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TED. Clickable Poems. What is Hypertext? Low Probability of Racoons - Hypertext. Hypertext. This paper was refereed by the Journal of Electronic Publishing's peer reviewers. This article was originally published as hypertext, and is best viewed in its original format, which is available on our website. Because today's technology does not allow us to guarantee its long-term availability in the original format, we display here the preservation-quality copy, which is displayed in linear form. Narrative languishes as the unsolved puzzle of hypertext. Linked presentation as we know it today — a navigation menu, a table of contents, a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) — suits informational material such as technical manuals, government documents, and most scientific research papers. These presentation formats do little to enhance narrative forms, however.

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Hypertext stories shown at “Random Blends” exhibition « Interactive Story. A selection of hypertext stories written in the HypeDyn hypertext authoring tool will be shown at the CNM “Random Blends” exhibition this coming week.

Hypertext stories shown at “Random Blends” exhibition « Interactive Story

Here are the details of the exhibition: The description of the works is as follows: “Closure is, as in any fiction, a suspect quality, although here it is made manifest. When the story no longer progresses, or when it cycles, or when you tire of the paths, the experience of reading ends… There is no simple way to say this.” (Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story) Fragments is a collection of short hypertext fictions written by students in NM3222 Interactive Storytelling. . - Stories – Kow Wei Man, “No Turning Back”Kua Yong Ern Shane, “Mirror, Mirror”Kua Yong Ern Shane, “The Emperor’s Guide to the Galactic Empire”Lye Zhi Le Gifford Justin, “Two Sides”Ong Yit Sin, “The Last Click”Rosmayati Tay Shieh Ting, “When one candle extinguishes”Sooty Heng Ee Wen, “Voyage” - HypeDyn implementation – Alex Mitchell, Ruchi Bajoria and Zeng Qiang Like this: Hypertext, and how it blows my mind. Fractured Fairy Tales. Hypertext as an architecture for fiction By Jonathan Wallace jw@bway.net Hypertext is a perfect environment in which to create fiction which breaks the linear, chronological flow of most print work.

Fractured Fairy Tales

To illustrate what I mean, I will pick a simple form of possible hypertext fiction, which I will call the triangle, and compare it to two print predecessors. (Other shapes are possible too. I have written a hypertext square, Brooklyn of Dreams, and a "hypertextspace" disorderly as the Web itself, Kazoo Concerto. The triangle would consist of three hypertext stories with overlapping subject matter which could be read in any order.

A perfect subject matter for a hypertext triangle would be a human triangle--two men and one woman, for example, with confusion and deception in their relations. The author now has the opportunity to create effects in each story for which the cause must be sought in the others. Necromundus Hypertext Stories - OtherVerse Wiki. Hypercompendia » MORE HYPERTEXT STORIES. This is to separate out hypertext work from the 100 Days Project (Summer 09) which included a hypertext written every day for 100 days.

Hypercompendia » MORE HYPERTEXT STORIES

Those stories can be found here: One Hundred Hypertext Stories October 8th, 2009 – National Poetry Day (UK) Decided to do a little hypertext poetry in honor of the British Poetry and Poets: The Wise Leaf When I should have been working, I wrote up a quick poem in Tinderbox, exported it to html, cheated by picking a css color theme from the 100 Days group, ran outside and took a couple pictures of leaves, ran them through Photoshop mainly for cropping, stuck them in the poem templates, uploaded it to this site and fixed whatever I’d done wrong.

FictionLand Hypertext Stories. Eastgate: Serious Hypertext. Disappearing Rain. Hypertext. Hypertext and Hypermedia: An Overview.