Collaborating with the Audience: “With Those We Love Alive” and “Elegy for a...
“With Those We Love Alive”, a new Twine work by Porpentine, does something I’ve never seen before. It does this. i just played ‘with those we love alive’ by @aliendovecote and strongly recommend you do...
View Article20 Recommended Interactive Fiction Games
In 2011, Victor Gijsbers held a vote to determine the community-recommended “Interactive Fiction Top 50″. In his words: The aim is not to decide what the best IF ever is by majority vote — that would...
View ArticleIf you’re happy and you know it….
…tap the mic! (tap, tap) Anything else I was going to write about has been derailed. Harmonix just announced Rock Band 4 for 2015. I’ve heard people question whether a video game can teach real music...
View ArticleBook recommendation: Flex
Ferrett Steinmetz’s debut novel Flex is a brilliant, beautiful urban fantasy. I recommend it highly. I read a lot of brilliant, beautiful things. Most of them don’t get posts here. Flex is the...
View ArticleTwo articles, three IF events
As I mentioned Monday, I’m backing off from the blog this month so I can focus on my ShuffleComp game. But I hate to leave you emptyhanded, so: Two articles about how medium affects form Various world...
View ArticleSPAG (and a vacation announcement)
I’m going on vacation for the next week. If you’d like something IF-related to occupy you in the meantime, how about checking out the current and back issues of SPAG? SPAG Magazine is an old and...
View ArticleMatt Chelen’s Another Interactive Fiction Engine List
Occasionally, the thought crosses my mind: what if I created a game in every existing interactive fiction engine, something tailored to capture its strengths? It would be a whole lot of work, but it...
View ArticleDesign Goals Illustrated: NetHack vs. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
NetHack The first roguelike I played was NetHack, one of the oldest and best of its breed. I played NetHack 3.1 in the fall of 1991, back when horses didn’t exist and”elf” was still a class. For the...
View ArticleIntroComp, and other recommendations
Hi everyone! Today has been pretty busy here (eaten by wedding plans, etc), so I don’t have a new post for you. But I do have some great recommendations to check out in the meantime. IntroComp is going...
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