Renga in Blue: IFComp 2015: Second Story

By Fred Snyder. Completed. First attempted on iPhone, then played on computer with Firefox browser. Used walkthrough once to overcome a parser issue. Hector smirks. “I seem to remember you were an okay second-story man.” “I was never a man.” “You know what I mean, lady. You wanna see your brother again, you got a […]

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Emily Short: IF Comp 2015: Two Short Parser Puzzle Games

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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Doug's World: blogging the blurbs

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IFComp 2015: Second Story

By Fred Snyder. Completed. First attempted on iPhone, then played on computer with Firefox browser. Used walkthrough once to overcome a parser issue. Hector smirks. “I seem to remember you were an okay second-story man.” “I was never a man.” “You know what I mean, lady. You wanna see your brother again, you got a […]

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Doug's World: Birdland (a review)

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Ratings War — Win market share in the news wars of 2061!

We’re proud to announce that Ratings War, 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 33% off until October 9th. Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Record your way through dystopian New Angeles, solving multiple murders and conquering the airwaves as you go! “Ratings War” is a thrilling 80,000-word interactive novel by Eddy Webb, 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. Outwit your rivals at

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Try Bookburners from Serial Box, created by Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless, is working on a delightful new serialized (non-interactive) novel, Bookburners, with our friends at Serial Box. (Serial Box is like HBO for books: top-shelf writing in weekly episodes.) Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like

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Choice of Games: Try Bookburners from Serial Box, created by Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless, is working on a delightful new serialized (non-interactive) novel, Bookburners, with our friends at Serial Box. (Serial Box is like HBO for books: top-shelf writing in weekly episodes.) Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad: Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum. Together they stand between humanity and magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like

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Choice of Games: Ratings War — Win market share in the news wars of 2061!

We’re proud to announce that Ratings War, 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 33% off until October 9th. Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Record your way through dystopian New Angeles, solving multiple murders and conquering the airwaves as you go! “Ratings War” is a thrilling 80,000-word interactive novel by Eddy Webb, 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. Outwit your rivals at

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sub-Q Magazine: How to Get Published in 7 Simple Steps (Even If You’re Not the Best)

  You write. You love writing. And you want your work to be read. But maybe you’re not a super A+ award-candidate kind of author. Maybe that’s not in your cards. Maybe you want to know how to get published, even if you’re not the best around. It’s possible. I’m proof. Not everyone can belt […]

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The Digital Antiquarian: The Lurking Horror

Given the demographics of many readers of H.P. Lovecraft, not to mention players of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, it was inevitable that the Cthulhu Mythos would make it to the computer. The only real surprise is that it took all the way until 1987 for the first full-fledged digital work of Lovecraftian horror to […]

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Doug's World: Past IF comp reviews

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Emily Short: Lifeline 2 (3 Minute Games)

I just have to grab a few things on my way back to New Tenacity. Artifacts, you know. Objects of intense mystical power. The usual. Lifeline 2 is a sequel in form, not in content, to the tremendously successful Lifeline … Continue reading →

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Wade's Important Astrolab: IFComp 2015 review: Arcane Intern (Unpaid) by Astrid Dalmady

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Wade's Important Astrolab: IFComp review: 5 Minutes to Burn Something! by Alex Butterfield

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Breaking the butterfly

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These Heterogenous Tasks: IF Comp 2015 Preamble / Blurb-Judging

The Interactive Fiction Competition, the year’s biggest event for interactive fiction opens its doors today. This means lots of new IF releases, and – almost as fun, to my mind – it means lots of writing about IF. This year there are a … Continue reading →

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The Digital Antiquarian: Patreon Security Breach

As some of have probably already heard, there was a recent security breach on the Patreon website. Apparently a mirror of the site that was intended for testing and development purposes was left exposed on the Internet at large and hacked. Data dumps of the whole thing are already out there on the usual torrent […]

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Sibyl Moon Games: Foiled by my rusty CSS

Today’s cool thing is coming tomorrow, because CSS is not one of my specialties.

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These Heterogenous Tasks: CYOA Structures: Windhammer 2015

The Windhammer Prize is an annual competition for gamebooks – which, in this context, means pen-and-paper state-tracking CYOA. I’m not going to review every entry – just a smattering of the more interesting ones. The event’s rules require that entries include quite … Continue reading →

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