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Consider the Consequences!, published in 1930, is the first known book to use a non-linear, choice-based narrative (in the style of "choose your own adventure"). Unlike the vast majority of interactive narrative works that would appear in the following years, its authors were two women: Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins. The surprisingly progressive tone of many of their plots may have to do with the fact that the latter, Mary Alden Hopkins, was an activist for women's suffrage and women's rights.

Some of the differences from the standards of later works of interactive literature:

The book allows us to choose between three distinct but related characters, allowing us to experience the story from their points of view.
The work is written in the third person, and not in the second person as is common in other interactive books or gamebooks.
It is a work intended for an adult audience, and designed to be read in a group, with one person reading and others making the decisions.

The story is surprisingly agile for a forgotten text from 1930, with well-constructed characters and believable and interesting situations. The text allows us to travel to a time very different from our own, and to understand many of its dilemmas.

Available in both English and Spanish versions.


There are many other endings depending on the choices you make.


The game was made by Kozelek in 2024.

Download here: https://unapersona-y-otrapersona.itch.io/consider-the-consequences

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