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Masters and Doctoral Theses on Serious Games
A list maintained by Katrin Becker at SFU, ‘Serious Games Pathfinder‘: The following is a list of Master’s and Doctoral theses that have been completed that have to do with serious g… more →
Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research
Lua Text Adventures
gvx wrote 1 month ago: I’ve made a small, flexible Lua library to write text adventures. Barely over two hundred line … more →
APPraisal: Frotz
zarkseven wrote 1 month ago: ‘Appy Monday Interaction Fiction fans! For those who don’t know, Interactive Fiction (I … more →
Masters and Doctoral Theses on Serious Games
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Shawn wrote 2 months ago: A list maintained by Katrin Becker at SFU, ‘Serious Games Pathfinder‘: The following is … more →
Verbosity
Tench Ringgold wrote 3 months ago: Dreadfully sorry about the lateness of this post. I chose verbosity because it is obviously a namsak … more →
Zork to Get Overhaul.
wilsonscrazybed wrote 5 months ago: It will look a lot like this. Seeing the imminent success of the Monkey Island, Activision is hard … more →
Sound Effects and Music in Interactive Fiction
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amethystgames wrote 7 months ago: This has recently received some debate in the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup, but I felt that perhap … more →
Having to Open Doors in IF: Bad Form?
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amethystgames wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been beta-testing Realm of Obsidian for a few weeks now, and two of my testers told me th … more →
Interactive Fiction in Widescreen?
amethystgames wrote 9 months ago: This is a bit of irony. I just purchased a new computer system. Some specs: Pentium Dual-Core E5200 … more →
Realm of Obsidian Enters Beta
amethystgames wrote 9 months ago: That’s right, Realm of Obsidian has finally entered the beta stage. Check this page for some basic i … more →
What is Interactive Fiction? And why?
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amethystgames wrote 9 months ago: Here I am. First blog, first post. And based around interactive fiction. Some of my friends in real … more →
blue chairs/don't eat the mushroom
owl wrote 11 months ago: Blue Chairs — an IF game from a few years back with a drug trip/wistful love story plot. I played th … more →
Hurrah, I'm a Geek
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shanoah wrote 1 year ago: Someone might think I’m a geek? They’d be right, Sean. I am a geek. And this is not part … more →
Insurance Labyrinth Adventure
Bob wrote 1 year ago: My first computer was a TRS-80. While it could display blocky graphics in black and white, many of … more →
Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities
Shawn wrote 1 year ago: In my inbox this morning, a notice of what looks like a fantastic opportunity: Call for Papers: 3rd … more →
And there was light, and it was good.
Jules wrote 1 year ago: Happily, I’m getting back into the swing of things. Most of my descriptions are done, in that … more →
Gradius: The Text Adventure
Autochon wrote 1 year ago: “You fly into the object, which appears to be an energy source (power up). As the Vic Viper a … more →
Creative Challenges
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Jules wrote 1 year ago: I consider myself to be a good writer, in the conventional sense. I know that I enjoy reading what … more →
Interactive Fiction, Passively
Shawn wrote 1 year ago: PMOG:The Passively Multiplayer Online Game An interesting feature of Pmog ‘missions’ is … more →
Text-based virtual worlds: an archaeological MOO
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Shawn wrote 1 year ago: Who says immersive learning or virtual worlds have to be in 3D? Text-based worlds solve a lot of pro … more →
