Gutsby wrote:

It's an IOS game by Peter Jackson. It's pretty much a CYOA-book, but it can keep track of all kinds of shit because it's on a little computer - so it's a really complex example of the form. You have a simple little combat system that makes you slide your guy around to defend or attack, gorgeous presentation drizzling goofy fantasy writing all over you, and a torrent of choices to make as you shove your little miniature around a beautifully rendered leather map. As I was playing it I thought that I'd really like to play a lot of IF-games like this - then I realized that there's probably a crazy war going on about the necessity of precise text input in the genre. Tell me about it, ICJ! If you were given a really simple editor that allowed you to set up visual nodes and shit, turn your parser into a staggered conversation tree - would you take it? There has to be a lot of theory behind all of this!