Far from plunging us into darkness, Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} provides brilliant and multifaceted reflections on a rapid, serial electronic literature work. (You can read Bottomless Pit for free online, by the way, in ELCv1 and on Poundstone’s site.) The party that sets out on the […]
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
IFComp News: Three new serial IFs by past IFComp champs
There currently exist no fewer than three in-progress episodic IF works by authors who have released top-ten-finishing IFComp works in past years. These are those of which I am aware, in alphabetical order (am I missing any?):
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18 Rooms to Home by Carolyn VanEseltine (One Eye Open, 2010; Beet the Devil, 2011; Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, 2013) presents the same world with each chapter, except larger by one room (in the parser-IF sense), containing that much more possibility for exploration and discovery. The first chapter contains only the end of the story, and it grows backwards from there.
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Bloom by Caelyn Sandel (One Eye Open, 2010), is a lightly interactive hypertext about the gradual acceptance of one Andy Blumenthal, well into a lifetime of assumed-masculine gender identity, that she is in truth a woman named Cordy.
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Feu de Joie by Alan DeNiro (Solarium, 2013) puts the player into the role of a QA specialist testing a digitized catalog of century-old essays, just as things start to get a bit weird. Includes feelies, as well as some optional content for the player to discover elsewhere on the internet.
Worth noting: all three series are supported by their respective creators’ Patreons, the links to which you can find from the games’ respective websites.
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These Heterogenous Tasks: Night Witches: an RPG about WW2 Soviet airwomen
The Eastern Front, WW2. The USSR was on the back foot; the Red Army was badly unprepared, Stalin having purged its officer corps and ignored the threat of invasion. Nazi goals here were different: the English and French were honourable enemies, but Slavs … Continue reading →
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Liar’s Island by Tim Pratt
The author believes that his hero is awesome. Reality disagrees - vehemently.
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Covert Affairs by MJ Eason
Interesting story for a change, but the romance just doesn't work. Not even a bit. Sorry!
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Z-Machine Matter: Lights Out Old Time Radio
I recently ran across the Lights Out old time radio (OTR) show from the '30s and '40s. I've always been a fan of the old Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio shows. Lights Out predates these and has a uniquely gripping, if occasionally gruesome, style. These stories have a...
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