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    <title>inkle » In a garden of forking paths…</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-09T22:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.inklestudios.com/archives/267</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We don’t want readers to “master” our inklebooks: we want readers to nurture them. The stories they contain are precious, fragile things, that like any good story might turn at any moment." Yeah, this - moving away from "what happens" to "how it happens" as a tenet for interactive fiction.]]></description>
<dc:subject>joningold inkle interactivefiction choice</dc:subject>
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    <title>House-sized stories for Kindle | Fiction is a Three-Edged Sword</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-07T12:28:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jon is smart, and one of the best writers of interactive fiction (in all its forms) that I know. So I am looking forward to this.]]></description>
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    <title>On the controversial 9/11 image known as ”The Falling Man”: Observatory: Design Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-12T18:56:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’m aware on some level that a photograph is misleading but at the same time we have to remember that photographs are just a frame in time. By its very nature the medium is misleading. We don’t know what is happening outside the frame, we don’t know what happened before the frame, we don’t know what happened after the frame. So I carry in my head two feelings about the Falling Man. On the one hand he was no different than the other jumpers on the day but at the same time I hold onto the essential truth that the image represents." Sontag's "moment selected at the exclusion of other moments" again.]]></description>
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    <title>D Nye Everything: The two and a half deaths of Miranda Lawson</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-25T22:39:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I got my Miranda. I also found out how many times I'll kill the same person in order to get my way, which is also helpful." Great stuff from Dan on Mass Effect 2, and the hoops we go through to make NPCs like us.
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    <title>Click Nothing: Live and Let Die</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-05T22:07:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ultimately, when I reject narrative techniques in favor of ludic ones, what I am really saying is that I reject traditional authorship. I reject the notion that what I think you will find emotionally engaging and compelling - and then build and deliver to you to consume - is innately superior to what you think is emotionally compelling. By extension, I reject the idea that I can make you feel the loss of a friend in a more compelling way by authoring an irreversible system than you could make yourself feel by playing with a system wherein a friend can be both dead and alive simultaneously and wherein his very existence can be in flux based on your playful whim... This discussion is not about how to make a game more meaningful. It is about how games mean." Yep, I still want to marry Clint Hocking.
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    <title>Versus CluClu Land: The Game Made Me Do It</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-03T08:07:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So perverse as it might sound, I'm going to plead for less choice in video games. It's a paradox: by limiting the player's discretion, you can expand the narrative possibilities of the medium. Coercion can create a kind of emotional heft that you can't achieve within the confines of the empowerment-myth." All true, and FC2 is a fantastic example of this. But: this is just one way of making games. More of this, yes, but don't forget all the other approaches.
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    <title>Don’t worry, it won’t hurt you. « Groping The Elephant</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-05T12:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For all the talk of immersion and realism it seems gamers still want games that provide for them, that make them the centre of the action, the pivotal agent in the events of the world, the nexus around which everything is focused." And this is one of the big conflicts within games: you have to make the player feel wanted whilst they're playing the game, make them feel the centre of attention, because without them the game is nothing. But at the same time: can you still tell stories that aren't about them? I expand a little in the comment on the blogpost proper.
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    <title>Out of your control. « Groping The Elephant</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-01T16:21:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In one moment the game had broken the tacit agreement between us. It had failed to respect my character decisions, it had made a pretense of allowing me to define whether Faith violent or not only to pull the rug away at the vital moment and strip all control from me. It lied. Any actions I might have taken to avoid combat up to then were for nothing. It had failed to show me respect so had lost mine." Breaking the unwritten contract with the player is definitely a bad thing, and I didn't notice this - but only because I'd not been aiming for the "no kills" achievement.
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    <title>The Brainy Gamer: Second thoughts</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-19T11:43:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But succeed or fail, my awareness of game design is omnipresent, and I like it that way. It enriches my experience of playing. The in-world experience remains my first thought, but my second thought is nearly always focused on the system, especially when that system demonstrates originality or beautiful execution. I don't think I'm the only gamer who behaves this way." No, but it requires a certain degree of awareness of the medium to think about the second; the first is much more immediate, and the second is about an engagements with games, rather than a particular game.
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    <title>Patsquinade - How my not-great plot happened: a mini post-mortem</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T13:41:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An interesting article at Rock, Paper, Shotgun tackles BioWare's tackling of issues tackling modern society, tackling one of my Mass Effect plots in the process. I responded in the comments, and after looking at how much I yammered on, I figured it was worth posting here as a look inside how these things get into the game, and why some things that seem dumb get done." Patrick Weekes follows up the RPS post criticising his own plot elements with some frank self-criticism, and some interesting explanations; a reminder of how hard creating any kind of meaningful choice can be.
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    <title>Morality Tales - BioWare Versus The Issues | Rock, Paper, Shotgun</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-26T10:49:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/08/26/morality-tales-bioware-versus-the-issues/</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think, in these fleshed out circumstances, an RPG could be the most remarkable place for getting to grips with matters like abortion and euthanasia. I think _because_ they’re the sorts of subjects it’s completely pointless to talk about in the pub, because it inevitably descends into people entrenching themselves in their currently held position and then hurling stones at the other side, that the RPG would be a space in which the emphasis of thought and consideration would be squarely on you." John Walker on the problem with BioWare's attitude to morality, and some potential solutions.
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    <title>Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Reign to the Douchebag Within</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-25T10:28:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/08/gamesfrontiers_0825?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>infovore</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What the hell is wrong with me? There are a lot of ways to win at Civilization Revolution that do not involve taking a happy, peaceful city and reducing it to a smoldering gravesite filled with radioactive trinitite." Clive Thompson on a case of Walter Mitty syndrome.
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