On a previous post, I talked about Otome games and how they are an interesting form of electronic literature. Last year, a new type of Otome game came out called Mystic Messenger and it changed the way that Otome games could be. Instead of the traditional hypertext/video game story where in the story there are passages of text and the reader…
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The Basics of Otome
I had no idea what Otome games were but a friend of mine told me she played them and when I asked her what they were she said they were typically romance games and you tried to have fill the love meter as high as you could with the person you chose so reach the best possible ending. When I…
Stranded: Can You Escape the Beach?
Interactive Fiction can take many forms, from being the very simple Zork (though the gameplay is anything but simple) in terms of technological advancement to the text adventure I’m going to introduce you all to today: Beached! This version of the game is in its early stages, posted on the Interactive Fiction Database for feedback so minor bugs could be worked…
How to Kill a Vampire in McDonald’s
There are a lot of different hypertext games that are out there and for those that don’t know what hypertext is, it’s basically a way to tell a story by clicking on different links. There’s a competition held each year to vote for whose new hypertext game is the best. Since the competition has not opened yet for this year,…