Some initial reactions to just the beginning of Aaron Reed’s “Blue Lacuna” — cut for very mild spoilers.
Category: interactive fiction
Congrats to Violet
which took JayIsGames’ “Best of 2008” award in the interactive fiction category.
Blue Lacuna released
Aaron Reed’s enormous new IF work, Blue Lacuna, is now available to download and play. It looks formidable — check it out.
Assorted things
- Aaron Reed has a short story of sorts distributed over the face of the internet. Here is the beginning.
- Chocolatier 3: Decadence by Design is out — much like the first two Chocolatiers, but this time with the ability to mix and name your own chocolate blends. Full review later when I have time for such things.
- David Kinder has been doing some great work on Glulx speed issues, working with Iain Merrick to make Git handle some of the latest I7 features and recompiling it to be faster. Alabaster may be on hold for the month, but I’m excited to see that it may now play faster (at least on Windows) once it’s done.
Homer in Silicon
Still mad busy here, but another Homer in Silicon column is now up, this time looking at “Summer Session”.
(Away message)
In answer to inquiries from a couple places:
I’ve been more than usually bad about email, bug fixes, and other kinds of updates recently, and not doing much with Alabaster either. I hope to resume somewhat more regular service next month, but for the duration of January I’m teaching an intensive class that requires my full attention.
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