Stories That Can't Be Told Linearly
Nonlinear narratives are stories that you can't fully understand by consuming normally - simply going through from start to end doesn't work. In this video I describe five different types of such narratives, what their advantages are, where they show up, and stories that can only be told by using them. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Branching Narratives 11:43 Looping Narratives 16:36 Meta-Narratives 26:12 Recursive Meta-Narratives 35:50 Combinatorial Narratives 39:02 Using All Five Together 43:06 Outro Combinatorial videos: 1 - • 1 2 - • 2 3 - • 3 4 - • 4 5 - • 5 6 - • 6 7 - • 7 8 - • 8 9 - • 9 0 - • 0 As ol' Thaidakar once said, "There's always another secret" In this case said secret can be found in the Combinatorial section.

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