Friday, July 31, 2015

Soul Tie Seduction by KD Friedrich

I'm tempted to deduct an oogie for the names of the hero and the heroine, but nah, I'm not that mean.

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Her Horny Roman General by Georgia Fox

Finally, a happily ever after for the nerd turned sex doll and her horny Roman general!

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Transmissions coming in from a convention somewhere



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The Digital Antiquarian: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design (or, Why Ron Gilbert Hated Adventure Games)

In addition to the obvious goals of making a hit game and not getting himself fired, one of Ron Gilbert’s implicit goals in making Maniac Mansion was to force a dialog about the sorry state of the nascent art of graphic-adventure design. Sadly, his message wouldn’t be terribly well-heeded by designers other than his own […]

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The People's Republic of IF: August meetup

The Boston IF meetup for August will be Friday, August 14, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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Choice of Games: New Hosted Game! “Dancing with Demons” by Ivailo Daskalov

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! In Dancing with Demons, by Ivailo Daskalov, (author of Path of Light), follow your demonic heart and its dark wishes! Play as a contemporary succubus (or incubus) and have fun while saving the world from its doom. Participate in an invasion of a parallel world. Discover the dangers of an abandoned lab. Win the affection of your chosen, or have a one-night affair. It is all up to you. Ivailo developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these.

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New Hosted Game! “Dancing with Demons” by Ivailo Daskalov

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! In Dancing with Demons, by Ivailo Daskalov, (author of Path of Light), follow your demonic heart and its dark wishes! Play as a contemporary succubus (or incubus) and have fun while saving the world from its doom. Participate in an invasion of a parallel world. Discover the dangers of an abandoned lab. Win the affection of your chosen, or have a one-night affair. It is all up to you. Ivailo developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these.

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Lone Wolf 8 - The Jungle of Horrors playthrough



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • No magic AFF rules



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Battleblade Warrior – A Fighting Fantasy Flashback

Written by: Marc Gascoigne Illustrated by: Alan Langford Cover Illustration: David Gallagher First Published: 1988 “The fate of Vymorna lies in your hands! For six years Vymorna has been besieged… but soon it must fall to the evil Lizard Men. Day after day you fight alongside you war-weary mother, Queen Perriel, but only divine assistance [&hellip

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Emily Short: July Link Assortment

If you want to talk to and hang out with other interactive fiction enthusiasts, here are a bunch of forthcoming live IF meetups: SF Bay: August 1, 1 PM. (Details here.) Seattle: August 15, 1 PM. (Details here.) London: August … Continue reading


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Sibyl Moon Games: Pinball and Game Balance

On Tuesday, my friend Ashleigh and I went on a one-day vacation field trip to The Pinball Wizard Arcade in Pelham, NH. After buying a paper cup of tokens at the front desk, we meandered around playing whatever caught our eye, which included (among others) Arkanoid, Gauntlet Legends, Sailor … Keep reading



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La Main du Destin



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Updates for You

Yesterday I finished retyping and revising a 2008 essay about the Gods of Trollworld. It’s really about how history and legend gets distorted and turned into religion–how people can start believing their own press, even though they know what really […]Continue reading «Updates for You»

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Monkeys with low morals



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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland - 4 days to go!



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The General’s Virgin Slave by Georgia Fox

From snobby nerd babe to Roman warlord's sex show main attraction! Read all about it!

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Hot Summer Nights by Lisa Marie Perry

The plot of this story can be summed up as follow: YES! NO! YES! NO! YES!...

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Iphigenia and the Showman by Aubrey McKnight

An illusionist and a theater owner, ooh. But don't get too excited, it's not happening.

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Inked Adventures Map and Dice Playing Cards



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Post Position: Remarker #1 Is Out

This month I published a zine in the form of a bookmark. It’s available by asking me for a copy, asking a contributor for a copy, or going to my local radical bookstore, Bluestockings, at 172 Allen Street, New York, NY. If you wish to find Remarker there you must, alas, look under the register […]

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CYP Special Edition Covers!

