Ron Newcomb: Bronies, Smashers and Others Battle Cancer - by Ron Newcomb

Want to have your game as a star attraction at EVO, the world's biggest fighting game tournament? Beat Bronies and Smashers alike in a battle for cancer awareness.

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The Digital Antiquarian: A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy!

February 3, 1976 An Open Letter to Hobbyists To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books, and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market? Almost […]

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The Digital Antiquarian: A Little Christmas Gift

This being the time of year for such things, I have a little surprise that I hope some of you might really enjoy. I get asked on a fairly regular basis whether this blog will ever become a book — or, more likely, a series of books. While I do have aspirations in that direction, […]

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Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan

Now I remember why I don't like kids. Sneaky little bastards, all of them.

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Emily Short: 6Quest and the Hungarian Gamebook Scene

6Quest is Hungarian interactive fiction based on a gamebook series. The creators are currently running a Kickstarter to have the app translated into English for a wider audience. I was able to find this list of Hungarian gamebooks by Demian … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: A Conversation with Ruber Eaglenest about ZFiles

Z Files: Infection is a project currently being Kickstarted, an interactive comic book set in a zombie universe. I talked with Ruber Eaglenest, aka El Clerigo Urbatain, about the project, and how it works as an interactive comic, as interactive fiction, … Continue reading →

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The Digital Antiquarian: The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster

In the years following Jack Tramiel’s departure, Commodore suffered from a severe leadership deficit. The succession of men who came and went from the company’s executive suites with dizzying regularity often meant well, were often likable enough in their way. Yet they were also weak-willed men who offered only timid, conventional ideas whilst living in […]

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015 Guest Post: Duncan Stevens on Map

This post is part of an ongoing project to bring more voices to the IF Comp conversation. I have been reaching out to players and authors who aren’t part of the intfiction community, and also to some veteran intfiction denizens … Continue reading →

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Renga in Blue: IFComp 2015: SPY INTRIGUE

By furkle. Played on iPhone. Not finished. SPY INTRIGUE is a Twine game about someone who enters a futuristic spy school and goes on missions. This is a terrible way to describe the actual feeling of playing. First, to clarify, “Not Finished” is not because I got frustrated or something like that: SPY INTRIGUE is […]

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015 Guest Post: Brendan Desilets on Untold Riches

This post is part of an ongoing project to bring more voices to the IF Comp conversation. I have been reaching out to players and authors who aren’t part of the intfiction community, and also to some veteran intfiction denizens … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: Onaar (Robert DeFord)

The 21st annual Interactive Fiction Competition is currently on, through mid-November. Voting is open to the general public; the only prerequisite is that you not be an author, not vote on games that you tested, and submit votes on at … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015 Roundup

I have now reviewed all the comp games I am going to review, though some of the reviews have yet to be published. Most recent years I’ve done an end-of-comp roundup (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007) in which … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: The Problems Compound (Andrew Schultz)

The 21st annual Interactive Fiction Competition is currently on, through mid-November. Voting is open to the general public; the only prerequisite is that you not be an author, not vote on games that you tested, and submit votes on at … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: September Link Assortment

Not really a link as such, but: if you’re used to contacting me at emshort@mindspring.com, I am phasing out that email address — I’ve been having more and more cases issues with undelivered attachments, missing messages, etc. And who uses … Continue reading →

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The People's Republic of IF: October (and November) meetup

The Boston IF meetup for October will be Monday, October 12, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. We also have a date for the November meetup: it will be Wednesday, November 11. Emily Short will be a visiting guest for the November meeting. Don’t forget BostonFIG is tomorrow (the 12th) at MIT! Many games will be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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Emily Short: Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan)

Secret Agent Cinder is a retelling of the Cinderella story, except not: though you dress up and dance with fancy people, it’s really about espionage and sneaking about at Versailles shortly before the French Revolution. It belongs to that small … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: Lithomobilus / NonBinary Review / The Strangely-Browne Episode

Lithomobilus is a free reader app that advertises itself as being for non-linear storytelling: Lithomobilus is the first e-book platform that augments existing narrative forms and makes entirely new nonlinear narratives, without eliminating the things that make books wonderful. Our … Continue reading →

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The Digital Antiquarian: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

Ken Williams had always loved Softporn, right from the day he first discovered it and spent three or four hours obsessively playing it. It became on that day the only adventure game, ever, that he sat down and solved all by himself, just like any ordinary fan. And yet, while Softporn turned into a huge […]

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Warrior of Ice by Michelle Willingham

A lot of things here need to be iced, starting with that heroine.

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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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