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What Aristotle called "the arrangement of the incidents," the plot of a work depends upon how its episodes are presented. A work of IF may have only one possible plot, as in Photopia. It may have several plots, as in Losing Your Grip. Most [[cave crawl|cave-crawl]] adventures have multiple plots | What Aristotle called "the arrangement of the incidents," the plot of a work depends upon how its episodes are presented. A work of IF may have only one possible plot, as in Photopia. It may have several plots, as in Losing Your Grip. Most [[cave crawl|cave-crawl]] adventures have multiple plots because they have [[puzzle]]s that can be solved in a different order each time. Although a work like the usual play or novel can be said to have a plot, a work of IF has one or more potential plots that are only realized during an interaction. | ||
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* [http://jacl.game-host.org:8080/dfisher/ifgems/gems_4.html#4.1 Plot] and [http://jacl.game-host.org:8080/dfisher/ifgems/gems_4.html#4.2 Plot Twists] in the ''IF Gems'' review quotes collection (also available from the [http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/general-discussion/IFGems.zip IF Archive]). | |||
[[Category:Glossary]] | [[Category:Glossary]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:49, 28 March 2008
What Aristotle called "the arrangement of the incidents," the plot of a work depends upon how its episodes are presented. A work of IF may have only one possible plot, as in Photopia. It may have several plots, as in Losing Your Grip. Most cave-crawl adventures have multiple plots because they have puzzles that can be solved in a different order each time. Although a work like the usual play or novel can be said to have a plot, a work of IF has one or more potential plots that are only realized during an interaction.
-- nm - 15 Jul 2002
Links
- Plot and Plot Twists in the IF Gems review quotes collection (also available from the IF Archive).