I was just … engaging this map of the solar system: “if the moon was the size of a single pixel”… joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pix … ystem.html
The experience of endlessly actively scrolling right, occasionally having to backtrack left when accidentally skipping past the breadcrumbs of poetry, was reminiscent of nothing so much as dealing with Twine narratives which demand shallow interaction – click to continue – without offering any more sophisticated interactions like reader choices.
This definitely isn’t a “game”, but it doesn’t seem any less “interactive fiction” than, for instance, my father’s long long legs. Am I off-base here?
(This makes me start to worry where a line might be drawn or if we might see our next masterwork of IF written in the filenames of an MS-DOS directory listing piped through |more)