For this blog post again I was just searching the internet, trying to find a work that caught my eye. A google search for, you’d never guess – hypertext poem – turned up an interesting blog that explains a different definition of hypertext. In class, we had always looked at hypertext as a work broken into pages that were linked…
Author: Natalie Nash
Twisty Little Passages:An Approach to IF, Chapter 2 ‘Riddles’ -Montfort
So for this weeks blog I decided I would look into the actual genre of interactive fiction instead of just one specific work. In looking around for an interesting article I came across a novel called ‘Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction’ by Nick Montfort. I started skimming the book and realized it was much too long to write…
My attempt to be ‘creative’ ended up looking like something for a third grader..but third graders need E-lit too right??
So basically I could say my creative project came awful close to a complete failure. Of course I don’t know if Dr.Whalen agrees and if it was reflected in my grade, and of course I hope not, but it did not turn out anything like what I had imagined. Well it kinda turned out like I imagined but once I…
“There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are ‘public secrets’
In the work “Public Secrets” by Sharon Daniel and Erik Loyer, the secrets of the California State Prison are revealed through a compilation of statements from those currently imprisoned. The work begins with an intro defining a ‘public secret’ as a secret that is known but the public pretends to be oblivious to, in this case, the truth behind the…
a short story or the story of life?
Works of literature often have a message they aim to convey about life. Whether it be where you should, could, or would go in life or how to go about doing so, they give insight into what the author thinks life is for. These message can be interpreted in innumarable ways and are rarely interpreted the exact same way by…
Map > Random words…definitely
To be honest, before the beginning of this class I had never once heard of hypertext, text adventure, or even half of the compute terms Dr.Whalen uses on a daily basis but I feel like I’ve been missing out. It’s one thing to read a novel.. page one..page two..page three.. in order, as it was intended to be read, but…