Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation

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Links

Espen Aarseth: www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/

Espen Aarseth: Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. www.hf.uib.no/cybertext/default.html
Cybertext explores the aesthetics and the textual dynamics of digital literature and its many diverse genres such as hypertext fiction, computer games, computer generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. The author situates these new literary forms within the larger and much older field of "ergodic" literature, from the ancient Chinese I Ching to the literary experiments of the OuLiPo. These are open, dynamic texts where the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence, which may vary for every reading.

Espen Aarseth: The Field of Humanistic Informatics and its Relation to the Humanities. www.hf.uib.no/hi/espen/HI.html

Choose Your Own Adventure: www.netaxs.com/~katz/game/cyoalist.htm
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LinguaMOO: lingua.utdallas.edu:7000/
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Playing with the Future: Development and Direction in Computer Gaming: www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz/abstracts.htm
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