Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Storycade: News: New IF Publication sub-Q
This post was written by sub-Q founder Tory Hoke, who has written for us previously. You can find more from Tory on Twitter. On Tuesday, August 4, sub-Q Magazine launches its first issue of interactive fiction. This may be a good time to discuss what the hey sub-Q is. Details about us–our pay rates, our […]
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Emily Short: June Link Assortment
My casual storygame San Tilapian Studies is running at a free exhibition of play at The Wellcome Collection in London the evening of July 3. Many other terrific things will be there too. I can’t be there myself, but I … Continue reading →
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Avoid Being a 1920’s Gangster! by Rupert Matthews
Too bad this is for young kids, I'd love to know the gritty dirty stuff.
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Monday, June 29, 2015
The People's Republic of IF: July meetup
The Boston IF meetup for July will be Monday, July 13, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
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Sibyl Moon Games: One Weird Trick That Could Save You… (Inform 7 tables)
If you’re working with large and complex tables in Inform 7, don’t do it in the IDE. The Inform 7 IDE is wonderful in many ways, but complicated tables get really, really hard to read – especially if you have more columns than screen space.
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These Heterogenous Tasks: Cheat Your Own Adventure
Go Play NW is a Seattle-based con for playing games; there’s an emphasis on indie and narrative-oriented role-playing games, but there are usually some board and card games in the mix. I love it because, not having any vendors, it’s … Continue reading →
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Storycade: News: Eczema Angel Orifice Comes to itch.io
Porpentine has released a Twine compilation of 25 works, including some of her award-winning hyper-text fiction, on itch.io as well as Steam Greenlight. Eczema Angel Orifice features an all new launcher, updated versions of several of the works as well as some new soundtracks by Porpentine collaborator Brenda Neotenomie. Some of the games featured in […]
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Wed to the Montana Cowboy by Carol Arens
First comes the sweetness. And the cuteness. Then come the Terminator cartoon villains from hell.
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
09. As Cavernas da Bruxa da Neve
Título original em Inglês: Caverns of the Snow Witch Título em Português (PT): A Feiticeira das Neves Numeração original: #09 Autor: Ian Livingstone Lançamento: 01 de Agosto de 2012 Ilustrações: Gary Ward e Edward Crosby Ilustração da capa por: Daniel HDR e Thiago Ribeiro Tradução para Português-BR: Gustavo Brauner Nas profundezas das Cavernas de Cristal, […]
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Gamefic: Another Weekend, Another Refactoring
The Director class that handles actions just went through a major overhaul. Most of the changes are internal, so the impact on plot scripts should be minimal. Among the changes: Read More
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The Digital Antiquarian: A Digital Antiquarian Hall of Fame
I’ve just added a new feature to this site: a sort of canon, if you will, of really worthwhile games and other interactive works that balances historical importance with those concerns about playability and fairness that are always so important to me as well. I must admit that I’ve created this list as much for […]
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The Magnate’s Manifesto by Jennifer Hayward
A plot with a feminist bent in this line of books? Don't get too excited, it's all smokescreen for the same old gender stereotyping.
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Saturday, June 27, 2015
What would happen if fighting Fantasy went from 2d6 to 1d12?
Ages ago, I wrote a post about using dice and what the probability of rolling a particular number on 2d6 was as well as the probability of winning an attack round depending on the difference in your skill and your opponent’s skill. (at one point, I’m going to revisit my big posts to update them with […]
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Suddenly One Summer by Julie James
Suddenly, the magic is gone. Insert sad smiley here.
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Sibyl Moon Games: “Rainbows and Dance Parties!”
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the Fourteen Amendment.
I dropped all my other plans for the day and wrote this game.
“Rainbows and Dance Parties!” is puzzle-free and includes helpful instructions for new players.
