BlogNomic: The Third Dynasty of Misty
An online game of Nomic: the game in which changing the rules is a move.
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Updated 22 hours ago
Punt Kick
In the rule “Distribution”, remove every sentence and bullet point that contains the term “punt”.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Narrative in games and new media.
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Updated 6 months ago
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
Grand Text Auto
A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
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
Ludicrously Niche
A blog which mostly discusses film, television and obscure adventure gamebooks published in the 1980s.
By Christopher Wickham.
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Updated 23 hours ago
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
Play the Past
Dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined).
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Updated 3 months ago
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
v21 | Blog
v buckenham | artist / curator / game designer / creative technologist / etc | based in London, UK.
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Updated 2 months ago
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, …
Zarf Updates
Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on.
By Andrew Plotkin.
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Updated 3 days ago
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