The Lottery Ticket

The Lottery Ticket A fool and his money will soon depart, but a fool and his thoughts will lose more than that!

Stateless Writing by Anton Chekhov
Stateless Translation by Constance Garnett
Stateful Writing by Dorian Passer
Artistic Engineering by Dorian Passer

This stateless story was first published on March 1887.
This stateful story was first published on September 2022.

And a special thank you for beta reading goes out Mike Russo, Christopher Merriner, Amanda Walker, and Andrew Schultz.

Author Notes

This is another study in stateful media with an emphasis on narration-based agency. To avoid breaking a reader’s suspension of disbelief, this work eschews story-based agency.

What's this mean for you? An interactive fiction experience that is more "literary" and less "game" made by combining quintessential elements of parser-based, choice-based, chat-based, and templated-based works under a new theory of agency in stateful media.

This study in particular pioneers a novel method for detecting affective input feedback that is above the "just noticeable difference" threshold, as well as commences work on a pattern book of stance-based affective input propositions.

Accessibility

• Device light/dark mode
• Resizable/reflowable text
• High-contrast support
• Color-blind design
• Image alt text

Requirements

• Desktop, Laptop, Mobile, or Tablet
• Chrome, Brave, Edge, Chromium, Firefox, or Safari
• Keyboard, Mouse, or Controller

Offline Reading for Desktop or Laptop

• Press the "Run stateful narration" button
• Save the website to your device
• Open the html file in a supported browser to read

Legal Notice

The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov is in the public domain.

All other material is under copyright of Dorian Passer.