Available now, suped-uped covers for all three paperback edition books. Like ’em? Let me know in the comments below. Want a copy? Check ’em out! And speaking of paperback books, if you’re interested in having me scribble on a book (or three), and happen to be in central Texas, come on by Hastings in Killeen for […]

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition monster – Grey

So here’s another paranormal staple that gets the AFF 2 treatment – the Grey alien, the go to alien for 90s paranormal and conspiracy theory pop culture.  Here are some stats for a grey and also a template for a half Grey hybrid (Greyblood) as, according to Nick Pope’s book, the Greys were trying to […]

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition monster – Grey

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition monster - Grey



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The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho

Why have a Chinese heroine flailing in 1920's England, if the author is going to just turn her into a Chinese Bridget Jones?

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Through the Funding Threshold and What Alice Found There



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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland - 5 days to go!



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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Web Interactive Fiction: Glulx-TypeScript Completed

So Thilo completed the basic implementation of glulx-typescript along with a basic angular2 sample project. It puts FyreVM into a webworker running in the “background”. With a small story it’s fine, but trying to run Shadow it’s definitely sluggish, although not entirely unplayable. A small note…I recompiled Shadow to reorder the Fyre_Calls as we want […]

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Summer of gamebook kickstarters

It is an exciting time, gamebook friends, with no less than five gamebook kickstarters this summer. So have a look at them and get your pledges ready! I’ve listed the kickstarters in reverse order of finishing date because I wanted some kind of order, but couldn’t decide on what would be best, so I just […]

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Summer of gamebook kickstarters



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Tabletop review: Rory's Story Cubes



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Winterfall by Denise A Agnew

It's always disappointing to come across a story with so much wasted potential.

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Tie-in Tuesday: Frostgrave - Tales of the Frozen City



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Monday, July 27, 2015

Sibyl Moon Games: How To Become a Game Dev

This isn’t a practical guide. I’m mostly not going to discuss tools, or schools, or techniques, and I won’t discuss how to get greenlit by Steam or featured in Polygon or afford your booth at PAX. Or get a job at Bethesda. (Though I wouldn’t mind a job at Bethesda. … Keep reading



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Sibyl Moon Games: Update to Table-Driven NPC Actions

After last Thursday’s article, Andrew Plotkin pointed out that I could have been using rules instead of activities. From his intfiction.org post:

 

“It will be simpler and take less overhead if you have a “rule” column and a bunch of one-off rules:

Code:
Table of Caleb  … Keep reading 


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What is your favourite fantasy world?



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Emily Short: A Wish for Something Better (Anna Anthropy)

The rules begin thus: “A Wish for Something Better is a single-player roleplaying ritual.” This is a work with light rules, designed to be played alone. It is meant to create a place of imagination in a focused way that … Continue reading


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Exit Strategy by Lena Diaz

I'm a bit lost especially during the first few chapters, but what the heck, PARTY CITY!

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Thought for the Day



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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Demo Story Available for “The Good, the Bad and the Undead”

Hello, Gamebooker fans! Ashton Saylor here, writing as a contributing author of Lloyd of Gamebooks. As you may or may not know, I’m collaborating with Jamie Thomson of Fabled Lands to write ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Undead,” a Weird West interactive novel. I like to describe it as ‘Clint Eastwood meets Night of […]

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Demo Story Available for "The Good, the Bad and the Undead"



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: 4 new talents.



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Sneak Preview

The pdf is already available. The book is being printed.  But even if you have the pdf you haven’t seen this yet, because the end pages hadn’t been designed yet when we sent the book to press. This was my […]Continue reading «Sneak Preview»

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Book review: Koko Takes a Holiday



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: A simpler way to power up spells



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The Vatican Tapes (2015)

Go watch The Omen or something - it'd be much better than this dreary waste of time.

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The Tempting of Thomas Carrick by Stephanie Laurens

The author wants to be a mystery author now. I guess, but her mysteries are straight out of clown school.

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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland around the Web



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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Lab of Jizaboz: A Day In DPRK demo released



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Demo Story Available for "The Good, the Bad and the Undead"



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Burn by Maya Banks

The only thing burned here is my poor brain. Oh, and my money too, let's not forget that. #BBHMM

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A storm is coming: a TORG primer



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What do you mean, you haven't backed the Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland Kickstarter yet?



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Gamebook Friday: So, what is a gamebook?



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Friday, July 24, 2015

Heat Wave of Desire by Yahrah St John

With its so typical story line and characters, this clumsily written and laborious read isn't worth the effort.