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It’s Killing Time: Travel the world, meet new people, assassinate them
We’re proud to announce that It’s Killing Time, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and, and, via the Chrome Web Store, Windows, Mac, and Linux. It’s 25% off until July 4th. Travel the world, meet interesting new people, and assassinate them for money! “It’s Killing Time” is an ultra-violent 140,000-word interactive novel by Eric Bonholtzer, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Earn respect, reputation, and wealth as a hired
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Choice of Games: It’s Killing Time: Travel the world, meet new people, assassinate them
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Chasms of Malice – A Fighting Fantasy Flashback
Written by: Luke Sharp Illustrated by: Russ Nicholson Cover Illustration: Les Edwards First Published: 1988 “Gorak is under threat from the evil which haunts the dark chasms beneath it. The great seals of Gorak have been broken and the True Shield is gone – the Malice of Orghuz has again been unleashed! As a direct [&hellip
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Emily Short: Terminator (Matt Weiner)
Terminator — not to be confused with Terminator Chaser — is a game from ParserComp that I didn’t get around to reviewing while the competition was running. Low on story, high on simulation and experimental features, Terminator requires you to … Continue reading →
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So Close Now
Last night the Fellowship worked out the final look of the front and back covers for Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls. Don’t look at me. This is not the final front cover I would have chosen, but i’m not fighting it […]Continue reading «So Close Now»
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Alpha’s Voodoo by Haley Whitehall
This one reads like it was written, edited, and proofread by fourteen-year- old kids.
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Whispers at Court by Blythe Gifford
I really wish I can give this one a higher rating. It's one of those rare medieval romances that actually feel like one.
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Frankenstein Wars – The Hard Part Is History
You could make a solid argument that it’s more challenging to write good interactive fiction than good literary fiction. In a gamebook, say, all of the requirements of high-quality literature must be present – such as plot, pacing, character; those old chestnuts. And yet you have to work within a very specific form, one that […]
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Storycade: First Person Exploration: Home is Where One Starts
It’s clear to see where David Wehle got his inspiration to make Home is Where One Starts. In terms of gaming, it has clear ties to other “walking simulators,” like Dear Esther and Gone Home. But even the casual observer can see the literature he’s referencing — from his Steinbeck-ian portrayal of the downtrodden American […]
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Undo Restart Restore: How to make a great IntroComp entry
It’s IntroComp season again! IntroComp is one of the oldest active IF competitions, run yearly since 2002. The idea is to make a short intro that showcases a work-in-progress that will eventually be expanded into a full game. Competition judges are asked to rate the entries based on how much they would want to play Continue reading How to make a great IntroComp entry →
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The Digital Antiquarian: Accolade Gets Distinctive
Only a few publishers managed to build a reputation to rival that of Epyx as masters of Commodore 64 graphics and sound. Foremost amongst this select group by 1987 was Accolade, riding high on hits like Dam Busters and Ace of Aces. Both of those games were created by Canadian developers Artech, who in 1987 […]
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Cherry Lane by Rochelle Alers
Plots are for losers. Cool people just breed and make babies for sequels.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Storycade: Visual Novel: Bionic Heart
There are some visual novels that make a reader laugh because they’re incredibly funny. There are some visual novels that make the reader laugh because the writing or characters are so bad that they’re unitentionally funny. And then there are some visual novels that never make the reader laugh because said reader is too busy […]
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Emily Short: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Last year I wrote about the way Gone Home is mostly backstory but doesn’t yield to thematically directed exploration. I talked then about wanting to see more games of research, pieces where the player could make guesses about where things … Continue reading →
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Creature Compendium
Progress on the Beyond the Morning Mountains gamebook continues to go very well, including the recent creation and design of a Creature Compendium insert, which details all of the creatures, monsters and spirits that the player may encounter during the first volume of their journey south – including many new adversaries not already featured on this […]
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Storycade: Kickstarter: the Frankenstein Wars
From the mind of Dave Morris, the writer behind inkle’s highly rated iOS interactive publication Frankenstein, comes a new Mary Shelley inspired work — the Frankenstein Wars. Currently on the final stretch in Kickstarter, the Frankenstein Wars is an interactive gamebook about war, dominance and an “unstoppable army of the dead.” The premise of the game […]
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The Lady Hellion by Joanna Shupe
The best thing about this one is the lack of "My girlfriend is a hateful slut!" drama. Everything else is... oh boy.
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Adventures in Alan v3: Alan v2 copyright
Alan v2 is now available under the Artistic License 2.0, in the same way Alan v3 now is. This declaration takes precedence over any licensing or copyrights expressed in the source files or otherwise accompanying notes or documents.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
These Heterogenous Tasks: Hollywood Visionary
I have been greatly looking forwards to Aaron Reed’s Hollywood Visionary, in which you play the founder of an ambitious new Hollywood studio in the 1950s, trying to make your first independent movie. Visionary is a long way from the kind … Continue reading →
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Sibyl Moon Games: Patreon Support for Sibyl Moon
Dear everyone,
This is the 100th published post on Sibyl Moon.
