Talk:Choose Your Own Adventure

Question for the admins: When listing examples from gamebooks (relevant edit here) do they get their own section, get sorted under Literature or what?

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I've been sorting Gamebooks as a subsection of Tabletop Games, myself. But I can see the logic of sorting them under Literature.

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I don't know if this genre is limited to only literature, I mean, could old computer text adventures count as Choose Your Own Adventure? Or visual novels? I think they might all be considered "interactive fiction".

I feel the ones that use dice (or cards if any exist) as an RNG (beyond 50/50s) and (especially) include stats for the hero definitely belong under tabletop games. No strong preferences for those that don't.

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This is admittedly outside my wheelhouse, but I think Agiletek's got the right idea on sorting the more RPG-inclined gamebooks under Tabletop Gaming.

I'd prefer to see all gamebooks listed in the same place for consistency.

What that place is... appears to be Tabletop Games for now, but we've only been having this discussion for a half-day as I post this.

Tabletop Games is where I've always felt they should be.

Yeah, Tabletop Games makes sense at a glance, but the CYOA books I'm most familiar with usually didn't require any significant RNG or any outside tools unless they were doing a thing of some sort. The Nintendo Adventure Books used a scorecard for each one, so they're likelier imo to have wanted other stuff as well, but I've never read them - the Goosebumps CYOA are ones that I've actually experienced, albeit as a child, and from my recollection typically didn't need it at all.

Sorry for the delay in getting to this; past few days have been Hell.

Anyway, TVT uses a Gamebooks section, and that's how I'd prefer to roll.

I wouldn't want to limit it to just gamebooks, so I'd say that other forms of literature like the CYOA. There is also the option of media like those Netflix series where your choices decide how the story progresses. Other media would include video games where most of the SMT games or visual novels could be included.

"those Netflix series where your choices decide how the story progresses"

I have genuinely never heard of those.

Here is what I am talking about: https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/2869704

I've said this on another discussion, but what I do when this happens (e.g. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is made by a Japanese studio, so it goes under anime, but it's also a film, so it can also go under film) is I just choose whatever category comes first alphabetically. In this case, I would actually go with the literature category.