Choosing your own adventure, digitally
On the CBC Arts site, Sarah Liss writes about a new startup from a B.C. software developer. Protagonize, she explains, is “an online community devoted to the creation of ‘addventures,’ round-robin-style fiction in which users create and develop interactive stories.” It launched late in December, and so far, writes Liss, most users are creating stories in the Internet-friendly fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres.
However, this probably doesn’t represent the future of writing or anything. Creator Nick Bouton says, “Fun is the entire aim of the site,” while Liss describes it as “more of a Facebook-style community-interaction hub than a locus for creative development.”