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Emily Short: Bloom (Caelyn Sandel)

Bloom is a substantial Twine story by Caelyn Sandel, being issued in episodes. (Because I’m writing some blog posts in advance of travel, there are only the prologue and two chapters available at writing time, but by the time you … Continue reading


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Tomorrow The Day Will Dawn...



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The Digital Antiquarian: A New Force in Games, Part 3: SCUMM

As part of a general rearranging of the deck chairs at Lucasfilm in late 1985, the Games Group got moved from their nondescript offices in San Rafael to nearby Skywalker Ranch, the “filmmaker’s retreat” at the very heart of George Lucas’s empire. They were housed in an ornate structure of Victorian brick called the Sable […]

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>TILT AT WINDMILLS: Hollywood Visionary and Gender



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Classic Adventure Solution Archive: CASA Update - 22 new game entries, 8 new solutions, 19 new maps, 1 new hints, 2 new clue sheets



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: A simpler way to power up spells



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Half in Harkuna



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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Sibyl Moon Games: Table-Driven NPC Actions in Inform 7

This post will discuss the code structure of 18 Rooms to Home: Room 15. It will not discuss anything except the code structure, so there aren’t any spoilers – but if you’d prefer to avoid all discussion whatsoever, this is a good post to skip.

Also, this post will … Keep reading



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Writing A Book In Two Weeks...



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Melis’s Gambit by Ann Gimpel

One-minute men, one-minute stories. Both are the same, do not engage unless you're really bored.

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Fabled Lands at #1



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Steampunk Thursday: Feel like a Duchess



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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Finally! The three main AD&D rulebooks are available on DTRPG and DnDClassics



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CYP#4: Rosie Complete!

Boom! Rosie’s story is complete. That sweet, sassy, spunky 17-year-old is ready for you to jump into her shoes and shout, “We can do it!” Up next? Sgt Sims.

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More Mapping Madness...



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Book review: The Empress Game



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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Yes, this is nowhere as good as the other book. But it can still cut my heart up into pieces.

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Roboteer Book Launch



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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Storycade: Visual Novel: Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls!

cherry tree high

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club is a cute little game that follows the adventure of Miley, a high school student on a quest to rebuild her school’s once great comedy club with the help of her friend Harriet and anyone else she can rope into her scheme.  Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls! is a […]

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Emily Short: Long Live the Queen (Hanako Games)

I’m not exactly getting to this one in a timely fashion. Long Live the Queen is a visual novel/sim that has been out for a couple of years now, and people have been telling me to play it, and I’ve … Continue reading


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YOU ARE THE HERO makes the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards 2015!



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Spotlight on: Reaper Miniatures



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Building a Castle...



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Falling Forward by Audrey Jane Andrews

It is such a fun story with a good dose of angst... until the heroine decides to end up with the hero.

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Monday, July 20, 2015

Lautz of IF: Trizbort Update 1.5.8.11 – Now supports ZIL

As the title says, there is a new Trizbort update.  1.5.8.11 is available over on the github release page (along with the code as usual).  This update is rather small in number of changes, though the ZIL support is a pretty cool addition. Text wrapping will now occur on dashes as well as spaces Redact […]


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Post Position: The Great Vowel Shift

My first PuzzleScript game is a concrete poem that, after a few levels, taunts you, the player, with a metapuzzle. It’s “The Great Vowel Shift.”

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Storycade: Interactive Cinema: Her Story

Her Story

This guest post was written by Bruno Dias. If you want to hear more from him, check him out on Twitter or his website.  Her Story (Sam Barlow) is a difficult thing to classify, because it’s premised on a clever hop across medium boundaries. We’re used to talking about interactive fiction as a near-synonym of interactive […]

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Preparing Sword of the Traitor, Day One



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Sibyl Moon Games: What? My perspective is evolving!

magikarp evolve

According to the PokĂ©dex, Magikarp is about 0.9 meters long, but Gyarados is 6.5 meters long. So once it evolves, it can’t fit in a duck pond any more.

Maybe that’s why Gyarados is always bad-tempered.

One … Keep reading



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Memorization rules for sorcery spells?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Memorization rules for sorcery spells?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: A simpler way to power up spells



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Casting spells while hands are bound?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Luck scores for monsters



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Tabletop review: Coup



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Thought for the Day



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The Duke’s Daring Debutante by Ann Lethbridge

Here's a display of how messy things can be when romance tropes are callously misused.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Not Quite Home by Kristine Bria

This one is not quite there yet. The basic premise is fine, but the execution is in shambles.

