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Remem­ber the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series?

Books that would allow you as the reader to basi­cally choose the path of the char­ac­ter — writ­ten in either a first or third per­son perspective.

For exam­ple, let’s say your char­ac­ter came to a point in the story wherein he or she had to choose whether or not they would tip a cow in the mid­dle of Farmer Tim’s Field. Imme­di­at­edly fol­low­ing the text would be some­thing along the lines of:

Will you either:

A) Tip the cow.
(please turn to page 23)

or

B) Decide not to tip the cow.
(please turn to page 99)

The fun in these books was re-reading them after reach­ing the end or if the char­ac­ter died as a result of your deci­sion. Par­tic­u­lary if you were will­ing to go through it again and see an alter­nate end­ing to the story.

See­ing that we live in a dig­i­tal age some peo­ple have cre­ated sim­i­lar con­cepts such as Nick Piekos’ (of Blam­bot) Dead Ends.

Dead Ends “is an inter­ac­tive story. At times you will have to decide the best course of action for the char­ac­ters. Make a good choice and you’ll live to read some more.“

http://www.visitdeadends.com/index2.html