Caroline in the City online game

Online interactive novel

The concept of interactive novel is hardly new - there were examples of such game systems even before personal computers were invented. The first versions were rather simple - a book, in which all of the chapters were mixed and at the end of each you, as player, was making decision what will happen next. Based on that decision you were given number of the chapter that you should jump to next. That way you were reading the book, but the outcome of the story or the events that took place were based on your decisions.

Computer interactive novels were more complicated and introduction of online interactive novels opened completely new horizons for the genre. Now not only you were making decisions that selected the further events, but also computers could store data of your progress so far and adapt future events to what has happened in the story so far.

Where is Caroline? in a way is an interactive novel, you have to reach certain points to learn what to do next and your actions create future events. The game also uses elements of point & click adventure and online travel game genre.