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 5 hours ago
And the Best Picture Award goes to…...
New Award: Best Picture Award Update Criteria to include: An Authentic Shot’s Quality Score is equal to the total Satisfying Count of all satisfied criteria by all Seekers that respond and score a Snap. Update …
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Narrative in games and new media.
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Updated 4 months 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
Future Thinking
Professor Flanagan participated in the Ditchley Foundation’s thinktank on the “Impact of AI on work and education.” Focusing on the large questions of our time, the group debated questions such as, “Should we be adopting …
By Mary Flanagan, 113 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 4 days ago
From the Topper
This is the cover of the 1968 edition of The Topper Book, the annual super-sized hardback edition of the weekly British humour comic. As is frequently the case for comics annuals, it depicts several of …
By Christopher Wickham, 331 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 a month ago
How Ubisoft Got Machiavelli Wrong in Assassin’s Creed
About the author: Iván Goldman is a political scientist from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a Researcher at the Meridiano Foundation and the Argentinean Foreign Policy Research Group (GIPEA) of the Faculty …
By Iván Goldman, 3,130 words
v21 | Blog
v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK.
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Updated 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Oh, that's what happened to Kickstarter
A couple of years ago I wrote about "That Kickstarter news". The "news" was blockchain crap. I pointed out that an open-source protocol for crowdfunding project tracking was a pretty neat idea, but blockchain doesn't …
By Andrew Plotkin, 1,249 words