jigsaw puzzle

Description (in English)

Pieces is a puzzle story. To read the work, you assemble the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, each piece yielding a portion of narrative. Under your hands, several lives take shape in earnest if sometimes wobbly and unprepossessing assemblages. The manner in which you put the pieces together affects the course of the characters’ lives, different configurations resulting in different outcomes.

(Source: Author's description at Wordcircuits)

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Technical notes

The text of this work is stored as XML in a format that is a prototype for a standard meant to allow easier authoring, dissemination, and preservation of interactive and multimedia literature. The format includes provisions for structured grouping of text components and the conditional displaying of text.Â