Got into an odd talk with my dad, admitably he is drunk and laying on the couch ready to pass out at any second, but do you count Chose Your Own Adventure Books and Solo Role Playing Game Books as Books? My dad doesn’t but it may just be because he’s drunk and isn’t 100% awear of our convo but he raised the point that a [traditional] book has a single story line unless it’s an anthology with one ending, it’s not interactive. Its one solid chunk. You don’t go around editing the story as you go, you just read what it shows.
But these are written forms of media, they have specific paths already set long in advance and while they are multiple endings, they are written in ink.
I know he’s drunk but sometimes a drunk person’s thoughts are something they always believed and others think the same. So I want to see what yall think. Yall count them?
by CameoShadowness
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cyoab sure, srpgbs not really. maybe it’s my experience from solo rpgs but a lot of them involve more journaling, so it’s more time spent writing than reading. it’s like putting in the dnd players handbook as something you read. like, you actually read that, cover to cover? why??
Never thought about it 🤔. Def a grey area. I suppose, despite being printed on paper, they might fall under the Interactive Fiction game umbrella. Some IF games really aren’t any different than a SRPG or CYOA and I’ve never considered them to be ebooks. So…. game? But, still crossover media