Archive for July, 2005
GTxA and the “Hot Coffee” scandal.
Kelmscott 1/2: On Designing AND Making
0 Comments Published by Christy Dena July 19th, 2005 in Uncategorized, HCTI, Text Art, MSA.
William Morris was a pattern designer, printer, calligrapher and weaver in the late 1800s who believed that
the nature of a society’s applied arts and architecture was a litmus text for its moral health and wellbeing. Poor design and gratuitous decoration were the natural results of a workforce divorced from creative decision-making within the […]
Keyword: A link by any other name
9 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 18th, 2005 in Uncategorized, hyperfic, IF, Poetics, bots, Text Art, Criticism, MSA.What is the relationship between a link in a hypertext, a keyword in a chatbot, and an a noun/object in IF? (This isn’t a joke that ends up with talking rope). We might consider this, in light of Christy’s terminology, cross-media poetics.
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The madness has already begun. Fa?ade seems to have far outstripped what was foretold…But wait a second, is it a game at all? The narratologists and ludologists have been assuring me that the debate is over, or never happened, but it might be fruitful here.
There are several ways to use Fa?ade. There […]
Face to Face with Fa?ade 1/5
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino July 5th, 2005 in Uncategorized, Poetics, bots, Text Art, Criticism.Today marks another milestone in interactive drama as Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern launch Fa?ade, a stunning interactive drama.
On the face of it, Fa?ade is everything it describes itself to be. It provides a user the opportunity of being a player in a twenty-minute interactive drama that is serious in tone, but not without […]