: Re: What does/would it mean to code a novel? I have a few interests, and among them belong fiction, math and computer science, and so naturally I like to imagine/think about the possibility of

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What about interactive novels - e.g. Visual Novels, a genre rather popular in Japan?

You can certainly code these. Western world knew these as "text adventure games" but they usually featured a map of locations between which you could go. Visual Novels, OTOH, read like a book, with points where you make a decision. They are more similar to "Make your own adventure" books, but frequently surpass these in means of complexity by strides, most complex of them often containing thousands of decision nodes, many of them implicit - not obvious to the player, but resulting from prior choices.

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