Travis Newman

Tag: interactive fiction

  • Finished Photopia

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    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…

  • Interactive Fiction Intro

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    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…

  • Two documentaries for really nerdy people

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    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…