A fascinating case of a game being used to extend an author’s fictional world, but one I’d never heard of before.
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A fascinating case of a game being used to extend an author’s fictional world, but one I’d never heard of before.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 
Link points to trackback, here’s the right one :)
http://c64walkabout.com/2009/08/04/its-strange-deep-and-satisfying-below-the-root.aspx
Sorry about that — should be fixed now, and thanks for pointing it out.
Oh, have you not been around the MUD any of the times I’ve been wigging out about Below the Root? It was one of my favorite games as a kid, and still occupies a special place in my heart. I’m working kind of halfheartedly on a map/compendium/comparison to the novels for the game (the map part is fun, except for the screens which are near-impossible or impossible to get to).
I guess not. (Or I didn’t realize what you were talking about, maybe.)
I also had the “Below the Root” game (and had read the books) when I was a kid. I never got very far. It requires a lot of dedicated mapping *and* platforming to get around the game, and while my skills were probably up to it, I never explored systematically enough to get far.
I didn’t know the author was deliberately moving forward from the storyline of the trilogy, though.
(The “Alice in Wonderland” game, from the same company and with the same engine, gave me the same trouble. I admire the way they were able to pack such a sense of a three-dimensional world into a simple platform interface. But the games were hard. :)