NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
I suppose play along gameshows were the ideal medium for interactive TV, indeed Challenge were doing that extensively at one point and when Smartphones/tablets came along with their apps, it was a perfect medium.
For interactive fiction, yes it is quite reminiscent of "Choose your own Adventure" and I suppose it can be expensive if you film all the alternate paths that are then not seen. It's documented that Tim Child, creator of Knighmare, used to plan the quests out for that from start to finish across the three levels of the game and behind every door, and of course it had been a complete waste of time planning levels two and three if somebody "died" after three rooms. It was later changed to planning on a per-level basis.
For interactive fiction, yes it is quite reminiscent of "Choose your own Adventure" and I suppose it can be expensive if you film all the alternate paths that are then not seen. It's documented that Tim Child, creator of Knighmare, used to plan the quests out for that from start to finish across the three levels of the game and behind every door, and of course it had been a complete waste of time planning levels two and three if somebody "died" after three rooms. It was later changed to planning on a per-level basis.