Reading a choose-your-own-adventure book is pretty fun, but it can be hard to retrace your story. Any attempt to place your chapters back-to-back would require ripping pages out of the book, and that's certainly no fun. » 3/25/14 6:30pm 3/25/14 6:30pm

A game that explores how even the simplest things are difficult, if not impossible, when you have dysphoria. » 3/12/13 1:30pm 3/12/13 1:30pm

When I started SABBAT, I had no idea what to think. It asks you what's in your drawers, and then makes it obvious you're about to kill a bunch of animals in sacrifice—in the hopes that darker powers take you away from your miserable life. » 2/27/13 10:00pm 2/27/13 10:00pm

There's a lot to be said for text-based interactive fiction. It engages our imaginations so directly, and gets away from a lot of the challenges present in graphical games that offer interactive stories. In games like Mass Effect and The Walking Dead, more choices mean that the developers need to make more content,… » 2/14/13 3:30pm 2/14/13 3:30pm

The most recent James Bond game to grace consoles, last week's 007 Legends » 10/24/12 3:30pm 10/24/12 3:30pm

Or is it the dorkiest? However you want to label it, the ability to play Infocom text adventures like Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with a typewriter is without a doubt neat. » 11/02/10 7:40pm 11/02/10 7:40pm

How do a game's designer, player, and protagonist interact? Mike Rubin takes a look at how three parts of a gaming experience interact — especially in terms of interactive fiction games, where many designers plan for responses that don't correlate with how the protagonist should » 8/30/08 3:00pm 8/30/08 3:00pm

Nick Montfort and Andrew Stern have published the text of their very interesting speech given at the Electronic Literature Organization "Visionary Landscapes" conference; the subject is ELIZA, the 1966 parody of a Rogerian therapist — more correctly, it's where the next ELIZA-like program (in terms of influence) is… » 6/08/08 3:30pm 6/08/08 3:30pm

Emily Short has a thought provoking post over on her blog regarding interactive fiction for the "hard-casual" crowd. Can the modern crop of interactive fiction appeal to that segment of the market that isn't the traditional IF crowd, nor the "match three" type of casual player, nor the hardcore audience? Sounds sort… » 6/08/08 1:30pm 6/08/08 1:30pm