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Blog Entry: Choose Your Own Adventure
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Blog Entry: Choose Your Own Adventure
2005 September 24, 11:10 PM
Many years ago (in the early 1980s), I tried to "map" the Choose
Your Own Adventure book The Mystery of Chimney Rock
(figuring out which pages led to which other pages) using pen and
paper. I remember starting over several times because the map always
looked so ugly. The one other thing I remembered was that page 37 (the
"death by cheese-and-crackers" page) was "unusual" in that, no matter
how I drew the map, it was always isolated from the other pages. This
afternoon (inspired by http://www.ethblue.com/cyoa/altairlarge.html) I
wrote a computer program (using other existing tools, of course) that
mapped "Chimney Rock" and a few other Choose Your Own Adventure
books. The preliminary version is
far from great, but after I do a few more and add color-coding, I'll
probably create a subsite for these. I find it strangely satisfying
that the automatic program that created this map also isolated
page 37. Is spending an afternoon of programming time to solve a
childhood task (I had to dig the yellowing Choose Your Own
Adventure books out of storage-- I haven't read them in ages!) a
complete waste of time? Or is it the meaning of life?
