Showing posts with label interactive fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interactive fiction. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2024

On "Sudden Death" by Cecile Richard, nat_pussy, and isyourguy

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As a fellow gay Australian Rules Football gamemaker , I am honor bound to write about Sudden Death  by Cecile Richard and nat_pussy with h...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Capsule reviews, vol. 1

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Capsule reviews are short critiques of games that I've been playing. In this post, I discuss Heaven's Vault, Virginia, Islanders,...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Notes on "Sparkling Dialogue", a great narrative design / game writing talk by Jon Ingold at AdventureX 2018

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My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Darner's Digest, vol. 2: Why I made two new Yarn tools

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Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. Last time, I talked about some Yarn community ne...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Darner's Digest, vol. 1

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Darner's Digest is a series of occasional posts about the game dialogue system Yarn. As I've written before , there are a varie...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Writing stories / dialogue for Unity games with Yarn

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I've been using Yarn for a little while, and I've grown to prefer it as my "talking to NPCs" solution for game developm...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Videogames for Humans, edited by Merritt Kopas

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The first reaction most people had was, "it's bigger than I expected." 575 pages to be exact. But that obfuscates the actual...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Castle of the Red Prince, by CEJ Pacian

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CEJ Pacian is probably the best short-form IF writer today. His (?) writing is usually firmly grounded in a genre -- Gun Mute in Mad Max...
Friday, January 25, 2013

More talk, more rock: on algorithmic game narratives, speculative narrative design futures, and "Shakespeare."

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Last time, I wrote about procedural narrative in the context of "process intensity." Here, I expand more on designing the proce...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Recent happenings at New Statesman

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Liz Ryerson recently linked here in her "recommended game criticism reading list" at the New Statesman, and John Brindle recently...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How to Make Games with Twine

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Public service announcement: Anna Anthropy has written a great short tutorial on making games using Twine -- it's perfect for people w...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Return to Zobeide.

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To tell the truth, I had kind of forgotten about Zobeide . My Twine / Unity interface experiment , instead of being my own version of Unm...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

How to integrate Unity and Twine.

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EDIT, 16 May 2013: Unity has changed their Browser to Web Player communications, but just a little. Basically, you don't use "get...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Rule Databases for Contextual Narrative... and spelling bees.

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Valve's Elan Ruskin gave a fantastic talk at GDC 2012 on using "Rule Databases for Contextual Dialog and Game Logic" -- ba...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Unmanned, by Molleindustria

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I'm a bit late to the party, but Unmanned  is probably one of the best games I've played in a while. It's a fantastic use of i...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

On process intensity and procedural narrative: either don't try, gameify, fill a plot, be bushy, tell a world or pass the buck?

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For my master's thesis (no, not Pilsner , though I still like the idea and I'm going to re-work it more as a single player puzzle ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Ludodiegesis, or Pinchbeck's unified field theory of FPS games, or "please pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

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photo by National Media Museum , "You want a piece of me?!" I'm reading (fellow frontiersman of modding) Dan "Dear Es...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Byzantine Perspective: on IF, adapting it to the FPS

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Text is special. It can do things that voice acting can't; it can do things visuals can't. (How? Well, Kenneth Young explains this r...