Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

PTT on Shadow

(And a differently-angled take on Shadow in the Cathedral, at Play This Thing!)

Latest Playing: The Shadow in the Cathedral

“The Shadow in the Cathedral” is one of the best IF games released this year. Maybe not the best, but that would be a large claim to make considering that it’s competing with Blue Lacuna, Make It Good, The King of Shreds and Patches, the top couple comp games… it’s been a good year for IF.

But Shadow definitely belongs in the top tier.

IFDB review over here.

Interesting interview

with Alan DeNiro, author of Deadline Enchanter, who has also just published his first novel.

Screenshots

…from an in-progress Flash game designed to teach Greek vowel contractions. It’s a bit of a break from my usual thing, but I’m having a good time learning some Actionscript. It’s also a lot of fun designing game mechanics around an existing thing I want to teach, rather than a system invented for the game.

It has a long way to go yet in terms of polish — I wanted to get the gameplay in place before I started going crazy with the art, for instance — and I’ll need to test the levels with students to make sure that the progression makes sense.