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Geography – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...to how the player will get across the game world efficiently during the later stages.
There are a variety of design strategies to get...
emshort.blog › 2017 › 04 › 16
All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve) – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...And still she goes on, feeding your desire until desire becomes obsession, obsession turns to addiction, and addiction becomes total enslavement.
Within a few...
emshort.blog › 2013 › 04 › 25
The Walking Dead (Telltale) – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...By the end of the game I felt a weird sort of affection for the most trivial details, down to the zipper on the...
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announcements – Page 2 – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...how you get to them.
It’s a purely conversation game. As in a lot of choice-based games, you have up to three...
emshort.blog › 2007 › 05 › 29
Educational and Editorial Games – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...Another strategy is to build a gas plant for relatively cheap power early in the game, but close it later when better sources become...
emshort.blog › 2021 › 08 › 31
End of August Link Assortment – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...games are getting enough voters.
Those entering IF Comp may also be interested in this best-practices discussion of how to write a walkthrough...
emshort.blog › 2016 › 04 › 28
Mark Bernstein on Hypertext Narrative – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...a lot in how much information they give on a) which choices are traversable when and b) when they’re likely to become unlocked...
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Feelies, Maps, Cover Art – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...I’ve tried a variety of packaging approaches to make my games more appealing or simply because I wanted to see how hard it...
emshort.blog › 2019 › 07 › 14
A Top 20 List of IF – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Every four years, Victor Gijsbers puts together a list of the top 50 IF games of all time. To vote for this, one sends...
emshort.blog › 2015 › 01 › 14
Games of Co-Authorship – Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
...to develop when the game ends, and I would have enjoyed exploring at more length. But as this was created for a game jam...