I attempted Photopia today. I can definitely say that I got a lot further with it than I did with the Lost Pig and Shade. I guess because it was most similar to the Choose your own adventure books. The story continues progressing as you enter the commands. What surprised me was when it started the story was of two guys in a car, they were both drunk and were driving to meet these girls that they had met earlier in the day. The driver passed a red light in the intersection and the story moved on to the exploration of the red planet Mars. I got a bit confused at first at how quickly the story jumped. As I was discovering the red planet it was coming along easier the computer and I were in sync, that is until the end when the explore found what they had come looking for and needed to head back to the spaceship before running out of oxygen. Whatever command I wrote I could not get the explore to do anything, I even re-read the instructions and the prompts so that I could get back to the spaceship nothing worked. I just wish that I were able to finish the story before frustration kicks in and I give up.
I really do think that I much rather prefer hypertext than interactive fiction, because its easier to click on a picture than it is to figure out what command the computer will recognize. I guess of all the interactive fiction that I had done the one that we did in class Aisle was the easiest for me to navigate through.