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[A Black Falcon]

Your points are so completely asinine that it's difficult to come up with the words to express my shock over how dumb it sounds. Text describing a picture is the same as a picture? And then you go on and make points about things that I never said anything about. Yes, CYOA is a book with branching storylines, or an "adventure book" if you want to call it that. But a video game if you read on a computer screen? NO! This is exactly how this whole conversation happened:

I've repeated the same things five hundred times in this arguement, and you still just fundamentally don't seem to understand what I am trying to say... argh... maybe it'd be easier in chat, if you were ever on...

Look, I didn't say that text is identical to a picture. I very clearly explained how it was not, actually... but I said that while it's clearly a bigger jump than from 2d to 3d it's not so huge that it should not be considered a form of displaying games as you seem to be suggesting by saying that it's a totally different category.

And as for CYOA... I have explained this TEN TIMES including twice in this thread I don't think that CYOA as a BOOK is a computer game, obviously! I said that if CYOA was made into a GAME it'd be an adventure game. As in, if it was in the style of a text-based adventure game -- each 'page' would be displayed on the screen, then you'd type in your choice of response, then you'd get the next one, etc... in some of those books you'd have to deal with other kinds of puzzles or inventory (I have several CYOA-style books where you have items you had to choose where to use) too. THAT would be a CYOA adventure game. That is what I mean by 'a PDF wouldn't be a game'. Does this explain it better?

There have been rudimentary adventure games made like this, actually... we have one where the whole game is just choosing dialog options (though it's a graphical game with speech and everything, the only innteractivity is choosing what you say/do, just like a CYOA book) and seeing where the story goes (for children obviously, but so are most CYOA books...). Same thing, and it's definitely an adventure game.