Tag: games
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Shadows Out of Time
Dan adapts the Bodleian's Halloween CYOA adventure gamebook into a Twine/Chapbook powered piece of interactive fiction for your browser. Play it now!
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Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.
Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):
Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. … -
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk
Games to Play With Your Child in Which You Barely Have to Move or Talk by by Raquel D'Apice (The Ugly Volvo) I see a lot of ideas online for things to do with your child, but most of them are a lot of work. Many of them involve an unnerving amount of craftiness and/or …
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This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences
This Old Tech: Remembering WorldsAway's avatars and virtual experiences (PCWorld) The year was 1995, and CompuServe's online service cost $4.95 per hour. Yet thousands of people logged into this virtual world daily.
WorldsAway was born 20 years ago, when Fujitsu Cultural Technologies, a subsidiary of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu, released this online experiment in multiplayer … -
Stones Under Yetzin
Dan's been running a roleplaying campaign for a few friends, and now that campaign's got it's own blog (not to mention a suite of companion apps, because... well, it's Dan).
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Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game
Left alone to look after a conference stand, Dan implements a browser-based video game prototype called Steer! in which the player uses their mobile phone to control a speeding car.
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Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS? [Twine game]
Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS? [Twine game]
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Twee2 - Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a piece of software, and reacted by reimplementing that software from scratch. Twee2 is his attempt to make it possible for people to write Twine 2-style interactive fiction from a command-line interface.
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Post-It Minesweeper
Dan implements a computer program to help him make a Post-It-based version of a computer program. Then sticks it to a computer.
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The Web Is Not a Post-Racial Utopia
Rust, a 2013 indie survival game from Facepunch Studios, plays like a cross between Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto. Players find themselves “born” into a mysterious wilderness, naked and alone, forced to forage for resources and to craft clothing, supplies and shelter for themselves. They must contend with starvation, hypothermia and animal attacks, but by …
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"MarI/O" - how an evolutionary neural network learned to play Mario
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The Hardest Hangman
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find out for sure.
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Movie Title Mash-Ups
Dan and Ruth spend the greatest part of an evening playing "Movie Title Mash-Up", the second-silliest social game to come out of TV show Cougar Town.
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What's Wrong With Monopoly?
Monopoly enjoys cult status and a massive following the world over, yet it's one of the worst imaginable board games. In a long-promised blog post, Dan explains why he hates the world's most-popular game.
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Non-transitive Games
Dan learns about non-transitive games, writes a program to calculate the probabilities of winning a non-transitive dice game, and gives you a non-transitive coin game to play for yourself!