- a branching structure
- this, that
- making it interesting by adding something to all states regardless of their place in the structure: an act of escape, an act of ignoring. why do this?
- making it anything by adding something without utilizing the structure
- flattening the structure, flatgames, kinetic novels
- a branching structure, a non-branching structure
- where the structure could branch but doesn't
- where the structure couldn't branch but does
- choices (artistic)
- choices
- many paths interwoven
- literal paths
- imagined paths
- unreal paths nonetheless experienced
- is a game all of these paths?
- no but yes
- consider the weapon's design: a retina scan, a fuel injector
- which weaponmaker takes responsibility? we are all part of the world
- many paths interwoven
superpositions
- states, variables, values,
- models, understandings,
- motivations, desires
astronaut
i am not you, now, but i could have been, could still be.