Wednesday, February 3

Educational challenge-based interactive fiction. Of a sort. � Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

Educational challenge-based interactive fiction. Of a sort. � Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling: "Back in 1993 I [Emily Short] was tutoring my sister in algebra. Her quizzes and tests were always made of word problems with a running storyline involving many recurring places and characters. I tied the fate of the main characters to how well she did on the previous quiz, so a good performance brought them good fortune.

Unfortunately, one test she completely bombed, and, well, this is a transcription of the quiz she got next. (On behalf of my younger self, I apologize to the people of Argentina, the spirit of Goethe, and hypnotists. [Hi, Conrad.])"

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