Thursday 19 November 2009

Analysis of Gamebooks


Gamebooks are one of the early recent trends towards non-linearity. Seemingly everywhere around the world their markets have followed a similar pattern that resembles a bubble that dies after its burst.

Still they are an example of hypertext before the birth of WWW.

Chris Lewis from Expressive Intelligence Studio brought this great analysis of a series of gamebooks and their evolution in time. It is worth seeing, not only because of its outstanding visualisation.

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