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An overview of narrative design learning resources on my blog: emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mail… (not new, but I'm highlighting to make it easier to find)
End of October Link Assortment emshort.blog/2022/10/31/end-…
There's an open position in Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz that may be of interest to some of you: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371
Nov 1, the London IF Meetup is playing some IF Comp games together online. Feel free to join!
meetup.com/oxford-and-london…
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OPPORTUNITY Internship.
Rts welcome. Not affiliated
For my student friends/folk wanting to break into the industry - we have a super interesting internship role open in our creative division! To work on new story driven games to make our players happy
grnh.se/a034ad4e1us
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions <3
Mid-October Link Assortment emshort.blog/2022/10/15/mid-…
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The excellent Nose Bleed by @stanwixbuster is one of 7 Texture games at this year's Interactive Fiction Competition playable here ifcomp.org/ballot?alphabetiz…
The author has also created this great guide for hacking Texture! stanwixbuster.co.uk/docs/hac…
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The 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition just launched at ifcomp.org! 71 new games! Voting runs through mid-November.
We would love to expand the number of players this year, and you can help! 🧵
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Welcome to the 28th Annual IFComp, folks! blog.ifcomp.org/post/6969175…
End of September Link Assortment emshort.blog/2022/09/30/end-…
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The Authoring Problem should be coming out in November. I've got a chapter in it about how interactive narrative can place a large burden of content creation and complexity management on its author, and the types of strategies they use to overcome this.
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Our 25th Annual Halloween Ghost Story Contest is underway! saugus.net/Contests/Hallowee… and as always interactive fiction stories are welcome along with short stories. This may be our last one ever; please read the note.
Sept 27, the London IF meetup is having an actual in-person session.
Jon Ingold will be talking about mechanics for games of deduction, and Overboard! in particular:
meetup.com/oxford-and-london…
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Meanwhile was extremely cool and I'm psyched to learn there is a new one:
Today’s the day! LEVIATHAN is now available for sale! amazon.com/Adventuregame-Com…
It’s my first interactive comic since MEANWHILE 10 years ago and honestly it was pure joy for me to return to the format…
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I condensed part of my PhD dissertation down to something more article-length. If you're struggling with scope on a dynamic narrative project, try this Authorial Leverage Framework to help figure out how to course correct or prevent future woes: logodaedalus.github.io/Autho…
I'm up to level 23 of this gentle (and free!) puzzle game.
It's lovely -- seemingly simple, but a really elegant bit of design that respects player time. You can always rewind solutions; puzzle mechanics are very naturally taught; none of the levels feel like filler.
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