ifMap: A Mapping System for Cooperatively Playing Interactive Fiction Online
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چکیده
Adventure games, and specifically the textual kind that are works of interactive fiction, are actually cooperative games. How people cooperate to solve them is not well understood, however. We describe ifMap, a system to allow interactors trying to solve a work of interactive fiction together online to create a shared map. The system is based on cooperative hypermedia and combines different hypertext domains. Developing this system has already led to some insights about how to best represent knowledge of an interactive fiction work’s simulated world; it should also enable better study of cooperation among interactors in the
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