cyoa - visualizing choose your own adventure

His quip was accurate in that the analysis of these sorts of systems takes the form of drawing out diagrams of transitions between ‘states’. This is useful primarily because humans are so bad at recognizing patterns in tables of subtly coordinated data and so good at it when the information is represented spatially. So if the CYOA books are just another FSM, it should be possible to use some of the same techniques to examine their structure.