What is ButtonTalk?

ButtonTalk is a tool for making interactive stories.  It’s purpose is to let writers create interactive text as simply as possible.  You bring the ideas and the writing skills.  My job is to stay out of your way, while giving you the tools you need.  With ButtonTalk, you can build high quality finished programs based on interactive text.  And ButtonTalk also makes pages for the World Wide Web.  You don’t need programmers, musicians or visual artists.  It’s all about words.

I originally thought of ButtonTalk in terms of interactive fiction.  Traditional narrative is very linear, words-in-a-row, plot-line, and so on.  But what are the possibilities of interactive fiction?  What does plot mean in the context of reader choice?  What possibilities are raised by the first person nature of interactive drama?

ButtonTalk is intended as a tool to explore these questions.

Linhart, Stephen. (1996). About ButtonTalk™ 1.4.1. Electronic Document.

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Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II