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Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating
Curveship is an interactive fiction system that provides a world model (of characters, objects, locations, and things that happen) while also modeling the narrative discourse, so that the narration and description of the simulated world can change. Curveship can tell events out of order, using flashback and other techniques, and can tell the story from the standpoint of particular characters and their perceptions and understandings.
lit  if  python  weird 
february 2011 by bkerr
Andrew de Quincey's livejournal - KIF: an infocom text adventure interpreter for the kindle
kindle  if 
october 2010 by bkerr
Django snippets: Smart {% if %} template tag
django  templates  if 
march 2009 by bkerr
iphonefrotz -- Frotz Z-Machine Interpreter for iPhone
apple  iphone_old  zmachine  if  terp  inform  infocom  narrative  adventure  multitouch  text  ui  remediation  the-dome-is-unclimbable  zork 
august 2007 by bkerr
Digital Humanities Quarterly | Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky
Pretty awesome. If you get bored (but you won't) make sure to read the "Photographic Walkthrough" section.
lit  text  games  if  narrative  cartography  mapping  spelunking  adventure  remediation  colossal-cave  clock1  clock2  the-dome-is-unclimbable  via:vielmetti 
august 2007 by bkerr
del.icio.us/bkerr/storytime
A very short "choose your own adventure" style hypertext story using the new tag descriptions feature in del.icio.us. (The previous couple of bookmarks were noise from linking the different parts of the story together.)
del.icio.us  tags  tag-descriptions  narrative  maybe  interactive  fiction  hypertext  if 
march 2007 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | Beavers All
Nick Montfort <-- assistant professor of digital media, MIT.
text  hypertext  lit  if  edu 
february 2007 by bkerr
Electronic Literature Collection Volume One
lit  text  hypertext  if  games  anthology 
october 2006 by bkerr
Brass Lantern | Some Observations on Using Inform 7, by Emily Short
Unpacked, expanded version of her defense of Inform 7 from the recent SPAG.
inform  lit  if  games  language  design 
may 2006 by bkerr
Inform 7
Snazzy home page for Inform 7!
inform  lit  if 
may 2006 by bkerr
Brass Lantern | Introducing Inform 7
After 10 years: new version, big changes.
inform  lit  if 
may 2006 by bkerr
Adam Cadre on "White Noise"
Naturally he'd have something interesting to say about everybody's favorite over-studied novel.
lit  criticism  if  etc 
april 2006 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | 3 in 7: New IF
Games from Emily Short and Graham Nelson.
text  games  lit  if  inform 
march 2006 by bkerr
jay is games | php Zork!
lit  text  games  if  web  zork  via:deusx 
january 2006 by bkerr
WRT: Writer Response Theory | The word ‘GRUE’ as antagonist
Also discusses "3 in Three" and recent interactive fiction releases.
text  games  antagonist  lit  if  zork  grue 
january 2006 by bkerr
game-brains.com | Facade - review - Jan 2006
Excellent rambly review of Facade.
lit  if  text  games  future  media  entertainment  culture  past 
january 2006 by bkerr
Slashdot | Getting Off NetHack?
"...she's been using daily for a few years now. Could interactive fiction act as a methadone - or does it result in just as much harm? What other strategies have users employed to get clean?"
games  nethack  if  funny 
january 2006 by bkerr
Umbar | Neutrino
Watch this space: HTML-TADS interpreter for OS X, in development.
games  lit  if  tads  mac 
november 2005 by bkerr
WSJ.com | Keeping a Genre Alive
"In a Bid to Rekindle the Text-Only PC Games of the 1980s, Fans Write New Adventures." Journal coverage of IFComp.
text  games  lit  if  ifcomp 
november 2005 by bkerr
WRT: Writer Response Theory | Face to Face with Façade 3/5
games  lit  if  text  edu  future 
november 2005 by bkerr
GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY
Wow, that's a great title.
movies  documentary  games  lit  if  text  future  via:boingboing 
october 2005 by bkerr
WRT: Writer Response Theory | IF and the Subtitle
games  lit  if  classification 
october 2005 by bkerr
Los Angeles CityBeat | WAR OF THE WORDS
if  games  past 
october 2005 by bkerr
Cugel the Clever
"A Unified Interactive Fiction Player for Mac OS X (Cocoa)." 10 different interpreters behind one GUI!
mac  games  lit  if  inform  tads 
october 2005 by bkerr
IF Comp | Download the 2005 Annual IF Competition Games
games  lit  if  inform 
october 2005 by bkerr
Interactive Fiction Metadata Element Set
games  if  lit  dublincore  metadata  metacrap 
august 2005 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | Interactive Fiction Metadata
games  if  inform  dublincore  retrieval  ui 
august 2005 by bkerr
Gamasutra | The Designer's Notebook: You Must Play Façade, Now!
