Time, forking paths and saved games

I lingered, naturally, on the sentence: I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths. Almost instantly, I understoond: ‘the garden of forking paths’ was the chaotic novel; the phrase ‘the various future (not to all)’ suggested to me the forking in time, not in space. A broad rereading of [...]

Montfort, “Continuous Paper”

Players also used paper in their adventuring. Tracy Kidder noted that one Adventure player’s desk held “roughly drawn maps. They consisted of circles, inside of which were scrawled names such as Dirty Passage, Hall of Mists, Hall of the Mountain King … Webs of lines connected the circles, and each line was labeled, some with points of [...]

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