News About Interactive Fiction
1. I've been invited to teach a workshop this Saturday evening at the hackerspace i3Detroit, on how to write Interactive Fiction with InForm. This will follow the screening of the documentary GET LAMP at 3 PM.
2. At Readercon, Andrew Plotkin gave a wonderful talk titled "A Writer's Guide To Interactive Fiction".
3. In a tremendous breakthrough for Interactive Fiction, you can now play it in your web browser. Actually, that's been done for a long time. But now, you can save your game, without login, just by telling it "SAVE" and then bookmarking the resulting URL.
Download nothing. Install nothing. Log in to nothing. Just go to The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction and play. There is really no excuse anymore. The only reason for you to not play Interactive Fiction is if you don't want to.
If you don't want to experiment with an innovative, emotionally strange way to deliver prose fiction, that's OK! You will probably want to avoid Photopia then. Read a nice orderly book. If you would prefer your psychological horror to not play on your own participation, do not play Shade. Instead, why don't you read a horror story or novel? So much less likely to mess with your head.
If you can't even think of the first thing to do in Lost Pig: What would you do when trying to locate something in the dark? Not "What is a video game character able to do?" What would you do in real life?
Comments
jodybrai on Sep. 7, 2010 12:15 PM
Ooh!! Is the screening and workshop invite only, fee-based, or open to the general public? If I'm not in Flint, this looks like it could be awesome!
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