“The Legend of Grammy’s Apples” by John Timmons
The Foyer is a room. “This is an austere place barren of any furniture. You see a passage to the north.”
The Kitchen is north of the Foyer. “Red walls, marble counter tops and a silver stove, this kitchen reminds you of The Jetsons.”
The Living Room is south of [...]
This project will be assessed on the following criteria (listed in order of priority) as we will discuss in class:
A map of interconnected “rooms” with clear descriptions and exits.
Objects that can be interacted with.
Two (or more) possible outcomes.
Story.
See “The Legend of Grammy’s Apple” at http://newmedia.hpiweb.com for an example of a short work that meets all [...]
We will begin work with interactive fiction on Thursday, February 28th. In preparation for this assignment, this is what you will need to do:
Download and install the Inform 7 application. Do this by clicking on the graphic for your operating system (Windows, Mac.)
Bring in your laptop with the software installed on Thursday the 28th (if [...]
John’s guide Inform 7 Snippets has been added to the links under New Media Reading and to the Interactive Fiction page in the sidebars. This is a wonderful and well designed list of items to problems you might need to tackle in IF. They come from questions and issues students had in our [...]
I love Blue Tatoo’s poise here on the subject of linearity and non-linearity:
The Fallout series was way ahead of its time in many respects, and I’m glad to hear about how Bethesda intends to carry on in the same spirit. It always bothers me in games when I encounter the linear quests, such as gathering [...]
The 2007 Interactive Fiction competition games are up and ready for reading if the NM students are up for more examples. Monday we will be looking over and studying the productions. These might provide some fun over the week end.
Here’s the link.
There are two new tabs at the top of every page (and also on the right sidebar) entitled Hypertext and Interactive Fiction respectively. These pages contain links to further information about theory, tools to create your own works, and other cool places to explore and interact with.