Letters from Home (Roger Firth, 2000): a game I didn’t get very far into during its competition release some years ago. I replayed it this evening. It belongs to a small collection of verbal-puzzle interactive fiction where the words used to describe things are more important than the things themselves, along with Infocom’s “Nord and Bert”, Ad Verbum, Puddles on the Path, and Goose, Egg, Badger.
Category: interactive fiction
Inform 7 syntax draft
Added to my Inform 7 page a draft of a syntax reference for I7. If it proves useful, it may eventually be amended and incorporated into the main project.
Feelies, etc.
Added a post on resources for feelies, cover art, and maps.
Added several bits…
…including a long piece on Second Person; documentation of the way Inform 7 deals with Inform 6 entry points and library properties; a list of high school and college courses I know of that deal with IF.
A somewhat random assortment, perhaps.
Theory of Fun For Game Design
Just added a review of Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun For Game Design to the site, plus some related thoughts about flOw, Super Columbine Massacre, etc., which will no doubt all seem much less topical in a couple of months. Still, there it is.
(Edited to add: Koster’s blog contains a recent thread of discussion about games and art, including links to some other reviews that are a little less IF-centric.)
Second Person
Second Person
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 