When I created Sibyl Moon in August, I did so with great trepidation. Would people visit? Would they be interested in what I had to say? Would they find … Keep reading →
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Emily Short: Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House: Book 2 (The Marino Family)
The first episode of Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House was an IFComp entry in 2013. (Here’s my review.) It is a choice-based Undum children’s story about a group of foster children who go to live in the home of … Continue reading →
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Going to Press Soon
Liz Danforth has finished the art. The Fellowship has hashed out the final wording of the copyright notice. Steve Crompton is inserting art copyright notices on all the art in the rules. When that’s done, I think we can go […]Continue reading «Going to Press Soon»
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Post Position: @Party 2015 Productions
I had five productions (one of them a collaboration) this time around at @Party, the Boston-area demoparty. Browser demo: “More Tongue.” This was, well, not really a standard demo, even for a browser demo, that generates nonsense poems with compact code. Like everything at demoparties, it’s been released, but I’m going to work on a […]
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Gamefic: Reevaluating the DSL
This weekend I pushed a new repo branch that includes a major refactoring of the plot DSL. The syntax for plot scripts is largely unchanged, but the new code behind it uses a new module called the Stage. I based it on the Clean Room pattern described in Metaprogramming Ruby and further developed by Seth Vargo. Including the Stage module can make any class capable of loading code from a Ruby DSL. Read More
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Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (2014)
Gratuitous sex scenes and disgusting gore in a low-budget crap flick. That's... quite cool, actually.
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The Harlot Countess by Joanna Shupe
Another story where the hero thinks the heroine is a whore, and the heroine can't wait to put out to him.
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Saturday, June 20, 2015
Tinkering tinkering
Hello all! I have made some more changes to Legend of the Wayfarer system. And I need to stop them. I need to make a promise to only change the system every 6 books or so, to stop constant tweaking. Here are the latest tweaks: Changes to the abilities: My ideas with the abilities was […]
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Emily Short: And the Robot Horse You Rode In On (Anna Anthropy), with some thoughts about Spider and Web
Writing about Videogames for Humans, Robert Yang noted some ways in which he found it a useful but not comprehensive guide to the games it covers. His review includes this passage: Or when Cat Fitzpatrick plays Anna Anthropy’s “And The … Continue reading →
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Friday, June 19, 2015
The Courtesan Duchess by Joanna Shupe
Fake courtesan. Cruel worthless hero. Imbecile doormat heroine. And then, add in idiot plot.
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Sibyl Moon Games: Repairing Scheduling Errors
“My name is Carolyn, game dev of games: look upon my screwups, ye Readers, and learn more!”
In other words: I recently made an interesting scheduling error, so it seemed like a good time to talk about how to repair scheduling errors.
The context
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Goblin Mercantile Exchange: Session 4 of Feu de Joie now online
Continue (or begin!) the serialized work of interactive fiction at http://ift.tt/1xFmees The Tester tries to take matters into his own…
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The Digital Antiquarian: The Evolution of the (Epyx) Games
The American home-computer industry entered 1987 feeling more optimistic than it had in several years. With the bloodletting of 1985 now firmly in the past, there was a sense amongst the survivors that they had proved themselves the fittest and smartest. If the ebullient a-computer-for-every-home predictions of 1983 weren’t likely to be repeated anytime soon, […]
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A map of Danelaw Britain
I can never predict my next client – something that came very true when I was approached by Inkshares to create a map for Gary Whitta’s debut novel Abomination. Now Gary has an interesting background: writer for Star Wars, Book of Eli, and – of course – After Earth, for which I did the expanded […]
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
These Heterogenous Tasks: The RPG Death Spiral
Possibly you’ve been here: the heroic PCs, on entering a village, smell something suspicious. They were meant to smell something suspicious, but they get the wrong end of the stick somehow, decide that the headman is a doppelganger spy, and attack him. … Continue reading →
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Emily Short: Sunset (Tale of Tales)
Sunset is the story of Angela Burnes, an African-American woman who has become the housekeeper of Ortega, a wealthy man in the fictional Latin American country of Anchuria. The time is 1972, in the middle of that country’s civil war. … Continue reading →
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Web Interactive Fiction: glulx-typescript web page
Thilo just pushed his latest updates to the VM and has now added a sample web page implementation (not angular). One of the things I had done for Zifmia (my attempt at a client/server IF platform) was to create a wrapper of the glulx Engine. This would allow you to treat the VM as a […]
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Lord of the Sea by Danelle Harmon
Things start out great in this seafaring romance, only to then go on and on and on and on and on...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Written in My Heart by Caroline Linden
A TBR Challenge 2015 review. This one is pleasant enough, but maybe I should have read something more... exciting?
