This work has been written about before but I have a somewhat different take to it so I will give it a shot. Family Tree by Rozalie Hirs and Harm Van Den Dorpel explores the meaning of a family tree. Its most basic shape is much like that of a typical family tree, where there are many branches at the bottom…
Author: adavis7
The Wolf Among Us: a comic book video game
There’s a fairly new development in video games that I would consider to be electronic literature. These games work almost like an interactive movie, wherein the Player Character (PC) is given a story-like situation with choices on how to respond. Often the style of these games is like that of comic books and graphic novels with blocked color shading and…
on “cheating” in interactive fiction
When I say cheating I mean looking up solutions to puzzles. When I say cheating I mean it isn’t really cheating. Cheating implies that there are others to compete against, and by winning you are depriving others of a deserved win. Let me be clear when I say that looking online for solutions for puzzles shouldn’t necessarily be your first…