80 days is an interactive fiction game by InkleStudios. The game is written in their InkleWriter platform that allows users to create narratives that progress given the choices that they make. Based on the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in 80 Days, you assume the role of Passepartout who is the servant to Monsieur Fogg. Fogg has bet that he…
Channel of the North is a collaborative project created by Jan Baeke and Alfred Marseille in 2012. Jan Baeke is a poet, digital poet, translator, editor, and programmer. On the other hand, Alfred Marseille works with video, sound, photography and installation art; and also has a background in philosophy and electronic music. With that being said, this project combines data visualization, poetry,…
For this blog post I decided to go a little farther out of my comfort zone and play an Interactive Fiction game that was written in Spanish. I have to brush up on my Spanish anyways, so this would be a good start. I used the E-Literature Collection to find the game. Golpe de Gracia is a narrative hypermedia game…
For my final article, I decided to play a game that combines poetry and poker. Marko Niemi Created the game what he has called Stud Poetry. Stud Poetry is like any other Poker game that basically has the same rules. In the beginning, you create a game on who you want to be. Like I said early, the games are…
In the panoramic interactive drama, What We Will by John Clayley, the audience gets to navigate through panoramas by clicking and moving the mouse around. The creative work allows users to experience live-recorded soundscapes with layers of dramatic art elements. By exploring human figures, you get to learn more about their memories and secrets from the past. http://www.z360.com/what/- first scene…
At first glance, Captain Jumbo seems to be a bright, sunny, and sweet game where you explore the world through the eyes of a toddler. Pretty early in the game you start realizing it is quite the opposite and it turns your world upside down. It is a brutal but important story to tell and it takes you in a direction…
I found this twitter bot @SaveHumanities by Mark Sample which tweets potential solutions on how to solve the crisis of humanity. Each tweet starts with “To save the humanities we need” followed by “solution” likely generated by other’s tweets containing “we need.” Most of these tweets are fairly absurd or nonsensical, although, on occasion there is a tweet that relates or proposes…
I began to explore different sites to try and discover a piece that was unusual and I stumbled upon a website known as “the code of things” which was created by Benjamin Laird where he created a project that, “investigation into biographical poetry in print and programmable media. Specifically, how the media in which biographical poetry is written changes the nature…
For my assignment, I played with Nothing You Have Done Deserves Praise. The game involves you going through different levels, where you must move in different directions, or jump up or go down. As you do so, different phrases of praise appear and encouraging you to keep going further with the game. Surrounding the character and the screen was strange…
If you like historical dramas, you’ll enjoy this sweet treat of a text adventure rich and coated with French history and a scandalous marriage. The First Draft of the Revolution was created in 2012 by the masterminds Emily Short and Liza Daly. Short is best known for her award-winning interactive fiction game Galata. This game is an interactive epistolary story between a handful…