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Voyage by Zephyrium

There are times when these folks sound more like Sarah Brightman that Sarah Brightman does these days.

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Maddy and the Gambler by Aubrey McKnight

If this has been longer, maybe it'd be better. As it is, well, it's just okay.

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What you need to know about Warhammer: Age of Sigmar



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The Kickstarter's halfway through, so what are you going to do?



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Darkfall by Denise A Agnew

The story is meant to be suspenseful, but the heroine behaves like it's a boring field trip.

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Avoid Being a Skyscraper Builder! by John Malam

Who knew working in constructing the Empire State Building is this frightening?

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Ant-Man (2015)

Perhaps it is inevitable, but these Marvel superhero movies are starting to have a by-the-numbers feel.

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Emily Short: The Secret Language of Desire (Megan Heyward)

The Secret Language of Desire is an iPad app, enhanced with images and music and sound effects, which tells the story of a woman’s erotic awakening through a series of 27 short vignettes. It is available via iTunes, and will … Continue reading


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Blissful Summer by Cheris Hodges and Lisa Marie Perry

One fun story, one below average story.

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Book review: Throne of Glass



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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland - halfway there!



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • A simpler way to power up spells



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Casting spells while hands are bound?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Wizard light spell should last longer



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Wizard light spell should last longer



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: 4 new talents.



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Casting spells while hands are bound?



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Tin Man Games: Siege of the Necromancer



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Sharkpunk Saturday - Sharkpunk at the London Film and Comic Con



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Friday, July 17, 2015

Emily Short: Videogames for Humans (ed. Merritt Kopas)

I’ve mentioned the existence of this book before, but only recently did I get my own contributor copies of Videogames for Humans, an anthology of Twine playthroughs annotated by their players. (Here’s Robert Yang talking about the anthology; here’s me … Continue reading


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Choice of Games: Champion of the Gods: Will you serve the gods or overthrow them?

We’re proud to announce that Champion of the Gods, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 40% off until July 24th. In the battle to save your people, will you defy the gods? In an ancient world where myth is reality and fate is relentless, your destiny will lead you to secrets no mortal should ever know. “Champion of the Gods” is a thrilling 217,000-word interactive novel by Jonathan Valuckas, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by

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Choice of Games: New Hosted Game! “Samurai of Hyuga” by Devon Connell

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! It’s 25% off until July 24. Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don’t always win in the end. It’s a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you’re the toughest ronin around. A bodyguard, an assassin, a savior. Become all those things and more! Will you be able to change your ways and protect those around you? Or will you

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Champion of the Gods: Will you serve the gods or overthrow them?

We’re proud to announce that Champion of the Gods, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It’s 40% off until July 24th. In the battle to save your people, will you defy the gods? In an ancient world where myth is reality and fate is relentless, your destiny will lead you to secrets no mortal should ever know. “Champion of the Gods” is a thrilling 217,000-word interactive novel by Jonathan Valuckas, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by

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New Hosted Game! “Samurai of Hyuga” by Devon Connell

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! It’s 25% off until July 24. Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don’t always win in the end. It’s a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you’re the toughest ronin around. A bodyguard, an assassin, a savior. Become all those things and more! Will you be able to change your ways and protect those around you? Or will you

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The Digital Antiquarian: A New Force in Games, Part 2: A Habitat in Cyberspace

Shortly before the departure of Peter Langston from the Lucasfilm Games Group, he and Steve Arnold hired one Chip Morningstar as a tools programmer. The latter was coming off a stint spent working for Ted Nelson, a sort of philosopher of information management who had coined the terms “hypertext” and “hypermedia” back in the 1960s. […]

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Mini Yaz' 2015 - Ouverture des votes



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Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish and Other Strangeness



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ENGINES IGNITE!

Hi there!

We have been quite busy last days planning all the development and production of THE FRANKENSTEIN WARS. We have scheduled every task in order to get this gamebook as soon as possible.

There’s a lot of work to do, so a long summer with long workdays awaits us. Dave sent us tons of documents from Frankenstein’s Legions, Paul is already structuring the story while here, in the Cubus headquarters, we’re accurately defining every detail that will be implemented into the Cubus Engine.

