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7 blogs about Games.

  1. BlogNomic: The Third Dynasty of Misty
    An online game of Nomic: the game in which changing the rules is a move. More info

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    Rename the rule “Guesses {M}” to “Guesses {I}” and reword its text as follows: Each Participant may have a single Guess, or may have no Guess, and defaults to having no Guess. Guesses are publicly …
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  2. Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
    Narrative in games and new media. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Dialogue Expressiveness in Mask of the Rose
    Mask of the Rose is a dating-and-murder-mystery virtual novel set in Failbetter’s Fallen London universe. In line with that genre, it typically gives the player between two and four dialogue choices for conversation – occasionally …
    By Emily Short, 1,405 words
  3. Grand Text Auto
    A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Narcissystem
    I’m in Canada today — Toronto, specifically — to celebrate the publication of Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. (ed. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Nick Montfort, MIT Press & Counterpath 2024) in conversation with Matt …
    By Nick Montfort, 234 words
  4. Ludicrously Niche
    A blog which mostly discusses film, television and obscure adventure gamebooks published in the 1980s. By Christopher Wickham. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Perils of Cliff Hanger
    The above is a typical specimen of Cliff Hanger, the British comics character who enjoyed a four-year stint in Fleetway Publications' Buster from 1983 to 1987 with a strip that was part comic, part adventure …
    By Christopher Wickham, 269 words
  5. Play the Past
    Dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined). 🇺🇸 More info

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    Conquering the Curriculum: Learning Social Studies from Crusader Kings II
    Joel is a MA student in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto, where he plans to research the empathetic potentials of digital roleplaying. If he’s not playing and dissecting a strategy …
    By Joel White, 2,805 words
  6. v21 | Blog
    v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Downpour is out!
    Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don’t know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, …
    1,303 words
  7. Zarf Updates
    Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on. By Andrew Plotkin. 🇺🇸 More info

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    2025 IGF nominees, quick takes
    IGF finalists were announced yesterday. I don't have a pile of reviews queued up for this year, but I can at least post my quick comments. (The only new review in this post:) Thank Goodness …
    By Andrew Plotkin, 983 words