Review of the Year - 2015

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Robin of Sherwood: The Knights of the Apocalypse

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Emily Short: November Link Assortment

Upcoming events: Boston, Dec 2: Purple Blurb at which Christian Bok will read from The Xenotext. Copenhagen, Dec 2-4: ICIDS conference meets, with keynotes by Chris Crawford and Paul Mulholland. This is an academic conference in digital storytelling that in … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015 Guest Post: Janice M. Eisen on Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!

As part of the ongoing project to get new reviewers talking about IF Comp games, Janice M. Eisen has written about Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! Janice is a long-time player of parser IF who beta-tested for Infocom. “Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!” is a … Continue reading →

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Resurrection Complication Tables

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Renga in Blue: Sub Rosa: Finishing

By Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy. Now finished, using several hints. (Continued from previous post) From where I left off I had some pure puzzle solving to do. I had a pretty strong determination to avoid hints but after 7 hours (including an hour and a half of pure flailing) I broke down and checked, […]

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Emily Short: Dynamic Fiction via Some Examples

“Dynamic fiction” is a term suggested by Caelyn Sandel some months ago to describe her work, especially but not limited to her serial story Bloom. As I understand it (and I hope I’m not misrepresenting too much here), the term … Continue reading →

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015 Guest Post: Lucian Smith on Ether

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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Thought for the Day

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)

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: Two Encounters in the Woods

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: a couple of games I beta-tested

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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The Digital Antiquarian: Plundered Hearts

Amy Briggs first discovered text adventures during the early 1980s, when she was a student at Macalester University in her home state of Minnesota. Her boyfriend there worked at the local computer store, and introduced her to the joys of adventuring via Scott Adams’s Ghost Town. But she only became well and truly smitten — […]

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: Kane County (Michael Sterling, Tia Orisney)

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: Windhammer Prize 2015: Isaac Newton: Badass Ninja Crimefighter (Stuart Lloyd)

The 2015 Windhammer Prize is now running, which means you can download and play any of the 16 PDF gamebooks entered; if you play a reasonable number of them, you may also judge the competition by submitting a list of … Continue reading →

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The Duke I’m Going to Marry by Meara Platt

No, not marry. Try instead "ram my fist down his throat because SHUT UP ALREADY, YOU TIRED-ASS DRAMA QUEEN!"

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Fleur de Nuit by Cat Montmorency

The heroine's name is Moira Elenor D'Arcangelis. Yes, it's that kind of story.

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Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland - 2 hours to go!

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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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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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