We’re really excited with this project! 

Thank you, folks!



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Lone Wolf 7 - Castle Death playthrough



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JG at the LFCC



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Ties that bind



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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Casting spells while hands are bound?



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By Your Side by Candace Calvert

Hardly any story here, just drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, and drama.

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Stuff About Stuff: Ouch! 3 months since my last post.



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Post Position: You Have Been Offered ‘More Tongue’

I just put a new poetry generator up. This one was released in inchoate form at @party, the Boston area demoparty. I’ve finished it, now, writing an HTML page of 2kb that employs JavaScript to generate nonsense poems that I, at least, find rather amusing. ‘More Tongue’ is available in an expanded version (functioning the […]

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Sibyl Moon Games: Room 15 Status Update

I released Room 18, 17, and 16promised there would be 18 updates totalthanked people for sending bug reportsadmitted I’d misscoped the project… said I didn’t want to space rooms more than 3 weeks apart… and now it’s been radio silence for … Keep reading



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Love’s Gamble by Theodora Taylor

Gape in horror-awe as the author demonstrates how to turn a solid read into a horrific one within the last 50 pages.

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Battlecruiser Alamo: Aces High is on sale!



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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland: Join me down the rabbit-hole...



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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Emily Short: Dialogue: A Writer’s Story Demo (Tea Powered Games)

Dialogue: A Writer’s Story is the tale of Lucille, a woman who is stuck on a novel, and who goes to her friends and relatives to find inspiration and work past her difficulties. The full game is not yet available, … Continue reading


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Wade's Important Astrolab: Leadlight Gamma interview on IndieSider #26



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Warhammer Wednesday: Mission Games Workshop - Derby and Warhammer World



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Sonata for a Scoundrel by Anthea Lawson

A TBR Challenge 2015 review. A violinist humps his composer girlfriend 24/7 while her poor depressed brother can't catch a break.

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Thunderbirds are go



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La Mouise



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Monday, July 13, 2015

Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland - Dice and Playing Cards now available to backers!



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Luck scores for monsters



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These Heterogenous Tasks: Downfall

Downfall is a narrative tabletop RPG for exactly three players, by Caroline Hobbs. The Kickstarter launched today, after over two years in development. Teal deer: you should back and play it because it’s really good at developing and foregrounding interesting culture-oriented settings. A … Continue reading


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Check out this badass Canary Overdrive fanart



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La Dèche



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Sibyl Moon Games: New ChoiceScript Tool: RandomTest_NoDisp

The most useful built-in testing tool for ChoiceScript is the randomtest system.

But randomtest is becoming unusable for me. My game is choice-dense, and each time I run randomtest, it shows me every choice made by the random generator. Which means the recommended 10,000 iterations produce a result over … Keep reading



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Emily Short: The Magic Circle (TMC Games)

If that’s hard to read, here are the first couple of sentences: The gods of this world don’t know you, boss. But they’re scared of what you might do. They have to treat you like some reptile with a credit … Continue reading


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Thought for the Day



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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Emily Short: Delphina’s House (Alice Grove)

Delphina’s House is another of several ParserComp games that I didn’t have time to get to while the competition was actually in progress. It was widely liked by the comp judges, and came in 3rd overall and 2nd in the … Continue reading


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Voyage dans les Limbes



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textadventures.co.uk: Squiffy 4 – interactive fiction editor for Windows, OS X and Linux

Squiffy 4 is now available. This release brings the editor to Windows, OS X and Linux, so you can now create and edit games offline. Squiffy is a simple system for writing multiple-choice interactive fiction. It publishes to HTML so you can upload your game anywhere. The quickest way to see it in action is to check out […]


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The Claiming of a Virgin King by April Andrews

This is an actually pretty standard naughty fantasy story. Only, tentacles!

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Luck scores for monsters



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Casting spells while hands are bound?



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The Digital Antiquarian: Commodore: The Amiga Years

It was some years ago that I watched The World at War, the 26-episode documentary series on World War II that first ran on British television in 1973. Despite all the revelations of the years that followed its appearance — not least the role played by computing pioneers like Alan Turing in breaking Axis codes […]

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All’s Fair in Love and Scandal by Caroline Linden

And I'm the happiest of them all, because this story is so cute!

