Text games, cats. This they writes and writes about parser games.
Baton Rouge, they.
Drew Cook: A Biting Cat
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seeing my work discussed with such thoughtfulness and care feels incredible
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#interactivefiction #parser #pww
Scouring the text of Infocom's Hollywood Hijinx.
One thing I note is that the protagonist exists beyond the world of their game. They have a family, a backstory. Anecdotes. This isn't a thing many Infocom games afford, at least not in such detail.
#infocom
inform trail camera will be up for a few hours this afternoon!
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The second part of Gold Machine's series on Hollywood Hijinx is up! It was definitely worth a second look.
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I've finished up my series on Infocom's Hollywood Hijinx. I don't enjoy it mechanically, but it's a good natured game that gives a critic a lot to think about.
golmac.org/remembering-...
I've finished up my series on Infocom's Hollywood Hijinx. I don't enjoy it mechanically, but it's a good natured game that gives a critic a lot to think about.
golmac.org/remembering-...
The last in a two-part series about creating new conditional phrases and adjectives in Inform 10
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#interactivefiction #inform
The Review-a-Thon is coming! Play less-exposed IF games and write reviews about them!
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A quick note on IF tools: we're making MP3 a first-class audio format for Blorb. And thus, *eventually*, for Inform 7.
See thread: intfiction.org/t/adding-mp3...
Visible Deadline is now up!
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That's the Visible-Zorker edition of Infocom's original mystery game, Deadline. I had a bunch of fun diagramming the NPC navigation logic on the map.
The lack of MP3 support in Glulx is causing problems for Inform: both currently and in the future. For most purposes, AIFF and Ogg Vorbis are fine—but Safari only supports MP3, AAC, and WAV. This mean...
