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Map of choose your own adventure book

March 8, 2008 6:34am

A few people have mentioned the CYOA Cave of Time map. That's mine. I created it as an example of a narrative map (along the lines of what Marie Laure-Ryan describes as "structures of interactive narrative" in Narrative as Virtual Reality). The map was part of a project I assigned to my students at George Mason University; you can see the full Choose Your Own Adventure Analysis assignment on my course website.

I must add that my assignment, and the whole idea of mapping a CYOA book was adopted from a very similar idea by Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum at the University of Maryland, College Park. I imagine that most of the CYOA maps you'll find online were inspired by Matt's original assignment.

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