All hail the descendant of the choose-your-own-adventure book. This is the Choosatron, a digital storytelling platform in a cardboard box, which fuses arcade gaming with interactive fiction.
When building version one of the Choosatron in May 2012, Minneapolis-based software developer Jerry Belich shunned all digital outputs: "Otherwise, why not make an app?" Belich, 30, knew he'd found the perfect antithesis to LCDs when he discovered a thermal printer on a maker site. "It just clicked that if it printed as you played, by the time you finished you would have this complete transcript of your story."
By: David Cornish,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/07/play/storybook-in-a-box
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