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Like None Other by Caroline Linden
A TBR Challenge 2015 review. This one starts out very promising, but it soon turns out to be like every other (snort).
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Web Interactive Fiction: quixe-channels app core
So I have two tracks of web work going on, one is an adaptation of quixe for channel IO and the other is FyreVM ported to TypeScript. The quixe-channels work is mostly done, although we’re porting Andrew’s latest performance changes to our work. Since I’ve had quixe “angularized”, it’s not as simple as doing a […]
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
Sibyl Moon Games: Thank you, intrepid bug hunters!
With each installment, 18 Rooms to Home is becoming more complicated. I want to make this project as polished as I can – but I’m also trying to write and release at speed, two axiomatically conflicting goals.
Several people alerted … Keep reading →
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Emily Short: Pricing Freelance Projects
After my previous career-related post, various people have reached out to me with further questions about how this all works. In a bit of an experiment in transparency, I thought I’d write a bit about how I price projects when … Continue reading →
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Where are they now? Daenerys, Bran, and Jon Snow
First off – this post will contain spoilers. But I guess that’s a given today. We’re now at the point where the books and the tv show have converged. Daenerys has flown north and is clearly deep in the Dothraki Sea. Cersei is back in the Red Keep, and Jon Snow is – well he’s […]
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A Mistress for Major Bartlett by Annie Burrows
The author spent too much time on not-so-important matters of the heart here.
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Sunday, June 14, 2015
Emily Short: 18 Rooms to Home (Carolyn VanEseltine): rooms 18, 17, 16
Carolyn VanEseltine is releasing a serial parser IF project called 18 Rooms to Home. The serial is working backwards in time: Room 18 was released first, than Room 17, then Room 16. So Room 18 represents the ending of the … Continue reading →
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Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007)
It's everything a straight-to-video horror movie usually is - no surprises, really.
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
My Stallion Heart by Deborah Fletcher Mello
Too many family members in an otherwise enjoyable story.
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Jurassic World (2015)
If you have seen any of the previous movies, this one is going to feel very familiar.
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The Non-adventurer class for DnD 5th edition
Hello all! Recently, I made an E2 version of DnD where I introduced the master class, a class that basically gets lots of skills and is used mainly for powerful NPCs. I did this because I wanted some NPCs in the world to not just be ‘0 level’ people who get trodden all over by […]
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Web Interactive Fiction: Patreon
I started a creator page so that I could at least share the financial side of what I’m doing from a hobby IF perspective. As I do with plover.net, the request for support is entirely optional, but also appreciated….especially if you believe in the work I’m doing. My goals for IF are centered around web […]
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Muck (2015)
This movie is so sexist, creepy, plot-free, crap, disgustingly exploitative, misogynist... it's actually amazing.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Rake Most Likely to Rebel by Bronwyn Scott
I don't know about rebelling, but I am LIVING for this baby.
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Emily Short: The Century Beast (The Mysterious Package Company)
The Mysterious Package Company sends story experiences through the mail. Sign up, and you or your chosen recipient gets a sequence of unexplained mailings. Inside: objects that tell a story, from documents and newspaper clippings through medium-sized statuary and significant … Continue reading →
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Sibyl Moon Games: 18 Rooms to Home: Room 16
This is the third installment of 18 Rooms to Home, an experimental work of interactive fiction. The full game covers a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer.
18 Rooms to Home is a serialized game. … Keep reading →
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The Digital Antiquarian: Topologika
When Acorn Computer floundered on a financial iceberg in 1985, one of the first and saddest victims was Acornsoft, their software arm. Acornsoft was destined to go down into history first and foremost as the house that set British gaming on its head with Elite, but David Braben and Ian Bell, having already made their […]
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Need Me by Tessa Bailey
This harmless-looking book turns out to be one of the most toxic new adult tales I've read.
