BlogNomic: The Third Dynasty of Misty
An online game of Nomic: the game in which changing the rules is a move.
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Updated 9 hours ago
Look Out!
Perform the Spotting Danger atomic action 3 times.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Narrative in games and new media.
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Updated a year ago
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
Grand Text Auto
A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.
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Updated a month ago
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
Ludicrously Niche
A blog which mostly discusses film, television and obscure adventure gamebooks published in the 1980s.
By Christopher Wickham.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
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
Play the Past
Dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined).
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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
v21 | Blog
v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK.
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Updated 9 months ago
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, …
Zarf Updates
Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on.
By Andrew Plotkin.
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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