Category: Gaming
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Lost Pig
Get it! Made my first map! This is a really cute game so far. But don’t take my word for it… 1st Place overall; 1st Place, Miss Congeniality Awards – 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2007) Winner, Best Game; Winner, Best Writing; Nominee, Best Setting; Nominee, Best Puzzles; Nominee, Best NPCs; Winner, Best Individual NPC;…
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Zork is hard and confusing, revisiting “Themes for an Imaginary Film”,and “Pump Up the Volume”
So I played Zork for a little bit… and stopped. I managed to get underneath a house and kill a troll and pick up some stuff and get hella lost. Maps are very helpful for text adventures, by the way. I get how to move around and pick stuff up, but I’m just not sure…
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Frotz
Frotz is a free interactive fiction app for the iPhone. I just played through Photopia on it just to test it out, and it works quite well. If you happen to get the free app, go to Settings > Getting Started. Getting started has “New to Interactive Fiction?” and “No, Really, Where Do I Start?”…
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Finished Photopia
Well I just finished Photopia… I think I got it? I suppose since I haven’t read much lately so I don’t read that well? I mean I can read Engadget and Autoblog posts, but this is a different kind of reading. Throw in the chopped up nature of Photopia’s story and the fact that I’ve…
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Interactive Fiction Intro
Inspired by the film Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (watch), I decided I wanted to play one of these games. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have started playing Photopia. However, I thought I would post some links that may be useful to someone wishing to know more about the genre of…
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Two documentaries for really nerdy people
I’ve watched a couple of documentaries recently by a guy named Jason Scott. The first one, Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary, I had seen before. Its about text-based adventures, which is a form of interactive fiction. The genre was largely killed off with the proliferation of graphical video games, but, as you can tell from…