Map a choice with a consequence
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An original local browser story with six passages, three endings, meaningful choice consequences, reachable-state tests and a complete text reading alternative.
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What to include
- Write six complete passages and three reachable endings.
- Give choices different narrative consequences with stable targets.
- Trace hasMap and history consistently and reset all state.
- Run or honestly scope four path/invalid choice/restart checks.
- Deliver working relative assets and all-route text companion.
Review and revise
Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.
- Narrative: choices affect later text/outcomes.
- Continuity: incoming facts and item effects are coherent.
- Engine: stable target/restart/path checks are correct.
- Access/evidence: reading alternative and actual test scope are clear.
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The idea in everyday life
Use six passages and three endings to keep the project inspectable. Draw nodes for passages and arrows for choices; give every arrow a label naming what the reader does. Different wording that sends every choice through identical events may be a stylistic choice, but it does not demonstrate this course’s consequential branch assignment.
A reader choice matters when something later changes.
Map a choice with a consequence — worked practice
A reader choice matters when something later changes.
Original graph: START→ARCHIVE or GARDEN. ARCHIVE→OPEN or CLOSED. GARDEN→CLOSED or RETURN. That is six distinct passages and four complete start-to-ending paths. Two paths reach CLOSED, but OPEN and RETURN offer different outcomes. All routes are fictional; no outdoor trip is required.
1. 1.1 Map
Draw the six named nodes and four two-step routes from the supplied graph. Mark terminal nodes as endings.
You should see: Six passages include three terminal endings.
2. 1.2 Map
Label every arrow with the supplied reader action rather than only yes/no. Check which choice changes later place/result.
You should see: Each arrow has an action label.
3. 1.3 Map
Count unique passages separately from complete routes. A shared ending is one passage, even when two routes reach it.
You should see: Four paths are not four different endings.
4. 1.4 Map
Change GARDEN’s return choice to lead to OPEN without a map and flag the resulting continuity/design problem before writing code.
You should see: The changed route conflicts with the map-dependent ending.
What to finish
A six-node choice map and consequence notes.
Watch for this
Counting repeated visits/routes as new passages or treating cosmetic labels as consequences.
How can I tell I understand it?
You can trace every choice to a later changed event.
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Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01
Read own object keys, case-sensitive property access and object literal semantics; original story data/code supplied.
Access: Public page text or PDF was opened and read through the web reader on 2026-10-01; no signup required for reading.
Reuse: Linked for further study. All LifeStarter scenarios, samples, assets and assessments are original; no source exercises or artwork are copied.
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01
Read the public character section and its discussion of character/event relationships through the web reader; linked source exercises are not reproduced.
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