# The Lottery Ticket

## How To Play

- Open index.html with a supported browser

## Browser Requirements

- Chrome, Brave, Edge, Chromium

## Accessibility

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

## Credits

- Stateless Writing by Anton Chekhov
- Stateful Writing by Dorian Passer
- Artistic Engineering by Dorian Passer

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

## Publication Dates

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

## 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.

## Legal Notice

- The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov is in the public domain.
- All other material is under copyright of Dorian Passer.