Ian Livingstone’s Top Tips for Interactive Fiction

Writing Tips from a Master of the Genre

Goodbye Words!

Some Reflections on Running an IF Meet-up

Sniffing Wizards

That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.

Stephen King once said: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” So, while writing and discussing one another’s work is a huge part of what Hello Words does, sometimes…

The Story So Far…

On the 12th January, we held the very first session of Hello Words. I went through the typical panics associated with this kind…

The UnBEARable Lightness of Punning

Or: Comedy in Twine & IF, via Xalavier Nelson Jr’s Screw You Bear Dad!

Happy Pony Valley Riding School

A silly equine Twine

Punching Nazis

Will Ellwood’s Nazi Punching Simulator 2017

I’ll confess, when Will first mentioned sharing his short Twine game Nazi Punching Simulator 2017, I was a little dubious. Not because I had any qualms about the Nazi-punching part, but because I…

Collaborate and Listen

Embarking on our collaborative game