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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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    Look Out!
    Perform the Spotting Danger atomic action 3 times.
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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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    It just came out! Mary has a chapter in…
    The new book, edited by Réjane Dreifuss / Simon Hagemann / Izabella Pluta (eds.) Live Performance and Video Games Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers 2024. Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the …
    By Mary Flanagan, 127 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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    Dystopian Fiction/Double Feature
    In 1985, the thirteenth Fighting Fantasy gamebook, Freeway Fighter, was published, the seventh entry in the range to be written by its co-creator Ian Livingstone. The book is a significant departure from the swords-and-sorcery Livingstone …
    By Christopher Wickham, 138 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, …
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  7. Zarf Updates
    Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on. By Andrew Plotkin. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Winter mystery games
    Yes, it's winter. We got a dusting of snow, which isn't definitive (ask me about the Halloween snowstorm of 2011). But I've decided that December 8th was "Nighthawk's Solstice": Today we observe Nighthawk’s Solstice: the …
    By Andrew Plotkin, 1,310 words