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Originally Posted by ApK
But how about we recommend some present-tense works to help unscramble his brain?
rcentros, how do you feel about second-person present-tense narratives? The narration from "The Whistler" old-time radio show comes to mind:
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Only really a success in "plot your own adventure" type books, or computer games.
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Forest
You stand in a clearing in the deep jungle. Obscured by centuries of overgrowth and dim sunlight is a ruined temple of some sort. Whatever details there may have been on the stone blocks have long since been worn away. There is a single, solitary entryway leading downward.
>examine temple
You can't see any such thing.
>go north
You can't go that way.
>inventory
You are carrying nothing.
>say hello, sailor
There is no reply.
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From
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Beginn..._with_Inform_7
Reminds me of the start of "Return to Zork". Earlier Zork 1 inspired by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
It's misnamed Interaction Fiction. It's a text adventure.
"you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
As an aside, there is a mobi directive that blocks turning the page, so I used Mobipocket creator to make a text adventure with links and anchors replacing "Pick up stick: go to page 72. Ignore stick: go to page 67". But I decided a game engine I'd written or even a web page with client side image map (to click on objects) and some javascript was far better.