Bogan's advice to make a novel of his vignette of two boys meeting in a swimming pool led him, it may be, to pad the slender basic story with too many details of college life and ruminations, influenced by Frazer's "Golden Bough," on tribal rites.
Later the company Code Mystics developed a playable version of Fix-It Felix Jr. with a basic story: The angry Ralph busts up the Niceland apartment complex, scaring its residents.
The basic story begins with an orphaned teenage boy called Fletcher.
Judging from "Call a Clambulance," each episode will have a theme and a basic story line, with assorted detours along the way to a happy resolution.
Gameplay involves clicks to navigate through a basic but timely story, with the occasional interruption of a forgettable line-drawing puzzle.
In effect, it shows just how finely-tuned the three standard scenarios are: each invites the player into the game with a basic story that they're familiar with from their favourite sci-fi media, but the randomised scenarios leave us searching for connections, sense, and rationality in the items we're presented with.
Gerhartz was familiar with the basic story, if not every detail, of Smith's tumultuous life: the voluptuous Texas stripper who married an oil billionaire 63 years her senior and, after his death, took the fight over his estate to the Supreme Court.
The basic story line: Mr. Lee, struggling with writer's block, takes a trip to the desert to clear his mind.
This table is consistent with the basic story presented above.
Within weeks Mr. Dashner wrote a 15-page outline of the basic story and its dramatic arc, with plans that he would write both the first and the last books in the series.
