Most crucially, I did not know that I'd been traveling on Thursday night with a companion of sorts: a second experiment participant at a remote computer who was playing a text-based game on an Internet browser that occasionally intersected with my live "Sleep No More" experience.
By making her characters play a text-based game in which the reader absorbs the descriptions of the cyberworld ("You are in a light, bright library, the outer chamber of the sphere where Lark lives and works") at the same time as the character does, she draws readers into the story more deeply than if everyone were simply sitting around pointing and clicking through a more visually oriented game.
Furthermore, as Harnoncourt points out, the instrumentalists would all have been composers and would have expected to collaborate creatively at each performance, rather than playing a set text.
It always requires a sure grasp of history - theatrical as well as political and social - to play with a text in this way.
Text feature extraction plays a crucial role in text classification, directly influencing the accuracy of text classification [3, 10].
First of all, there is a theme that seems to be playing an important role in religious texts of various religions, namely that of awe.
"I played a lot of text-based role-playing games," she told me, explaining how she got involved with AIM.
Yet it's much less common for a choreographer to direct a so-called straight play, a text-based work by another author.
The text plays a key role insofar as any constitutional interpretation, innovative as it may be, must be consistent with that text, until such time as it is formally changed via some acknowledged process of constitutional amendment.
The first occurred in April, when students at the New School took over a university building and read "On the Poverty of Student Life," a text which played a key role in the 1968 uprisings in Paris (we posted on the event).
