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emshort.blog › 2017 › 06 › 27
Interactive Fiction (ML Ronn) – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...writing for children, leaving protagonists blank, deploying frequent deaths, and the use of the second person POV in general.
Ronn claims it’s flatly...
emshort.blog › 2014 › 02 › 20
A (Mostly Recentish) IF List, For Breadth – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...In general, games in this series do a lot with player character customization, providing lots of ways to experience similar issues and problems. Choice...
emshort.blog › 2016 › 10 › 27
Casual Procgen Text Tools – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...transformational grammar tools on top of the generative ones. (Later in the weekend Joris Dormans’ dungeon-generation talk came back to the concept of...
emshort.blog › 2019 › 12 › 17
2019 Retrospective – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...One is available to the general public: The Soft Rumor of Spreading Weeds, a companion piece to With Those We Love Alive, published by...
emshort.blog › 2017 › 04 › 21
Mailbag: Teaching Spatial Storytelling – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...this is classic craft territory for parser IF, where maps are generally developed in tandem with plot and puzzles.
The primacy of the map...
emshort.blog › 2016 › 01 › 31
January Link Assortment – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...inkle released a podcast about choices, long-term effects of choice, and the player’s position between protagonist and dungeon-master in their work...
emshort.blog › 2015 › 09 › 06
Private Games – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...It was a dungeon where the monsters asked you arithmetic questions as a form of combat. Astonishingly he liked it, which shows you something...
emshort.blog › 2016 › 11 › 07
IF Comp 2016 Roundup – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...this is both about a science fair, and a meditation on fairness in general. How do we assess things, and which criteria are right...
emshort.blog › 2007 › 11 › 12
Art in Competition – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...Of course, the competition doesn’t exclude people interested in writing pseudo-hypertext or old-fashioned dungeon crawls in BASIC; they may or may...
emshort.blog › 2016 › 04 › 28
Mark Bernstein on Hypertext Narrative – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...as with all generalizations, there are some cases at the borders.
In the IF world, Curveship, of course, doing some procedural work on how...