grow and learn using the
algorithms the author designed. The player can only interact with them,
not design his own matrices." 

:-)

(I'm just stretching ideas here. In my own work, I *want* to have 
complete control over the story. Collaborative story design is not where 
I'm heading with IF.)

-- 

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