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Steam Summer Sale: All our games are 40% off! (Except Tin Star is 80% off, today only!)
The Steam Summer Sale has begun and tons of games are on sale. All of our Steam games are 40% off. All of our games except one. You see, (I feel a bit embarrassed about this,) I configured Tin Star to be 40% off during its launch week and 40% off during the Steam Summer Sale… and, I guess I didn’t think it through properly, but since Tin Star launched six days ago, Tin Star is 80% off, today only. Anyway, my mistake is your gain. If you’ve even thought about buying Tin Star, literally the biggest interactive novel ever
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Choice of Games: Steam Summer Sale: All our games are 40% off! (Except Tin Star is 80% off, today only!)
The Steam Summer Sale has begun and tons of games are on sale. All of our Steam games are 40% off. All of our games except one. You see, (I feel a bit embarrassed about this,) I configured Tin Star to be 40% off during its launch week and 40% off during the Steam Summer Sale… and, I guess I didn’t think it through properly, but since Tin Star launched six days ago, Tin Star is 80% off, today only. Anyway, my mistake is your gain. If you’ve even thought about buying Tin Star, literally the biggest interactive novel ever
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Post Position: Shebang Bash at Babycastles, July 2
Shebang Bash is a two-part event at Babycastles (137 West 14th Street, Floor 2, New York City) on Thursday, July 2. The workshop (beginning at 6pm) provides an opportunity for anyone to begin developing computational poetry by modifying existing programs. Those without programming experience are particularly encouraged to attend. Workshop participants will develop, share, and […]
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Post Position: “Apple II vs. Commodore 64″ Trope Tank Video
Erik Stayton’s 12-minute video “Apple II vs. Commodore 64″ is now up on YouTube. It’s shot in the Trope Tank with him in conversation with me there. We discuss several of the things you’d experience in emulation, but also make reference to material specifics of these systems and the two specific computers and controllers that […]
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Chase Me by Tessa Bailey
How sad, the author almost caught me. Maybe another time.
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Game mechanics #2 - The Story
The story
Talking about the story as a game mechanic doesn’t sound orthodox, surely. But think about it and you’ll find pretty interesting similarities between the progress of a videogame and the progress of a story, even in a videogame a hard obstacle is called “final stage boss” while in a story is called “turning point” they both suppose a gap that puts the character’s goal in risk.
In fact, writers and game designers are in very near positions. They both are always thinking about how keeping audience’s attention, about cliffhangers, about which elements will make the audience to be immersed and engaged to the game/story...
Ok, let’s move forward. We don’t want to spoiler The Frankenstein Wars plot, so we’re just talking here about some main issues:
- The French radicals, the Zeroistes, who supported Napoleon’s revolution before his defeat, have discovered Frankenstein’s technology. Their plan is to use it to build an army where casualties are a problem no more. Not just that, because they want to bring Napoleon himself back to life. But just one man can create the serum needed to revive the dead: Tom Clerval, who doesn’t believe in their cause.
- The main characters, the brothers Anton and Tom Clerval, begin the story in confronted positions. Tom’s will is against the Zeroiste’s while Anton is a young cavalry officer from this revolutionary movement. But their disagreements are more personal, deeper. Anton always envied his brother, because of his beautiful wife, because his relationship with their father... They will have the destiny of millions in their hands.
- Another important character in The Frankenstein Wars is Mr Legion, but we can’t say nothing about him right now (if you’re brave enough to pledge for a high tier, maybe we can talk.)
We will post more updates with information about the game mechanics and the team! Stay tuned ;)
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Falling Hard by Helenkay Dimon
Everyone wants to be Lisa Marie Rice these days, I see.
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THE GAME MECHANICS #1 - The main character/s
Game mechanics Update! The Frankenstein Wars: on game mechanics.
The most basic game element in a gamebook is that you decide what the main character does. But in The Frankenstein Wars there isn’t a single main character involved. We’re not saying that you’ll be able to choose between several characters to play, but that you will control two main characters at the same time: the brothers Tom and Anton Clerval.
