Category: games
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My Interview at The Writing Show
Paula B. at The Writing Show a couple weeks ago interviewed me about storytelling in video games. Here’s the podcast audio, and please check out […]
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Story Games and Empty Reviews
It occurred to me recently that game reviewers ignore story. I don’t think they do it on purpose. I’d like to think they just don’t […]
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Favorite Classic Story Games
What do I mean by “story game”? After all, most games now have stories. What differentiates a story game from all the others? By “story […]
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Spotlight: The Goat in the Grey Fedora (Review)
The Goat in the Grey Fedora An on-line story game by Mark Darin, starring Jason Ellis, published by Pinhead Games. Many of us expect little […]
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The Longest Journey (Review)
Or maybe the longest, most arduous, most painful, most distressing journey. On two different adventure gaming boards recently, the subject has come up, the subject […]
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Spotlight: Psychonauts (Review)
I think I finally know what I want to do with my life. Not my career, but what I do for a mid-life crisis. I […]
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IFComp 2005
This week, we enter the world of interactive fiction, and the possibilities it presents, by way of IFComp 2005. In this episode, we look at […]
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