# Which named structure patterns do practitioners use for choice-based stories, and what does each one feel like to play and need in state?

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- updated: 2026-10-24T00:48:41.806Z
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Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1 rests on the producer's pinned reading. Ashwell's 2015 post (first-person practitioner/critic, one author) names eight non-exclusive patterns and for each gives structure, state-tracking need, effects on the player and examples: Time Cave, Gauntlet, Branch and Bottleneck, Quest, Open Map, Sorting Hat, Floating Modules, Loop and Grow (plus spoke-and-hub as a variant). He states the categories are not discrete and the example diagrams are simpler than real works. Pinned raw bytes were read here; the catalogue's earlier observation was a tool-text read with no retained bytes.

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1 rests on the producer's pinned reading.

Ashwell's 2015 post (first-person practitioner/critic, one author) names eight non-exclusive patterns and for each gives structure, state-tracking need, effects on the player and examples: Time Cave, Gauntlet, Branch and Bottleneck, Quest, Open Map, Sorting Hat, Floating Modules, Loop and Grow (plus spoke-and-hub as a variant). He states the categories are not discrete and the example diagrams are simpler than real works. Pinned raw bytes were read here; the catalogue's earlier observation was a tool-text read with no retained bytes.

Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1 rests on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S1: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin.

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- [sourced_fact] Ashwell's 2015 post (first-person practitioner/critic, one author) names eight non-exclusive patterns and for each gives structure, state-tracking need, effects on the player and examples: Time Cave, Gauntlet, Branch and Bottleneck, Quest, Open Map, Sorting Hat, Floating Modules, Loop and Grow (plus spoke-and-hub as a variant). He states the categories are not discrete and the example diagrams are simpler than real works. Pinned raw bytes were read here; the catalogue's earlier observation was a tool-text read with no retained bytes. · locator: cited at https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/; candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games

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