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Sharkpunk Saturday: Sharkpunk at Edge-Lit 4



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Friday, July 10, 2015

Deluxe T&T pdf is here

    uploaded to drivethrustuff last night–supporters who paid at least $14 to get the pdf version should have all been notified and given the code that will get them their copy. Everyone else will have a chance to buy […]Continue reading «Deluxe T&T pdf is here»

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Luck scores for monsters



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: The Caves of Death (a short adventure)



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Luck scores for monsters



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Casting spells while hands are bound?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: The Caves of Death (a short adventure)



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Emily Short: Eczema Angel Orifice (Porpentine)

Eczema Angel Orifice is an anthology of Porpentine’s work from the last several years, assembled into an application with a soundtrack by Brenda Neotenomie and authorial notes for each piece. Because Porpentine is prolific, there is a lot in the … Continue reading


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Walking Through the Cracks of History...



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The Digital Antiquarian: A New Force in Games, Part 1: Fractal Dreamers

There are at least two stories to tell about the way that George Lucas’s Star Wars movies changed the world. One is the tale of the impact the films themselves had on the culture of movie-making and movie-going. For better or for worse, the first Star Wars film ushered out the brief New Hollywood era of […]

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Ashfall by Denise A Agnew

This post-natural disaster romance has an interesting start, but it wastes little time in sputtering out of steam.

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: The Caves of Death (a short adventure)



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Has anyone tried the gamebook apps?



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Gamebook Friday: And the artist who will be illustrating Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland is...



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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Quickstart guide in Italian



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Steampunk Thursday: Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland / Pax Britannia: White Rabbit



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Sibyl Moon Games: We Can Do Better Than This

Warning: This post discusses violence, transphobia, mental illness, and sexual assault.

Every now and then, I ditch my plans for the day because I have something I need to talk about right now. Rainbows and Dance Parties! was written on a day like that. This post was written on … Keep reading



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Quickstart guide in Italian



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Wade's Important Astrolab: Vlad The Impaler review (on Steam - Mac /PC)



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Put Up Your Duke by Megan Frampton

I may have to take back most of the things I've said about the author in the past.

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Take another kick



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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Sibyl Moon Games: Contra Dance, Modern Squares, and Game Design

Contra dance

In addition to “up up down down left right left right B A”, contra dance is a form of New England folk dance. It’s a partnered dance performed in long lines of paired couples, described here on Wikipedia in more detail than I’m going to get … Keep reading



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Check out Canary Overdrive V4



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#41: Master Of Chaos



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Emily Short: Pry (Tender Claws)

PRY is an iOS story that combines video segments and text to explore the inner and outer worlds of a veteran who is still struggling to process his experiences in the war, who is suffering from vision impairment thanks to … Continue reading


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Web Interactive Fiction: FyreVM and FyreCall

As I’ve mentioned, I have two approaches in the works to implementing channel IO in a JS-based Glulx VM. One is a branch of quixe and the other is a new TypeScript implementation. I’ve been trying to come up with a name for all the I7 library code and I guess it’s just FyreVM. FyreVM […]

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1e Big News!



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Mr. Spock's Limp



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Okay, it’s time to be accused of spam and spend every other minute checking my email. That’s right, I’m running another Kickstarter!



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Preview of new gamebook illustrations

A preview teaser showing some of the recently completed illustrations for my Beyond the Morning Mountains gamebook. Approximately 75% of the adventure is now written, so progress continues to go as scheduled.

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Has anyone tried the gamebook apps?



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Monday, July 6, 2015

These Heterogenous Tasks: Microscope Explorer, three expansions for the Microscope RPG

Fractal history-building RPG Microscope was my introduction to modern storygames; within that niche of gaming, it’s kind of a foundational work. If you’re interested in GMless, narrative-focused, low-prep, and/or diceless tabletop role-playing games, or even just in history-focused world-building, it’s a … Continue reading


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A Dance with Danger by Jeannie Lin

Wait, didn't Harlequin push Jeannie Lin out the door? Anyway, hello again, welcome back.

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Jonathan Green Talks Alice’s Nightmare In Wonderland

This year a truly seminal work celebrates a landmark anniversary, as Lewice Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland turns 150 years old! Carroll’s unique blend of the fantastic and downright bizarre remains as popular as ever, with children of all ages continuing to enjoy Alice’s adventures in one form or another. But how best to pay [&hellip

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Thought for the Day



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Vote Goblinmaster!



