Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[Graham Nelson <graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk>]

In article <580.920T2537T9994842ghira@mistral.co.uk>, Adam Atkinson
<URL:mailto:ghira@mistral.co.uk> wrote:
> They look like output from JRP1's "groan" program. The game names,
> puzzles, solutions and objects are in many cases taken from real
> games, but all mixed up.

Much as "Eliza" was a Rogerian psychotherapist, "Groan" provided
a sort of artificially intelligent Claude Levi-Strauss, offering
structuralist analyses of all literary forms.  The classic
"groan with drwho" option, for instance, used a database of all
170 Dr Who plots arranged in a Vladimir Propp-like fashion in
order to explore the Derridean jouissance of a random story in
Dr Who-space, piecing together fragments such as "but the Master
escapes in a hovercraft" with an almost... an almost authorial
bricolage.

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Graham Nelson | graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk | Oxford, United Kingdom