Gravitation is one of the games that we played in class, but I didn’t give it much thought until I attended a student’s presentation on the source code as a text of literature that can be read for meaning. The creator, Jason Rohrer, released a statement indicating his reasoning behind creating Gravitation: “I needed to make a game about…
Author: darlingchaos
Fandom and E-lit
Something that has occurred to me is the nature of fanfiction and fandom, and how the internet has helped it flourish. One thing that I’m starting to wonder is if all fanfiction falls within the “electronic literature” genre–certainly some works do, but they could just as easily be handwritten and distributed within an in-real-life audience. Works of fanfiction that are…
Shameless Shill
This is a shameless shill for my own game, Dead Sprint, which I’m working on for my final project (I turned in a draft for my creative project.) Right now it’s in a very early stage, as I learned rather the hard way, writing a work of interactive fiction with the level of intricacy and detail that I want…
Bunny Thespians: A Reply
This is kind of an opinion piece, so I hope it counts for the checkpoint. I’d like to reply to Chelsea’s blogpost in which she questions whether or not the 30 second bunny theatre can count as electronic literature. I think discounting videos such as the 30 Second Bunny ones based on their derivative content isn’t quite valid. Considering…