{"id":670,"date":"2020-09-24T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/?p=670"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:31:07","slug":"jacque-the-fatalist-2020-english-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Jacque the Fatalist (2020) &#8211; English translation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Jacques the Fatalist<\/em>, a tale of fate, love and sex, is finally available in English. It\u2019s an interactive adaptation of the XVIIIth century novel by Denis Diderot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Play it here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the App Store : <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXtMCYWoTd?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/jacques-the-fatalist\/id1512693274#?platform=iphone<\/a> <\/li><li>On the Play Store: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kCOsIzMThc?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.Absurdus.JacquesEn&amp;hl=en_US<\/a><\/li><li>In a browser: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L58OXajFC5?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lablablab.net\/jacques_en\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GameKeys, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gameskeys.net\/underrated-role-playing-games-to-play-on-ios\/\">Underrated Role Playing Games to Play on IOS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inspiration for this project came from a discussion between Jonathan Lessard (author) and Quinn Kybartas about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emshort\">Emily Short&#8217;s<\/a> observation that some dialogues in IF are like landscapes to be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point was to see if we could do something like the walking simulator of conversations: no particular objective, only the pleasure of following your curiosity for what someone has to say. We called this \u201cconversational landscape\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time I was rereading Jacques le Fataliste, a humoristic philosophical tale by Diderot (co-author of the Encyclopedia). I was struck by the modernity and nonlinear nature of the text. It is almost as if it had been designed with interactivity in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The structure of the adaptation is that Jacques has many parallel stories to tell that are authored as a chain of chunks. At any given point, the player can switch seamlessly (digress) to any open thread of conversation (he does that all the time in the novel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this diagram, the player can choose fromof the dotted line chunks as follow-up input. Contrarily to a dialogue tree, you do not need to define the links between the nodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_diagram.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-671\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_diagram.png 874w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_diagram-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_diagram-768x663.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the issues is that if you want to jump back to a topic you left off a while back, there needs to be some form of reactivation of the subject. So for each \u201cchunk\u201d, I have a cold and hot line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example: <br>[Hot]: Where did they all go? (we know the player knows who \u201cthey\u201d is) <br>[Cold]: By the way, where had the peasants that hosted you and their children gone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep track of the \u201cwarmth\u201d of each topic and present the three warmest as options for the player. For this I was actually inspired by gmail\u2019s automatic response propositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_interface.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-672\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_interface.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_interface-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_interface-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_interface-768x1366.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything is authored in Excel, with each tab representing one of the topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel-1024x603.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel-768x453.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel-1536x905.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jacques_excel.png 1833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end I still think it&#8217;s more interesting to read the book, but I&#8217;m quite happy with the design for this kind of conversation. It could probably be better exploited with a narrative that would be tailored specifically for it rather than adapting an existing text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques the Fatalist, a tale of fate, love and sex, is finally available in English. It\u2019s an interactive adaptation of the XVIIIth century novel by Denis Diderot. Play it here: On the App Store : https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/jacques-the-fatalist\/id1512693274#?platform=iphone On the Play Store: https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.Absurdus.JacquesEn&amp;hl=en_US In a browser: https:\/\/lablablab.net\/jacques_en\/ Coverage: GameKeys, Underrated Role Playing Games to Play on IOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}