1) The alternative non-CYOA name that some people use for CYOAs is MYC - Make Your Choice.
2) Stories controlled by external RNG systems without meta elements are common. There are a lot of LITRPGS that take the rules of some real game and roll dice the same way you would in a normal game (i know examples for DND5, Pathfinder, GURPS and Mage The Ascension). Separately, there are "solo play" tools on top of existing systems, that add additional RNG to the plot instead of normal execution mechanics, such as this one for GURPS, starting in 2016 https://thecollaborativegamer.wordpress.com/the-adventures-of-temian-fell/session-reports/
3) LITRPG, MYCs, Celestial Forge, and everything else of that type all fall under a big umbrella i call Logistic/Mechanical fiction. And I would now link my big essay about it if i had it finished, but unfortunately I don't. I will link it here when i finish it.
I am pretty sure there used to be "modern" cyoas in 2013, mhm, sufficient velocity has a thread from 2014 september I think some of the ones posted there qualifies for old old ones. I wish you talked about actual cyoas. Thats one genre of fiction that I always thought was very modern alongside hypertext fiction.
I was sure I was missing details about CYOAs (no personal experience beyond reading fics based on the more recent ones). My main problem is 4chan archives are super spotty when you go that far back, and every 2013 image I saw looked like the more simple types, the kind that don't generate stories.
Please do let me know if you find anything earlier than mid-2014 and I'll add it into the article.
1) The alternative non-CYOA name that some people use for CYOAs is MYC - Make Your Choice.
2) Stories controlled by external RNG systems without meta elements are common. There are a lot of LITRPGS that take the rules of some real game and roll dice the same way you would in a normal game (i know examples for DND5, Pathfinder, GURPS and Mage The Ascension). Separately, there are "solo play" tools on top of existing systems, that add additional RNG to the plot instead of normal execution mechanics, such as this one for GURPS, starting in 2016 https://thecollaborativegamer.wordpress.com/the-adventures-of-temian-fell/session-reports/
3) LITRPG, MYCs, Celestial Forge, and everything else of that type all fall under a big umbrella i call Logistic/Mechanical fiction. And I would now link my big essay about it if i had it finished, but unfortunately I don't. I will link it here when i finish it.
I am pretty sure there used to be "modern" cyoas in 2013, mhm, sufficient velocity has a thread from 2014 september I think some of the ones posted there qualifies for old old ones. I wish you talked about actual cyoas. Thats one genre of fiction that I always thought was very modern alongside hypertext fiction.
I was sure I was missing details about CYOAs (no personal experience beyond reading fics based on the more recent ones). My main problem is 4chan archives are super spotty when you go that far back, and every 2013 image I saw looked like the more simple types, the kind that don't generate stories.
Please do let me know if you find anything earlier than mid-2014 and I'll add it into the article.