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Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 2 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 923
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>VERBOSE -- Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction Page
When you're reading a book, you may read third-, first-, or even second-person accounts of a particular entity's exploits, and with sufficiently effective writing and characterization, you may even identify with that entity quite strongly despite its non-human traits, but no matter what you are still watching that entity from a distance. IF, however, literalizes the process of identification one step further. Not only does the prose put you in someone else's head, you actually have to guide the choices of that someone. I'd submit that when a reader is compelled to guide a character's actions, especially if there are puzzles involved, that reader will try to think like that character would think. When this happens, the identification process has reached a place where static fiction can rarely take it.
It is exactly this place that The Djinni Chronicles limns with skill and imagination.
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v.1: 16-Oct-2007 01:50 - IFDB
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