Mobile gaming company Hexolabs recently created a 'choose your own adventure' style game
on YouTube that has become an instant hit.
The ability to use this to tell a story that revolves around policy or advocacy seems a particularly obvious leap.
What
I find most amazing about this is that most of the online world has
looked at YouTube and thought they understood what it was for, and yet
they missed a use that's almost 40 years old.
'Choose Your Own Adventure' as a storytelling and gaming paradigm is almost as old as me. Wikipedia cites the earliest use
of it in 1969 and then popularized in the 1970's with a series of books
where you made a choice and then turned to the page to continue the
story. Besides the books, there was a popular choose your own
adventure arcade video game called "Dragon's Lair" that I remember playing as a kid.
Next
time someone tells you about a new application, or a new website,
consider the fact that we clearly haven't found all the uses for the
ones we have.
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