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Hello from Vienna! There was a presentation at my conference yesterday by the developer of TiddlyWiki, a fascinating wiki system that allows you to build networked documents both on- and offline. I was just poking around on his website and spotted a link labeled "TiddlyWikiFiction." There are links there to several wiki fiction projects that I thought you might all take a look at those projects, and particularly Gimcrack'd...

Interactive Fiction Competition and some words on gaming

For those of you interested in further exploring hypertexts/interactive fiction, the twelfth annual Interactive Fiction Competition is going on right now. You can download and judge the entries. Interactive fictions of this sort present the reader with the beginning of the story. Then the reader types in actions for the characters to perform. The story responds by telling what happens as a result of these actions. Your decisions influence the outcome. It very much reminds me of a textual version of a video game like Myst. The reader is presented with an environment and must use their intelligence to navigate through it.