Choose your own Adventure
In this section (1 month), students map, write, and publish a choose your own adventure book.
Amazing analysis of CYOA games with obsessive charts and animations of 13 choose your own adventure books. The info porn alone in mapping the narrative branching of these classics is worth the price of admission.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DirectedGraph.html
utilize directed graphs to map branches
vocab word for GATE. use directed graphs to map the branching
Checked out the Game book engine. Pretty simple syntax with the #hash symbol being the only tag you need to know.
Get tricky when you need to use and save a plain text file. I used notepad to no result. Used Emerald editor i think to save a pure txt file which then I renamed with the .gamebook extension. Kind of a pain in the ass. but it's read and parsed by the gamebook engine.
So kids can write and parse these books.
Ultimate vision is to have them published in their own little books. or to print and bind them.
Interactive Fiction
Scratch
Stickman Stuff
pivot stickman animator