This is good news.
It’s officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday.
The successful content-delivery service will bring Valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2, as well as games from other publishers, [...]
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We will be starting the interactive fiction project on Wednesday (10/21) and there are several things you will need in order to get ready: Read “Getting Started With Interactive Fiction“; Works of IF from the 2009 New Media Perspectives and Digital Narratives classes are available to play online. The Pac-Man Dossier I’ve updated the links to the interactive fiction projects. They are now at: An interesting post on game design by Danc at Lost Garden. Well worth reading, especially given our ongoing projectsL Sounds like a game group in operation. The 1st drafts of the IF projects are available to play online. I’ve updated the snippets site with some new ones in these two areas: Conversations New stuff about asking, telling, and showing a character something. Vehicles Several new vehicle examples such as riding a horse, flying on a broom, and limiting where you can drive a vehicle. Check ‘em out. There might be something useful for you. This coming Monday (October 27) is the due date for your first drafts of your IF pieces. Email me (and Steve) the text of your source code plus your released work by the end of the day. (I’ll explain how to do this during Monday’s class.) Via Tiltfactor: Jessica has asked an interesting question so here is a way to create some form of vehicle that the player can ride: like a horse, a tractor, or even a broom (key terms are in bold): This is interesting, on the Little Bib Planet delay: Had a couple requests to implement cars in IF. This uses an object called a “vehicle.” |
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