The first time I played the tabletop game Fiasco, it wasn't the story my friends and I made that blew me away. It was the realization that I had just experienced the limitless possibilities of collaborative writing, that the novels I loved featured just one way their narratives could have played out. Alice could have transformed the Mad Tea Party into Wonderland's first organic tea shop. Don Quixote could have devolved into a windmill-killer for hire. Later I realized the similarities between tabletop games and ways novelists challenge their narrative choices, from literary constraints to automatic writing to William Burroughs' cutup method.

Sign up for our newsletter to not miss out on tomorrow's game-changers for your industry. "You are the man who will kill your father and marry your mother." Yep–it's time to ask the AI the weird questions again. I don't know if you have ever heard the story about Oedipus from the Greek mythology. In it, the unfortunate Oedipus ask the oracle in Delphi who he is. The oracle gives him the cryptic answer that he is the man who will kill his father and marry his mother.

Sign up for our newsletter to not miss out on tomorrow's game-changers for your industry. "You are the man who will kill your father and marry your mother." Yep–it's time to ask the AI the weird questions again. I don't know if you have ever heard the story about Oedipus from the Greek mythology. In it, the unfortunate Oedipus ask the oracle in Delphi who he is. The oracle gives him the cryptic answer that he is the man who will kill his father and marry his mother.