1. Trace one documented credit
Open the Learn to read a connection route, or choose a pair in Network. Record the exact claim, relationship family, evidence status and source. Explain one stronger claim that the source does not support.
Begin with the problem you want to investigate, not with a presumed canon: a practical oracle, a procedural environment, a guide to distributing the GM role, or a critical account of solitary play.
When comparing resources, distinguish three ways a game can create surprise: hidden authorship, combinatorial generation, and interpretive provocation. Journaling is one technique among several, not a synonym for solo roleplaying.
The four broader genealogies proposed for future research are branching and programmed text; solitaire wargaming and procedural environments; the decomposed GM role and oracle systems; and journaling, correspondence, and material artefacts. The map's first pilot lens instead proposes seven transparent discussion cases for one question about interpretive authority. Those proposals are not settled lineages or evidence claims.
Read the map's Method and scope before treating a line, date, region or Compare placement as a historical claim.
These activities treat the visualisation as an argument with records. Each begins with a claim that can be inspected, challenged or revised.
Open the Learn to read a connection route, or choose a pair in Network. Record the exact claim, relationship family, evidence status and source. Explain one stronger claim that the source does not support.
Select two works at least ten years apart. Use a context layer to form a question, then state whether that context is actually cited in a relationship assertion.
Read two placement rationales, then use the local Student workspace to propose a revised score. Give a rulebook procedure or other record that would make the judgement more accountable.
Connect three works without a direct verified arrow. Label every sentence in your account as documented fact, close-reading observation or interpretive hypothesis.
Choose an absence that matters. Identify the designer acknowledgement, edition credit, interview or other named source that could justify a carefully worded addition.