Do you do AI research in story generation or interactive fiction playing generation? Do you have a cool narrative system that you want to show off but don't know how to?
Submit to the Wordplay Workshop @ ACL 2024! https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/
How long was it ago that I last picked up Tristam Island? Two things that annoy me a bit: the inventory limit and illogical things. You have to look UNDER the boat and eat the seaweed. Why?? There were no hints that there might be something under the boat! #interactivefiction#tristamisland#psion3
NarraScope, the small friendly conference dedicated to narrative games and interactive fiction, is now open for registration.
We’ve been running (online and offline) since 2019. This year we’re in Rochester at The Strong National Museum of Play — an exceptionally cool place to visit.
You can take a peek at the schedule — not the full schedule, but a sample: https://narrascope.org/pages/schedule.html . We’ll be adding to that list in the next couple of weeks.
This is the only zine covering text-heavy, choice-heavy, narrative games from around the world! No one else is talking about the stuff like we are, so don't sleep on it.
Please, for the love of everything, help us spread the word!
Night Cascades, a mystery romance set in a New Age infused version of the 1980s, by @hanakogames
Seers Isle, an interactive graphic novel by @novabox in a fantasy medieval northern Europe setting. Themes include individual survival, and the clash between monotheism & polytheism
So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!
When saving websites as HTML in Firefox, I've noticed that Firefox inserts new line breaks at about 80 characters inside text content nodes.
While this normally isn't an issue, it completely breaks downloaded twine games (newlines are inserted within <tw-passagedata> nodes). First, twine's display is sensitive to newlines, so inserting newlines forces line breaks in the output. And, if there's embedded javascript inside a passage, the line breaks can happen inside a quoted string, creating a syntax error.
Unfortunately, I had saved a lot of twine games using Firefox, so they're mostly broken in various ways now...
Is there a way to make Firefox not add newlines while saving-as-html?
(I don't think Chromium has this issue? I feel like it messed up twine games in other ways but don't remember how...)
I’ve had the privilege of working with all these folks on various interactive-fictiony projects and programs in the past*. Looking forward to seeing the work they do with improving IF technology, outreach, accessibility, and historical research! Respectively!! #InteractiveFiction
*In one case, five days ago, where I got the beans spilled about this impending announcement from its recipient…
PLOT SUMMARY:thrust into an unfamiliar world, you form an uneasy alliance with a small cactus in order to find the realm's caretaker and return peace to the multiverse... but not before getting baked, of course
"It's here! Our first project! Check out Django Text Game Builder on GitHub and start building your own Choose Your Own Adventure style games today. 🐶"
We're happy to announce the results of our first #grants cycle!
Four projects were selected by our panel of advisors, and $2400 was disbursed by IFTF to support these projects. We had a range of proposals and the final slate shows great diversity - interpreters, accessibility, history, and sprouting new communities!
We are delighted with the results of this program - thank you all for participating!
Head into the peaceful countryside of Japan with Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi by nyacchu and Michi! Brush up on your knowledge of animals, traditional Japanese customs, and natural phenomena as you follow the summertime story of Fox, Tanuki, and Frog. Can you pass the Tanuki University exam?