You take the baby and kill the mother. You domesticate it and it becomes a valuable resource to the kingdom. You become king using its power, and tales of your fearsome power are told for generations.\nThe Dragon Tamer.\n\nTHE END
Did you ever curl up with a book? Or read a book past bedtime and risk getting in trouble? Did you read popular books like Harry Potter and Captain Underpants and talk about it with your friends? \nEven if you didn't do any of this, the point is books were a part of our childhood. And they're going through a change from physical to digital. \nBut how do you feel about it?\n\n[[E-books litty|E-books]]\n[[Regular books fivever|Physical Books Woo]]
Years later, the baby dragon appears, much more powerful than its mother. It destroys the kingdom and the King blames you for leaving the baby alive.\nYou have dishonored your family.\n\nTHE END
One example of her argument is the evolution of books.\n\n[[Book lovers this way.|Book Lovers]]\n[[Others that way.|Others]]\n
Did you think the title was\n\n[[away with books]]\nor \n[[a way with books]]
He's dodging every swipe, he parries to the left. You counter to the right, you catch him in the neck. You're chopping off his head now.\nYou have just decapitated Shia Labeouf.\n\nTHE END
Awaywithbooks by Keolani Williams\n\n\nThe last reading of this semester was "awaywithwords" by Anne Frances Wysocki. She discusses how acceptable materials change with situation and time, reflecting societal standards at that time. She states that it is up to the people to combat and oppose or perpetuate these conventions.\n\n[[Ok...we know this?|My example]]
[[This kills the man.|BOOKS]]
You slowly move towards the sleeping dragon. How will you kill it?\n\n[[Off with his head!]]\n[[Stab him in the hizzart.]]
You're walking in the woods. There's no one around, and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him, \n\n[[Shia Labeouf.]]
Readers could also type their choice, but that would be more like a text game. But Clicking Buttons is a common feature of modern interactive fiction. You see what I'm getting at right?\n\n[[The point of this presentation was... -Clicks Button-|Button Click]]
Your slice off the dragon's head and bring it home.\nYou become a hero. There's a day named for you and you become a Lord.\nALL HAIL THE HERO.\n\n[[THE END]]\n
I would cheat and read different endings and skip stuff.\nAnd I would keep dying and never got the good ending when I actually read it the right way. \nI'm not the only one right?\n\n[[Alright back to the point.|Change]]
The dragon wakes due to your loud footsteps, beating heart and overall cowardice.\nYou're toasted and eaten.\nYay.\n\nTHE END
[[You're a lame but you may move forward anyway.|Book Lovers]]\n
Awaywithbooks\n
I have to agree a little bit. I like having an actual books and an actual library in the actual world. I'm just so use to it, I don't know.\nWhether you like it for the reasons above or others, I think we're gonna have to accept e-books sooner or later. With the overall move towards them, we won't have to a choice to have regular books.\nKinda sucks.\n\n[[Books>E-books anyway.|BOOKS]]
Of course, being a child of the digital age, e-books are popular. We're use to using technology, accessing the internet to gain information, and are use to the ease of use that these devices come with. Books become customizable digitally - we can change the font and size and the colors. Even older people who would knock it like e-books because they're easier for them to read.\n\n[[That's why I said e-books litty.|BOOKS]]
Those Choose Your Own Story books would make you flip to different pages depending on your choice. You couldn't really remember all the choices you made and it was really easy to cheat. \nWith e-books and digital stories, cheating isn't an option, which can make it really repetitive if you want to get different endings. Or keep dying. Especially if you keep dying.\n\n[[-Dies-|Death]]\n[[I WAnt to LIVE.|Liveth]]
Years later, a familiar dragon appears, almost identical to the one you destroyed, but much more powerful. But you cut off its head! How could it be alive!?! It destroys the kingdom and the King blames you, believing you lied about the dragon somehow. \nYou have dishonored your family.\n\nTHE END
I wish living were as easy in those books. \nWith interactive fiction, authors can make an inventory and have a diary for the players to remember their choices. There can be animations and sounds, and interactive fiction can be more like a game. And instead of turning pages, it's as easy as clicking a button.\n\n[[-Clicks a button-|Button Clicked]]
You are a knight who is exploring a cave to kill a dragon that has plagued the kingdom for some time.\nAs you round the corner, you see a figure far in the darkness.\nAnd as you move closer you realize it's the dragon you've been searching for.\nIt's asleep.\n\n[[Don't give a fawk I'm running anyway fuck this.|Run]]\n[[Gonna kill em in his sleep.|Kill Em]]
You leave the dragon alone and the next day it destroys your village. \nYOU HAD ONE JOB! ONE\nYou have dishonored your family.\n\nTHE END
You're sneaking up behind him, strangling superstar Shia Labeouf. Fighting for your life with Shia Labeouf, wrestling a knife from Shia Labeouf, stab it in his kidney. \nSafe at last from Shia Labeouf. \n\nTHE END
You move toward its heart. As you lift your sword, you notice a smaller beast next to its wing.\nA baby dragon.\nSo you're about to kill a mother and baby.\nCheezus what will you do?\n\n[[Kill the mother and leave the baby.]]\n[[Grab the baby and run! You can make a monster of it.]]
He's following you about 30 feet back. He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint. He's gaining on you. \n\n[[Shia Labeouf]]
INTERACTIVE FICTION! :D\nYup, you were right.\nDid you read those Choose Your Own Story books when you were younger?\nI love Goosebumps, especially the one with that Mummy, it was my fave.\n\n[[I know exactly what you're talking about. Turn to page 32.|Page 32]]\n[[How does it change?|Change]]
You move toward its head and lift your sword high above its head. The dragon's scales shine in the light of your torch.\nIt looks beautiful, majestic almost. And it's asleep.\nYou sure you want to do this?\n\n[[I will be a hero!]]\n[[This is kind of cowardly.]]
Ah, answering the question would've been fun.\nBye, and thanks!\n\nTHE END
Ya know, similar to interactive fiction, you've clicked buttons and made small choices, though due to time constraints there's not much variety or a different ending.\nYes, to present my essay on the evolution of books and interactive fiction I made an interactive story. Kinda lame. But also kinda fun.\nBeing an author, making a digital interactive story was much easier than having to make a physical one.\nSo I guess the ease isn't just for the readers, but the authors as well.\nThanks for going through this presentation.\nI hope you enjoyed it.\n\n[[Much cool, such end.|Bad End]]\n[[Unless you wanna answer a question real quick.|Question]]\n
No matter which you prefer, you have to admit e-books open up more options and allow the author far more creativity. Instead of pop-out illustrations, authors can make animations to go along with their books. Instead of pressing a word with a special pen and a specific cartridge in a book device for audio to play like in our childhood Leapfrog books, a child can click a word on the e-book and have a specific audio play and a specific illustration show up. \nOne genre is completely revolutionized by the increase of e-books. Guess...\n\n[[Why do you care about books so much man...|INTERACTIVE]]
You kill the dragon and bring home its head.\nYou become a hero. There's a day named for you and you become a Lord.\nALL HAIL THE HERO.\n\n[[THE End]]\n
Keolani Williams
You're looking for your car, but you're all turned around. He's almost upon you now and you can see there's blood on his face! \nMy god, there's blood everywhere! \n\n[[Running for your life|From Shia Labeouf]]\n[[He's brandishing a knife.|It's Shia Labeouf]]\n