Stories That Can't Be Told Linearly - YouTube
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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 - https://youtu.be/HgaBZNoD7nM 2 -…
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