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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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 …
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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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
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 a week ago
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
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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Updated 3 months ago
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 10 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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Updated 5 days ago
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