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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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    Peer Review
    With unanimity reached by players on the DoV, it seems safe to start a post-dynastic discussion thread.
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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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    Digest This
    The Beano and Dandy Comic Libraries were digest-sized spin-offs of the two full-size comics, which were published at the rate of four per month (two Beanos and two Dandys) from 1982 to 1997. Each one …
    By Christopher Wickham, 267 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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    Remembering Kory Heath
    We learned yesterday that we lost game designer Kory Heath. Sad news—my dear friend and collaborator, Kory Heath, after enduring years of chronic pain and depression, ended his life. He was a genius, also funny, …
    By Andrew Plotkin, 422 words