Slog - Comments on Re: Low Production Value Theater http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1 Paul, I'm tempted to chastise you for linking to a years-old download site, but I suppose there's nothing wrong with plugging the best of the old gaming era--the storied, dusty text adventure. Still, why stop there? This is the modern era, and just as any shlub can start a band, a blog, or a paid sex site on the Internet, so too can they become a bona fide author of interactive fiction. The barrier to entry has kept modern IF pretty meaty--it's not a profitable enterprise in the world of the Wii and 360, but annual contests at sites like... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:47:20 -0800 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:05:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by JC Make your own Interactive Fiction. It's good, nerdy fun.

http://www.inform-fiction.org/

]]> JC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994399 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994399 Tech Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:02:47 -0800 Comment by Peter F Most game "journalism" mags are awful and always have been, surpassed only by game "journalism" websites for sheer ugliness and general awful uselessness.

Play is a rare exception in the sea of pointless newsstand-cloggers.

Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (formerly Computer Gaming World) had one of the worst titles ever given to a print magazine, though.

]]> Peter F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994401 Tech Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:04:07 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum Woo! Finally, my moment to shine on SLOG! For you see, I sir, have not only -written- interactive fiction, but am, in fact, an -award winning- writer of interactive fiction. I took 1997's XYZZY award for Best Writing, for my game, Sunset Over Savannah: An Existential Vacation (easily found at BAF's guide). And a more gratifying moment there never was, I tell you.

So now you know.

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/re_low_production_value_theater_1#c994785 Tech Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:05:15 -0800