games  lit  if  future 
july 2005 by bkerr
Comic Whispers IV: Choose Your Own Comic Whisper | The Carpet of Anaxagoras
Tag-team choose-you-own-adventure comic (two panels by Zarf).
comics  lit  games  if 
june 2005 by bkerr
The Photopia Phaq
games  if  inform  lit 
may 2005 by bkerr
c2 wiki | Interactive Fiction Patterns
games  if 
may 2005 by bkerr
ONLamp.com | Choosing a Language for Interactive Fiction
Some good points about licensing and design of various platforms (Inform, TADS, etc.).
games  if  inform  tads 
may 2005 by bkerr
The History of Zork
"This is the history of the most famous of all interactive fiction games: Zork. It was written by Tim Anderson and Stu Galley and appeared in three issues of The New Zork Times."
games  if  past 
may 2005 by bkerr
TADS 3 TOUR GUIDE
games  if  tads 
may 2005 by bkerr
Game of the Week @ rec.games.int-fiction
if  events 
may 2005 by bkerr
[ze]dh - daniel hengeveld | Where the Weight Is
games  if  lit  interesting 
may 2005 by bkerr
Beautiful November -- CONFERENCES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Check out that call for papers!
lit  poetry  if 
april 2005 by bkerr
ZORK & other INFOCOM Games for APPLE Macintosh
games  if  infocom  mac 
april 2005 by bkerr
all things devours
games  inform  if 
march 2005 by bkerr
Mystery House Taken Over
"Nick Montfort, Dan Shiovitz, Emily Short, & the rest of the MHTO Occupation Force present..."
games  if  past  art  consumeandreflect 
march 2005 by bkerr
XYZZYnews Award Ceremony: 2004
"The ceremony took place on Sunday, March 20, 2005."
games  if 
march 2005 by bkerr
StupidTitleComp
My favorite was "Zrok."
games  if  funny 
march 2005 by bkerr
Greg Costikyan | I Have No Words & I Must Design
games  design  classification  go  if  ogre 
march 2005 by bkerr
How to Write a Great Game
games  if  howto 
march 2005 by bkerr
Baf's Guide | For a Change
Surreal, awesome-as-heck title by Dan Schmidt [of Looking Glass / Ultima Underworld fame].
games  inform  if  lit 
february 2005 by bkerr
Baf's Guide | Ad Verbum
Wordplay title by Nick Montfort.
games  inform  if  lit 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Craft of Adventure, by Graham Nelson
Source of the following definition: "an adventure game is a crossword at war with a narrative."
games  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
The MIT Press | Twisty Little Passages - Table of Contents
+ sample chapters (PDF).
games  if  $  lit 
february 2005 by bkerr
Amazon.com: Books | Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, by Nick Montfort
games  if  $  lit 
february 2005 by bkerr
Inform: No Score
Also a gentle introduction to replacing library routines.
if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Maze
Online, hypertext version of Christopher Manson's wonderful little book.
games  lit  if  mazes 
february 2005 by bkerr
Cloak of Darkness: Inform
An introductory-level, mega-annotated game in implemented in many enviroments (Inform here).
games  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
Informary -- what's happening in Inform
games  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
Nelson's "official" Inform site
games  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
Zarf | Interactive Fiction
All his games.
games  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
PUB
"Python Universe Builder is a set of Python modules for writing text-based adventure games or interactive fiction."
python  games  if 
february 2005 by bkerr
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin (Zarf, creator of System's Twilight)
The call-and-response (aka Rez) game mechanic in interactive fiction.
games  lit  if  ideas  love  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
Emily Short | Multilinear Interactive Fiction
games  lit  if 
february 2005 by bkerr
Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
games  lit  if  inform 
february 2005 by bkerr
Emily Short's Interactive Fiction Page
Essays and reviews from the author of "Galatea."
games  lit  if 
february 2005 by bkerr
Electronic Literature Organization - Directory
"A descriptive guide to 2271 works, 1152 authors, and 178 publishers."
if  lit  web 
january 2005 by bkerr
Infocom | Zork Downloads
games  if  inform 
december 2004 by bkerr
Download the 2004 Annual IF Competition Games
games  if 
december 2004 by bkerr
Welcome to TADS.ORG
if 
october 2004 by bkerr
TADS Workbench for Macintosh
"...contains everything you need to start developing Interactive Fiction using Mike Roberts' TADS Text Adventure Development System, wrapped in a nice Aqua GUI."
if  lit  mac 
october 2004 by bkerr

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