Second Person
is now available for sale. It is a collection of essays on role-playing and board games, and some related computer game forms, including IF. It has a very short piece by me. It also has lots of great material by other people. I haven’t gotten my contributor copy yet, but I’m looking forward to it; others may want to check it out too.
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Hey, contribute a short essay to a book that’s less than 800 pages long, will ya?
Congratulations, by the way. I put that up on my wishlist for a time when I’m not paying tuition.
What was the subject of your essay?
It’s a piece on how the puzzles in Savoir-Faire are designed to educate the player so that he becomes better at solving the kinds of problem involved.
(My fuller writeup of this is now here. )
That link now seems to redirect to this page; the writeup now lives here: https://emshort.wordpress.com/how-to-play/writing-if/books-and-other-resources/second-person/
Just picked this up — I particularly enjoyed the essays by Jordan Mechner, Jeremy Douglass, Meretzky, Montfort, and you, having read the book with an eye towards characterization and setting.
Thanks for showing me that it existed.
(to say nothing of your review of the anthology, which is both great commentary and quite insightful)