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I’ve Got My Duke to Keep Me Warm by Kelly Bowen

But there is no logic to keep me happy, alas.

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Anus by Alaska Thunderfuck

Alaska Thunderfuck, glamtron alien, versus Alaska, the comedy queen turned AAA Girl. Who will emerge the victor?

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

The Original High by Adam Lambert

Haven't I heard this album before? Twice?

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Emily Short: Choose Your Own Autobiography (Neil Patrick Harris)

I’m not a big reader of celebrity memoirs, but this one came my way for Christmas: Neil Patrick Harris’ autobiography takes the form of a choose your own adventure book, in which Neil’s life story, together with some made up … Continue reading


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A Summer of Events



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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Terminator Genisys (2015)

If you want your fond memories of the early movies to be violated to pieces, then yes, watch this one.

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Siren (2010)

Well, at least the cast members are so pretty to look at.

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Secret Silver Nights by Zuri Day

The author has the ball rolling with sexual tension and comedy, so of course she shifts gears to romantic suspense. Sigh.

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Snarkiness or Fear? How to Write a Compelling Main Character



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Canary Overdrive free playtest



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Not on the nose!



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The Wondrous Nightmare Begins!

I wonder if, one day, Summer 2015 will be remembered as The Summer of Gamebook Kickstarters. We’ve recently seen the Kickstarter for the interactive fiction app The Frankenstein Wars – and, as one of the people intimately involved with that project, I’m overjoyed that we (just!) managed to reach our target. Thank you, thank you, […]

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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland is now live on Kickstarter!



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The Wondrous Nightmare Begins!



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The Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland Kickstarter launches today!



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Friday, July 3, 2015

Otherwise Engaged by Amanda Quick

The author goes back to "0% woo-woo" historical romance mode, but the romance is barely there.

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Article on simplifying NPCs



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: How in depth do you like your shopping lists?



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: How in depth do you like your shopping lists?



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New Hosted Game! “Double/Cross” by Toni Owen-Blue

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! In Double/Cross, by Toni Owen-Blue, you are the head bodyguard assigned to protect the richest, most powerful man in England. Enter a house filled with secrets and intrigue, and see if you can uncover the truth about the colourful cast that inhabits it. Choose between a host of romanceable characters, both male and female, but don’t forget to protect your own interests too. Will you abide by your contract or will you discard your morals for something more inviting? 85,000 word romantic drama. Make friends and

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Choice of Games: New Hosted Game! “Double/Cross” by Toni Owen-Blue

There’s a new game in our Hosted Games program ready for you to play! In Double/Cross, by Toni Owen-Blue, you are the head bodyguard assigned to protect the richest, most powerful man in England. Enter a house filled with secrets and intrigue, and see if you can uncover the truth about the colourful cast that inhabits it. Choose between a host of romanceable characters, both male and female, but don’t forget to protect your own interests too. Will you abide by your contract or will you discard your morals for something more inviting? 85,000 word romantic drama. Make friends and

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Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

Whom do I have to sacrifice chickens to, to turn this into an urban fantasy and not an icky romance?

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IFComp News: Entrants: register your forum handle

The website did grow one new feature relevant to IFComp entrants between the seasons: You may now, if you wish, specify your intfiction.org forum handle as part of your ifcomp.org user account.

If you are an entrant to this year’s competition, then registering your handle this way will allow the organizers to more quickly grant you access to the forum’s annual authors-only sub-forum, which appears around the comp’s entry deadline. As it’s not a public space, IFComp entrants can and do use this sub-forum to chat freely about the comp with each other and with organizers during the six-week judging period in October and November. (The rules otherwise forbid public discussion by authors about entries during these weeks.)

To set your forum handle via ifcomp.org if you already have an account there, simply visit your account page and fill in the appropriate form field. Otherwise, you’ll have an opportunity to provide your forum handle while setting up a new ifcomp.org account. If you don’t have a forum account now, you can always return and fill in your handle once you do.



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Gamebook Friday: Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland launches in 1 day's time!



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Emily Short: IF-related ideas in computational creativity: ICCC 2015

ICCC is a conference dedicated to computational creativity, which includes a wide spectrum of work: programs that create artwork and images, music generators, systems that invent metaphors and jokes, story and poetry creation systems. I gave the keynote, about Versu, … Continue reading


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My 100 page-a-day book challenge (and reading list)



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Sibyl Moon Games: Excuse Me, You Call This Clear Source Code?

