Category Archives: INTERACTIVE FICTION

INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Stuff

Well, there’s just no way I can think about getting another job when Dennis Jerz brings even more "reading" into my life, resurrecting interactive fiction (of the text sort) with a couple of entries this morning on new writing software … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Bit of History

Nice rundown on the base of interactive children’s books by if.books complete with pictures to call up memories to help us understand direction of the written word. I’d never had the opportunity between generations to come across the My Adventure … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Quoth

Wow.  Looks like some neat new stuff happening in IF with sound and relationships.  Check out Quoth. (Thanks to Dennis Jerz for the link) Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Media

Whew and neat-o! From J-Walk Blog, this weird little scenario called Hotel, an Interactive Tale that combines hypertext with IF, a plot of sorts and visuals. With any luck, this is the kind of stuff I’ll be just tasting in … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Lost Again

Here’s a category I haven’t posted to in a long while–Interactive Fiction. It’s another of those things I WANT to get back into, but along with the pile of unread books, has been woefully neglected. Luckily, one of our writers … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Dreams

Just came home from a visit with Michael at Twists & Turns and it was an odd visit at that. I began reading his post, “Last Night’s Adventure” and read through to the end before realizing he was describing a … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Course in Writing

As part of our writing group, we are particularly interested in new media methods of narrative as well as working in the old fashioned (computerized text, which still crosses several boundaries) methods of writing and story telling. To get a … Continue reading Continue reading

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WRITING & New Media: Joellyn Rock

I’m back to old habits of last year already, three hours into the New Year, but I think you’ll all find this as exciting and inspirational a website as I have. Via Stick Your Neck Out, I wandered onto the … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Savoir Faire

How much more excitement can you get: You’re in the deserted mansion of your father looking for money, find a contraption on the table, open it to reveal — a clove of garlic. Love this type of format for it’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE, READING, WRITING, IF, ALL of it!!!

So here’s the plan: In the weeks before Christmas, we’re going to put on a big push for reading, writing and interacting as gift-giving ideas. When I was a kid (and I have plenty of pictures of my sisters and … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Adventures of Helpful Man

Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa! I was smart enough to take Inventory early in the game. As a superhero, I have some handy James Bond-like stuff in my belt, and I was even smart enough to eXamine each item and find out … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Square One

Relax all you IF fans; Square One is not a brand new game that I stumbled across and you didn’t know about yet. I’m referring to going back to square one in getting back into the IF mode. I was … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Education

In finding out that in fact I must take an additional 4 courses to obtain a Liberal Arts degree, it occurred to me that computer media courses were not included nor even left as options in the program. How odd, … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: At Long Last

Another brief sojourn into the twisted mind of some techie-tainted writer. I finally was able to spend but a few minutes playing—no, interacting—with Anchorhead. Once more I am reminded of my smallness as I scurry like a rat around a … Continue reading Continue reading

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Carrot on A Stick

I must organize my time to accomplish some measure of doneness to both the wannados and the haftados. I haven’t had the chance to go back to Anchorhead and get in much deeper than I’ve gone before. It’s like that … Continue reading Continue reading

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