Re:Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’...
by ZeroGravitas on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:13AM
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I've not read it yet, but the pop-culture/horror writer (and film critic) Kim Newman has a choose your own adventure book called Life's Lottery that lets you make life desicions for the protagonist as he grows up starting from childhood in 1960s England. It gets good reviews on Amazon and his stuff is usually good.
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Re:Maps reveal the structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’...
by hyper_reality on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:37AM
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I highly recommend Life's Lottery. It's a nostalgic return to 80's Britain that should be entertaining even for anyone who didn't live through those years.
The fact that you control the choices of a person from childhood to adulthood, with astonishingly different outcomes depending on those choices, has the sublime effect of making you consider the direction your real life is going, and how your everyday trivial decisions shape it. Sometimes what appears to be a minor choice or even an evil decision can lead to a better outcome than the alternative.
New paperback and ebook editions were released a few years ago.