tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382397252012-01-31T20:15:30.254-05:00News, Observations, Reviews and Ideas, mostly about Interactive FictionArichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-9527024987574497942011-12-05T15:22:00.004-05:002011-12-05T15:42:13.068-05:00

I can't really justify it, but I've been reading a book called American Exorcism and I came across this:I first heard about the concept early on in my research, when I met with a former Episcopal pastor who was working as a car salesman in Maryland. He told me that for much of his life he'd had enormous difficulty sustaining personal commitments. [...]"I'd gone through some really tough times,

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-13345075241006059832011-02-15T13:44:00.007-05:002011-02-15T16:47:19.208-05:00

Allow me to break my silence to share a recent post on PC Gamer.In an interview titled for his views on "Social Games" Jonathan Blow says quite a bit about adventure games and even levels a slight criticism against the modern IF community:Adventure games are all confusion. If it’s text, it’s “Why doesn’t the parser understand me still?” So the core gameplay of adventure games is actually fumbling

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-29125684557419221222009-12-04T12:42:00.006-05:002009-12-04T15:24:20.415-05:00

As a contribution of questionable utility, I have created an Interactive Fiction wave. As of this posting all it consists of is a woefully incomplete link list, though any one who has a Google Wave account can feel free to add to it.Interactive Fiction WaveIf you want an invite to Google Wave, I have about five left. Just let me know in the comments if you want one.

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-33280506929726755242008-10-06T20:09:00.003-04:002008-10-06T20:41:02.933-04:00

Nothing to see here, just spoiler / RSS padding. The juicy stuff is below the Read more! link. Which is below. I mean, below this paragraph. You'll have to look down a little. I can't give a precise measurement, I think it would depend on your display's resolution. I should probably get a generic space thing that I could copy and paste. But I... wait, are you still reading this? Are my

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-45438057695335014332008-10-04T12:36:00.005-04:002009-10-02T09:23:54.068-04:00

In this filler space I intend to show how space can be filled by typing a sufficient length of characters that will not spoil any part of the game I will be reviewing later. This will be done by filling writing in the style of an school essay, typing even more after that, and finally by obfuscating the rest of the post after the Read more! link below. In conclusion, I have wasted space by

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-58314697176189441362008-10-03T22:51:00.005-04:002009-10-02T09:24:40.053-04:00

No spoiler-space for this one: I simply cannot rate it. I attempted to play with Spatterlight and Zoom on Mac OSX, but there were simply too many bugs that were probably interpreter related. I cannot attempt with my linux box as it is broken, and I do not have a Windows box. If anyone can offer advice for running this before the competition is over, please let me know so that I may review it.

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-24831777726430073882008-10-03T21:11:00.008-04:002008-10-03T21:50:56.429-04:00

There is a review below which will contain spoilers. The review will only be visible after you click the "Read more!" link. This sentence, however, is visible now. And it will keep going on until it has reached approximately 393 characters. So I'm going to type a little more. And a little more. And this should just about cover it. Why have you read all this anyway? It would have been

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-39525694635217490612008-10-02T20:39:00.008-04:002008-10-02T22:06:32.233-04:00

What you are reading is filler space for the RSS feed. What you are reading is not a review. What you are reading contains no spoilers. What you are reading contains no surprises. What you are reading is unbelievably boring. You should click the Read More! link below... unless you want to click this Read Less! link. And through a lack of planning and observation I slightly under-estimated

Arichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12386576849436414477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38239725.post-26821751993137302008-10-01T21:18:00.016-04:002008-10-02T21:22:36.490-04:00

Each of the following posts will have space-filling introduction that has nothing to do with the actual game review to keep the RSS feeds from spoiling anything. These space-filling texts will be extremely boring and should be avoided at all costs. Even reading this very sentence is wasting precious time and energy. Go outside. Enjoy the autumnal weather. Or click the Read More! link

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