They are the sons of Henry Clerval, Victor Frankenstein’s young friend in Mary Shelley’s original novel. In the alternate 19th century where The Frankenstein Wars sets, the two brothers belong to confronted factions: young Anton is a French cavalry officer who sympathizes the Zeroistes, the revolutionaries who want to use Frankenstein’s technology to revive the French Revolution. Tom, the older brother, is a doctor who opposites this cause, seeing the real thread this technology supposes. So the abstract is: two brothers, two factions, a threatening technology and a war that can bring Europe to its darkest and most dreadful times.
Controlling two characters at the same time means that we’re breaking that general gamebook rule which says “you play one character in one main arc.” Giving you two main arcs starring two confronted brothers, you get game x 2. Even they begin in opposite fronts, it’s up to you to decide their destiny. What’s at stake is more than only their destiny, of course...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015
These Heterogenous Tasks: Starry Seeksorrow
Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson, is one of the Commended entries from Shufflecomp Disc 2. The player-character is a doll, animated by magic to protect the child of two wizards – sometimes a Klaus, sometimes a Klara. The action is confined … Continue reading →
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Emily Short: Cinders (Moacube)
only it was really too inconvenient, you see, not least when it shattered on the staircase I was running up to catch the last train… — Apologies for Breaking the Glass Slipper, Isabel Yap When I’m drawn to adapt a … Continue reading →
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Beauty Marked by Miss Fame
Another one with an album. These queens are just brimming with musical dreams or what?
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Monday, June 8, 2015
These Heterogenous Tasks: Spring Thing 2015: Mere Anarchy
(Belated, but better than never, no?) Mere Anarchy (Bruno Dias) is an Undum piece. It feels like more of a short-story-with-aesthetic-variations than a branching plot: the prose is confident and attractive, though, and the aesthetic choices are about aesthetics pleasing enough to … Continue reading →
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Sibyl Moon Games: Motivation for the Solo Indie Game Dev (with commentary by @yayfrens)
“How do you stay motivated?”
I’ve heard this question hundreds of times, both on Twitter and in person. Motivation is one of the biggest common problems for solo indie game devs. If there’s no one beside you to cheer you along, it can be really hard to keep going.
In … Keep reading →
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Warhammer Prehistory: Find the Lady
A few weeks ago, I had occasion to scan the last AD&D adventure I wrote before I started work on the game that would become Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. You can find it here. The adventure was called Find the Lady, and it was published in issue 2 of Paul Cockburn’s AD&D magazine GameMaster Publications, which […]
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These Heterogenous Tasks: A Year Without Zombies 6: Summer Cannibals
They dog my heels. I was reading A.S. Byatt’s The Virgin and the Garden, a turgidly literary novel about England around the time of Elizabeth II’s coronation (yes, that sounds like the most boring thing ever, but there are seams of quite lovely writing and character … Continue reading →
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Convention Time!
Come check out Heroes Guard: The Journal at any of these upcoming conventions: Too Many Games, Artscape, Otakon
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The Love Game by Regina Hart
This is a pretty good read, but the brainpower of the hero seems subpar when it comes to business 101.
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Pleasure by Pearl
One of the most unworthy finalists on RuPaul's Drag Race wants to be an EDM star. Bwahahahaha.
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Music Box Opera by Delerium
And every track is opera-ing me to sleep. Zzzzz...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
Season for Desire by Theresa Romain
The author seems more interested in having her characters be sarcastic and acerbic than in telling a believable story.
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Weaponising Frankenstein’s Monster
The military gets to play with all the best technology before it filters down to the general public. The ironing board in your cupboard is made from heat-resistant materials originally developed for the engines of the Mirage 2000C jet fighter. Your toaster only knows when to pop up because its timer is based on the […]
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textadventures.co.uk: Inform hosting on textadventures.co.uk
You can now upload games created with Inform directly to textadventures.co.uk. Previously, you could upload an HTML game created using Inform’s “Release along with an interpreter” option, but now it’s even easier – you can now upload a .z5, .z8, .ulx, .zblorb or .gblorb file directly. Just head to the “Submit a Game” link and submit […]
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These Heterogenous Tasks: MASSIVE CHALICE
MASSIVE CHALICE is, according to every reviewer ever, XCOM squad tactics meets Crusader Kings eugenics. These are two of my very favourite games, so obviously I had to check the thing out. For many, many years I have had an Ideal … Continue reading →
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The People's Republic of IF: June meetup
The Boston IF meetup for June will be Tuesday, June 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
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Gamefic: Parsing Questions
Carolyn VanEseltine's post about parser tutorials inspired me to think about what to do when players ask questions in parser games. From her post: Read More
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Emily Short: So You Want to Write IF: A Party Game for LudoLunch
LudoLunch was a game designers’ picnic lunch held in Christchurch Meadow yesterday by Simon Roth and compatriots. Simon asked if I would talk about interactive fiction, and it only really hit me after I accepted that the parameters of a … Continue reading →
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
It's not scary or entertaining, no matter how loud they make the sound effects.
