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Photopia has few puzzles and a linear structure, allowing the player no way to alter the eventual conclusion but maintaining the illusion of non-linearity. This gives horrendous and deeply felt weight to some of the story's motifs -- questions of free will and determinism. Photopia is thus effective in part because it subverts the expectation that one has upon encountering a piece of interactive fiction: that one's actions will have consequences.