Archive for July, 2005
Run to it Quickly
2 Comments Published by Christy Dena July 30th, 2005 in Uncategorized, games, Text Art.TNT has launced a “micro-site” for the US TV series Wanted. On the site are 2 interactive comics which are the most interesting I have seen in a while. They mix ‘old media’ styles with new ones. For instance, the pages are turned (which we’ve discussed before), the hand-drawn cells are read/viewed, but then […]
SubEthaEdit-orializing
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 28th, 2005 in IF, Features, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.The writing collective Millenium uses SubEthaEdit collaborative software.
World’s Longest Sentence
3 Comments Published by Christy Dena July 24th, 2005 in Uncategorized, HCTI, Text Art.A collaborative sentence was started way back in 1994 by Douglas Davis. The sentence has grown since then and in 2000 there were about 200,000 entries in many languages. There is only one rule for input: no period at the end of a post. People have entered symbols, stories, ASCII art, links to other […]
The Kingdom of Loathing (KoL) is a a freeware game that is a text and stick-figure adventure game. It was brought out by Zack Johnson and Josh Nite of Asymmetric Publications. The game has been in a beta-test for the last couple of years but was officially launched on 9th June […]
Puppetmasters Revealed
4 Comments Published by Christy Dena July 22nd, 2005 in Off Topic, games, Fictionality.If you don’t already know about them, ARGs (alternate reality gaming) are huge. They are ‘games’ that traverse reality by delivering events through realistic websites, actors, faxes, phone calls and so on, over months. Some puppet-masters (people who create and orchestrate these games) are presenting at the ARGfest NYC: The Art of the Game […]