Author: emshortif

Obligatory blather and babble filling up some number of characters goes here, after which I will talk a bit about the last several chapters of Blue Lacuna. Please skip ahead to the cut if you are interested in reading that. Otherwise, nothing interesting to see here.

(Your advertisement could go in this space. For a small fee, I would be willing to fill up the blank spaces of my RSS feed with appealing descriptions of tooth-whitening dentifrices, hypoallergenic mattresses, and small Japanese-produced automobiles. I have no strong protectionist impulses and would be willing to advertise consumer goods not produced in the United States, unless of course they have not been adequately tested for lead content, in which case all the relevant laws apply.)

Continue reading “Blue Lacuna — Finished”

What follows will be another snapshot of how Blue Lacuna is going, taken from what I assume is about the midpoint of the story. (I’ve only just gotten to the beginning of Chapter Six, though from conversation with other people I get the strong feeling that one person’s experience of a chapter may be quite different from someone else’s. So consider yourself warned that I may be spoiling things that will come later for other people; I have no way of knowing.)

It seems that I’m not leaving quite enough spoiler space at the beginning of these to completely thwart the RSS feed, so this time around I will muddle on rambling about nothing for several sentences of vacant content, even though there will be absolutely nothing of interest to read until after the break. For instance, here is another sentence containing nothing. Nothing to see here, move along, move along. Tra la la.

Continue reading “Blue Lacuna — Ch. 6”

Was forced by circumstance to take a break for a few days, but am now back with more musings on Aaron Reed’s Blue Lacuna. Spoilers follow the break; I’m partway through chapter four, but not to the end of it. Feeling a little bit stuck at the moment.

Continue reading “Blue Lacuna — Ch. 4”

over here.

It’s still in a pre-beta state, but to my surprise and great delight, someone has announced an in-progress HTML TADS interpreter for the Mac, so that those of us on this platform can enjoy the pretty pictures and elegant formating that are supposed to accompany certain recent TADS games.

By way of demonstration, here it is rendering the opening screen of Jim Aikin’s “Lydia’s Heart”, complete with cover image and attractive banner.

The author of this application has invited testing and is also looking for a graphic designer to supply icons for the application itself and its associated game and save files. If you’re inclined to help out, the announcement is here and the download itself here. (If you decide to test, you should read the announcement carefully, since there are some issues the author is interested to hear about and others that are known and not worth emailing in.)