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Gamefic: Gamefic on Pivotal Tracker
Today I created a public project for Gamefic on Pivotal Tracker. I'll be using it to manage the development of new features and measure progress. Read More
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Friday, June 5, 2015
Tin Star out on Steam, 40% off during launch week
We’re happy to announce that one of our bestselling Hosted Games, Tin Star, is now available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Buy it today for 40% off the regular price! Tin Star is an interactive western mystery novel by Allen Gies (author of Marine Raider, Apex Patrol, and Shadow Horror). It’s over 1.3 million words long, making it the biggest interactive novel ever made. A single playthrough from beginning to epilogue can run over 80,000 words. We’ve published a number of popular games on Steam under our “Choice of Games” label, but this is the first time we’re
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Choice of Games: Tin Star out on Steam, 40% off during launch week
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Lady Sarah’s Sinful Desires by Sophie Barnes
Please tell me this is a horrific Jane Austen fanfiction written by a 13-year old that accidentally got published.
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The Digital Antiquarian: KAOS
In a hole in a mound there lived an orc. Not a clear, dry, sandy hole with only spiders to catch and eat, nor yet a comfortable hobbit hole. It was an orc hole, and that means a dirty, clammy, wet hole filled with bits of worms and a putrid smell. It had a perfectly […]
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Sibyl Moon Games: Tutorials, following up
No 18 Rooms release today – I’m still working on Room 16, which is complex enough that it needs more time for testing. Sorry!
However, to follow up from Monday’s post, we’ve been having a fascinating conversation about tutorials in this intfiction.org thread.
I’ve learned that Emily … Keep reading →
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These Heterogenous Tasks: Naming and NPCsity
Last post discussed player-directed – or, at least, not directly author-mandated – naming for individual player characters. But there’s another important use-case: naming lots of characters, using generated names. The Simple End of Things Creepy narrative block-puzzler Road Not Taken has a town populated by … Continue reading →
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A Fortune for the Outlaw’s Daughter by Lauri Robinson
You know what kills me about this book? Not being able to give it five oogies.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
My Complete and Utter Warhammer 40,000 Bibliography
Here’s the second instalment in my “Complete and Utter Bibliography” project. The first one covered Warhammer Fantasy, and now its time to more on to the 40th Millenium. The plan is to post a new instalment at the beginning of each month. Next up: Call of Cthulhu and other Mythos-related projects. I was never as […]
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Love in the Time of Scandal by Caroline Linden
This book could have been far better than what it turned out to be.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Lautz of IF: Trizbort 1.5.8.9 – June Release
Time for another Trizbort release. Version 1.5.8.9 is out and available for download. This releases adds a few new features that I think are pretty handy and fixes a few issues with the automapper (thanks for Marshall Tenner Winter for asking me to beta test his WIP which helped me find these few issues with […]
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3... 2... 1...“It’s alive!”
THE FRANKENSTEIN WARS Kickstarter campaign!
Exhausting workdays have passed, but several more are to come before the campaign is over and we can celebrate (hope so) that the project has been funded and The Frankenstein Wars enters in production stage.
Behind this game there’s a really solid team yearning to turn the switch on, to work hard and to bring this adventure to life. Meet this team and discover this project checking out The Frankenstein Wars Kickstarter page. You can help us pledging this project and sharing it with your friends and followers. Thank you!
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Emily Short: Language and the Interface exhibit
Language and the Interface was part of the international conference “Digital Literary Studies” hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, May 14-15, 2015. They showed off a number of text-based interactive works, including Galatea, … Continue reading →
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