Two years back, someone asked me to review some Inform 7 code and make some bugfixes. I opened the source in question, updated it to the latest version of Inform, cracked my knuckles, and loaded up the bug list.

I read the first bug.

I stared at the source code.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Phew



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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Article on simplifying NPCs



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Emily Short: Hollywood Visionary (Aaron Reed, Choice of Games)

Hollywood Visionary is a game by Aaron Reed, published by Choice of Games. And before I say a lot more about it, I need to put up a big disclaimer, because a) I beta-tested the game; b) I am currently … Continue reading


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These Heterogenous Tasks: A Year Without Zombies 7: Bring Out Your Dead

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) The Steam summer sale entirely failed … Continue reading


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The Digital Antiquarian: Pirates!

Shortly after designing and programming F-15 Strike Eagle, the million-selling hit that made MicroProse’s reputation as the world’s premier maker of military simulations, Sid Meier took a rare vacation to the Caribbean. Accompanying him was his new girlfriend, whom he had met after his business partner Wild Bill Stealey hired her as one of MicroProse’s […]

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Inheriting Evergreen by LK Campbell

It should have been a bit longer.

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Steampunk Thursday: 2 days to go until Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland goes live!



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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Frankenstein Wars has less than 2 hours left and 230 Euros to raise! Please support it!

You can read some of Paul Gresty’s wonderful posts on how awesome the Frankenstein Wars is, but please do that after backing it because there is so little time left! from Lloyd of Gamebooks http://ift.tt/1LEQAlQ via IFTTT

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10. Desafio dos Campeões

TĂ­tulo original em InglĂŞs: Trial of Champions TĂ­tulo em PortuguĂŞs (PT): O Desafio dos Campeões Numeração original:# 21 Autor: Ian Livingstone Lançamento: Setembro de 2012 Ilustrações: Brian Williams Ilustração da capa por: Lobo Borges e Thiago Ribeiro Tradução para PortuguĂŞs-BR: Gustavo Brauner Quando seu barco Ă© atacado e destruĂ­do por uma sinistra galĂ©, vocĂŞ nĂŁo […]

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Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • The Caves of Death (a short adventure)



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Storycade: Visual Novel: Bionic Heart 2

Bionic Heart 2

Recently my editor asked me to review Bionic Heart 2, either because she really enjoyed my review of the first game or actually hates me with a passion, possibly because I’ve started coming over to her apartment 5 out of 7 days of the week and encouraging her fiancĂ© to steal her socks.  I told […]

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Kindle Unlimited, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Amazon...



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These Heterogenous Tasks: Fall of Magic

The immediate draw of Ross Cowman’s successfully-Kickstarted storygame Fall of Magic is that it’s a really cool artifact: the game comes as a physical scroll of silk-screened cloth, which you unroll to reveal a map as the story progresses. The act … Continue reading


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My Complete and Utter Cthulhu Bibliography

I had been playing AD&D for about four years when the first edition of Call of Cthulhu was published in 1981. Although I wasn’t terribly familiar with Lovecraft’s work at the time, I liked the fact that it was a horror game set in the real world of the 20th century. Initially I thought it […]

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IFComp News: The 2015 IFComp is open for entries

The day has arrived once again: the twenty-first Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is now open for entry registration and prize donation. Please visit www.ifcomp.org to learn all about the competition and register entries.

We just installed a new schedule page, but the most important two dates for entrants at this point are these:

  • All intents to enter must be submitted by September 1 (11:59 PM, Eastern time).

  • All games must be submitted by September 28 (ibid).

As always, we welcome any inquiries you may have about the IFComp via email: ifcomp@ifcomp.org. You may wish to follow the IFComp on Twitter, as well.

Last year was the first under new management in quite some time, so the IFComp has seen a few rules or structural changes since July 1, 2014. Among the most important ones to note:

Finally, it’s time to build the prize pool again! The IFComp welcomes prizes of most any form or magnitude. If you’d like to donate a prize to the pool, please contact the organizers.



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The Sanctuary by Arika Stone

This is a pleasant little surprise, but the last few chapters are a big let down.

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3 days left until the Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland Kickstarter launches...



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