Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales

What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure (yes, that's spelled right), a very specific type of collaborative fiction. Early forms of this on the web date back over a decade, when Snoot.com popularized a site called "Choose Your Own Schizophrenia", an collaborative fiction site popular in the mid-to-late '90s. Of course, this all dates back to the old Choose Your Own Adventure series that started back in 1979 and ran until 1998, published by Bantam Books.

How It Works:

An addventure is a type of online interactive fiction that combines aspects of round-robin stories and Choose Your Own Adventure-style tales. Like a round-robin story, an addventure is a form of collaborative fiction in which many authors contribute to a story, each writing discrete segments. However, like a gamebook, the resulting narrative is non-linear, allowing authors to branch out in different directions after each segment of the story. The result is a continually growing work of hypertext fiction.


Protagonize would like to update this concept, not only with the contributions of the users, but with a bit of web 2.0 mixed in there as well. While there are countless websites out there that have an ongoing, round-the-robin formats for collaborative stories. Protagonize puts some handy tracking tools in there so that you can better stay afloat with the stories you like and those that you create. It’s an approach similar to coComment: you’ve created content on a third-party site, and it’s interactive on multiple levels. Others can respond to your content, build on it, and take things in an entirely different direction.
More at:http://www.protagonize.com/