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7 blogs about Games.

  1. BlogNomic: The Third Dynasty of Misty
    An online game of Nomic: the game in which changing the rules is a move. More info

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    Punt Kick
    In the rule “Distribution”, remove every sentence and bullet point that contains the term “punt”.
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  2. Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
    Narrative in games and new media. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Dialogue Expressiveness in Mask of the Rose
    Mask of the Rose is a dating-and-murder-mystery virtual novel set in Failbetter’s Fallen London universe. In line with that genre, it typically gives the player between two and four dialogue choices for conversation – occasionally …
    By Emily Short, 1,405 words
  3. Grand Text Auto
    A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Gram’s Fairy Tales: Manual & Grimoire
    Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, and Andy Wallace, for this issue) …
    By Nick Montfort, 1,560 words
  4. Ludicrously Niche
    A blog which mostly discusses film, television and obscure adventure gamebooks published in the 1980s. By Christopher Wickham. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Man With a Tadpole Stuck Up His Nose
    Between 1989 and 1994, Tony Robinson wrote and starred in four series of the hugely popular Children's BBC series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, reinventing the legend of Robin Hood as a sitcom for …
    By Christopher Wickham, 531 words
  5. Play the Past
    Dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined). 🇺🇸 More info

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    How Ubisoft Got Machiavelli Wrong in Assassin’s Creed
    About the author: Iván Goldman is a political scientist from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a Researcher at the Meridiano Foundation and the Argentinean Foreign Policy Research Group (GIPEA) of the Faculty …
    By Iván Goldman, 3,130 words
  6. v21 | Blog
    v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Downpour is out!
    Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don’t know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, …
    1,303 words
  7. Zarf Updates
    Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on. By Andrew Plotkin. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Microsoft cancels next surprise hit game
    Dateline May 7th (or May 2, or Apr 12, or Mar 28, or...) Microsoft shocked industry observers today by announcing the cancellation of its upcoming unexpected hit game. The title was still in production, and …
    By Andrew Plotkin, 217 words