Thank you kindly for the lengthy reply, actually. You’ve given me points to think about. I have actually stumbled across your WIP in the past, and - do take my views with a grain of salt, I’ve absolutely zero experience with reviews/criticism of interactive novels - I enjoyed the company of NYMS’s narrative voice far more than I’ve enjoyed others, definitely product of the extensive use of humour. A great way in which to include humour in a story without getting sidetracked is to simply make it par for the course, which you’ve done, I think, very explicitly. I suppose that’s the unspoken second part of my question - in which form does humour serve interactive fiction best? You can, of course, make good use of stand-up comedy by narrating clumsiness, for example, but intellectual humour? Multiple plot threads, layers of irony, like those of Shakespeare’s works? Difficult. I see your point there.
