ill be covering some people i worked on this documentary with in various entries. todays is about dr. nick montfort.
when i was first working on research for the documentary i stumbled into an announcement of a book about interactive fictiontext adventures called twisty little passages an approach to interactive fiction . the book was not quite out yet but was coming soon ...... [Show More]
to follow up on the 1k story generator i posted ten days ago here is a slightly revised version of that generator and two new ones.
story1.py story generation by elision. this is a slightly modified version of the november 20 ori ginal.82 21 it uses a sequence of specially written sentences all but 59 sentences are removed and the remaining text is presented as the st...... [Show More]
michaels here at mit and just gave a great talk. while he was preparing for it apropos of conversations ive had recently with him and beth cardier i wrote something that i think is a story generator and which is a selfcontained 1k python program. here it is story.py
let me know if you think its a story generator and whether or not you think it is if you think of an...... [Show More]
for the last 14 years the denizens of the usenet group rec.arts.i ntfiction have been keeping the text adventure flag flying with hundreds of new games and an annual competition to find the best of the years crop. 2008 has seen 35 new entries with some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures interacti ve fiction.
first prize ...... [Show More]
for the last 14 years the denizens of the usenet group rec.arts.i ntfiction have been keeping the text adventure flag flying with hundreds of new games and an annual competition to find the best of the years crop. 2008 has seen 35 new entries with some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures interacti ve fiction.
first prize ...... [Show More]
im an ngmofo Post Source: grandtextauto.org Posted: Nov 01 2008 00:07:22
ive been an absentee blogger and i apologize. the last time i posted in july i mentioned i had started a new game studio stumptown game machine here in portland that has been consuming my time. i had said we were working on a game for a realitytv show and in fact it was coming along swimmingly until the publisher ran out of cash a few weeks before the game was complete. ...... [Show More]
it has been interesting to observe how the gameplay of biowares mass effect continues to pop up in discussions about narrative in contemporary gaming. the 2007 xbox 360 and windows title seems to have entrenched itself as a benchmark for immersive storytelling. for those unfamiliar with the premise of the game mass effect is a scifi action rpg that places the protagonist a recently ...... [Show More]
some marvelous new links here headed by what they plays look at like they say sex violence ratings and game design all of which tend to be of interest to gamesetwatch readers on any given day.
yet also in here weird playstation 1 games the indie video goodness of bytejacker morality and gameplay in the bring down the sky expansion for the excellent mass effect ...... [Show More]
even before mary flanagan appointed chair of new digital humanities and professor of film and media studies arrived at dartmouth her work created great excitement and anticipation within the local academic and student community. since she has been here the buzz is growing especially around tiltfactor the gaming lab. it has been an eventful week. much of the equipment is still in boxes and ...... [Show More]
below is a list of reviews and mentions of quests design theory and history in games and narratives. they were graciously collected and excerpted in this format by my publisher ak peters.
reviews
slashdot external link
september 2008
jeff howards quests design theory and history in games and narrative is an exploration of quests in both literary and gaming contexts ...... [Show More]
the 2008 interactive fiction competition is on and you can judge it.
since 1995 writers have created textbased computer adventures for the annual competition space operas medieval quests and countless other stories that allow the reader to guide the plot. heres a short introduction to the genre
in interactive fiction you play the main character. you type commands ...... [Show More]
the 2008 interactive fiction competition is up and running and you can download the games and vote
for the last fourteen years the readers of the usenet newsgroup rec.arts.i ntfiction have held a yearly interactive fiction competition. for fans of the old infocom games as well as for newcomers to the genre the competition is a chance to enjoy some of the best short adventure games availa..... [Show More]
teens and games Post Source: valuesatplay.org Posted: Sep 26 2008 13:24:18
originally posted on grand text auto
by dr. mary flanagan
perhaps you have heard reports of the new study funded by pew and macarthur on video games. the survey teens video games and civics was conducted with 1102 young people aged 1217. some are saying the results are surprising and even that they shatter stereotypes by finding that almost all us teens play games con...... [Show More]
elit dead film at 11 Post Source: grandtextauto.org Posted: Sep 24 2008 17:23:15
the end of electronic literature or electronic literature without end in todays guardian a newspaper those of course arent anywhere near dead andrew gallix offers a tentative eulogy for electronic literature suggesting that it is at best getting inextricably mashed up with art. his piece ends by asking perhaps elit is already dead
in part i...... [Show More]
he loved writing and was humiliated by it. he was sympathetic to any creature in pain and sympathetic to anyone who caused pain. you need to wonder if he might have been better off if he had stayed on drugs. grand text autoaa dfw...... [Show More]
grand text auto dfw Post Source: tristanjay7.tumblr.com Posted: Sep 16 2008 00:13:00
grand text auto dfw one of his former students writes about david foster wallace as a teacher....... [Show More]
a little more gamesetlinks perhaps this time seeing jellyvision dropping more hints on the delicious return of you dont know jack xbox live maybe or multiplatf orm alongside a glowing recommendation of the track field ds remake at least for retro idiots such as myself.
also in here margaret robertson on spore for seed magazine the gambitmit game lab getting prett...... [Show More]
see also liz loshs analysis of these talks at virtualpolitik
this past week n. katherine hayles now of duke and lynne withey of university of california press met on neutral territory to discuss the future of academic publishing.a well maybe not entirely neutral as they spoke in the new books room of a very oldfashioned telegenic library. their complementa...... [Show More]
as we hit the slower weeks of summer take five minutes to play jason rohrers passage a contemplative art game created for last years gamma 256 competition in montreal which challenged indie designers to create games with tiny irregular aspect ratios of no more than 256256 pixels. in its halfyear of existence rohrers entry has become a micro sensation on its o...... [Show More]
media in transition Post Source: www.steveersinghaus.com Posted: Aug 01 2008 14:47:55
dennis jerz sends this link to nick montforts post on a media in transition conference. a good one for our librarians....... [Show More]
the next media in transition conference see reports from the last one 1 2 will focus on storage and transmission a hot topic in digital media that continues to heat up. note that although the deadline is not until january 9 submissions are accepted on a rolling basis so those with ideas for the conference should submit now.
media in transition 6 stone and papyrus sto...... [Show More]
malcolm ryan has started a new project on his new blog words on play to review one book a week covering topics such as game design and interactive narrative. the list is not restricted to those books that have just recently been released. the review project was prompted in part by his recently starting a list of secret books of game design books that are not explicitly abo...... [Show More]
im pleased to announce and link to the first work in inform 7 by a major poet. now it does compile without any trouble in its current form but the file might need further editing to actually produce a playable enjoyable game. is anyone up to it...... [Show More]
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