So about a month ago I entered a new Twine piece of mine, called Doggerland, into the Spring Thing competition,…
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Feu de Joie: Session 3 now online
Good news, the third Session of Feu de Joie is now online. The rabbit hole is deeper. You as a…
Continue reading →kettled
‘I don’t have the books that I need at home with me, so the theoretical interlude might be a bit…
Continue reading →Feu de Joie: Session 2 now online
This is a bit belated, but I’ve uploaded Session 2 to Feu de Joie (http://www.feudejoie.net). The walls start closing in…
Continue reading →Alan’s Very Very First AWP Conference
I have no idea how I’ve managed to not go, for all of these years? But consider it’s in Minneapolis…
Continue reading →Feu de Joie (new serialized interactive fiction project begins!)
So for the last few months I’ve been hunkered away getting a new project started, and the first installment is…
Continue reading →Reading in Chicago
So next Tuesday I’ll be in Chicago reading at the Tuesday Funk Reading series with other fine folk. I’ll be…
Continue reading →[IFComp 2014: AlethiCorp]
AlethiCorp by Simon Christiansen Interactive fiction can create a sense of spatiality with a minimum of ingredients. It doesn’t have…
Continue reading →[IFComp 2014] Icepunk
Icepunk by pageboy What has impressed me most about this year’s comp is the variety of forms the games have…
Continue reading →[IFComp 2014] Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes
Hey, so I’m going to try to review works of interactive fiction for the 20th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. I…
Continue reading →infidel poetics
The anonymous lyric, including the riddle and the metrical charm, appears to have been gradually eclipsed by the emergence of…
Continue reading →STOP KILLING ME PLZ: a piece of random flotsam from gaming culture
“I remember this, you weren’t suppose to run away ^.^ ..he’s a friend of mine, would trap people like that…
Continue reading →“We are often reminded of the countless procedures which Christianity once employed to make us detest the body; but let…
Continue reading →The Apocalypse Project
(This has not been tested. This is ‘just writing.’)
Continue reading →news: Cryptophasia and “Wildfires of Antarctica”
I’ve been very busy. I’ve also been doing a social media fast/sabbatical/what-have-you, which has been really great, and has given…
Continue reading →Solarium wins Best Story Award
The XYZZY awards (http://xyzzyawards.org) showcase the best of interactive fiction in a given year-with voting open to all-and is one…
Continue reading →On the Minnesota Book Awards
I wasn’t able to find a place to publish this essay about the Minnesota Book Awards and their lack of…
Continue reading →on one’s own work
just two scattered thoughts on the discussion about end of year self-promotion/”hey this work exists!” posts about stories for awards.…
Continue reading →Ambiguity in the Dungeon of Good and Evil
I’ve been getting back into playing a bit of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a rogue-like, and came across this in…
Continue reading →Welcome to the Club
It’s hard to know how to either quantify or qualify universalism, because so many communities make a claim to at…
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