Tag: if
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Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing
"Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing." is a literal line in the source code of one of my favourite video games, blackle mori observes.
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Opusfived
Miloลก Novoviฤ's experimental interactive fiction is a silly (but with a grain of truth!) simulation of what it feels like to attempt to use vibe-coding to make small, simple, isolated changes to an established codebase. Go play it!
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Ten Weird Games
This blog post's been sitting incomplete in my drafts since last decade. I think it's finally time to share with you... ten weird games (and game adjacent media) you should see.
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A Castle Built From Random Rooms
A Twine-like choose-your-own-adventure, but with the rooms randomly shuffled each time, in sort-of a semi-rougelite way. Some imaginative work in this. And the art style is wonderful!
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Where Should Visual Programming Go?
Niki has some great thoughts on the future of visual programming. I consider that maybe the IF community are already getting ahead of the curve.
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Werewolves and Wanderer [Video]
Video version of my blog post about the video game that had the biggest impact on my life: Werewolves and Wanderer.
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Werewolves and Wanderer
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.
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Twinebook - Printable Interactive Fiction
Twinebook lets you use Twine to make printable adventure gamebooks. Is there mileage in expanding on the prototype, Dan wonders?
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Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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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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Today, @bodleianlibs releases Shadows Out of Time, a Choose-Your-Own-Destiny story. It's amazing - go read it: https://s.danq.me/Np #halloween #InteractiveFiction
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Oat the Goat
Oat the Goat (oatthegoat.co.nz) Oh my Goat! We just finished reading this awesome pick-a-path story that helps children learn the power of kindness. Have a goโฆ #OatTheGoat
Oat the Goat
Discovered this fun interactive storybook; it tells the tale of a goat called Oat who endeavours to climb a mountain (making friends along the โฆ -
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.