Mastering a World of Puzzles

I have not had much experience playing Interactive Fiction works, yet every time I have played there is always something new an author utilizes. This may be the way they use the prose, the commands, or the puzzles that need to be solved. I decided to play Emily Short’s…

“The Baron” and Its Message

Daring and intense, “The Baron”, written by Victor Gijsbers, was not afraid to challenge its player’s moralities.

This interactive fiction game begins when your character wakes one night with a conviction to save his kidnapped daughter from the Baron. As…

Reading Review: Rise of the Videogame Zinesters

It’s rare for any highly-regarded professional to invite amateurs into their industry, especially in the seemingly exclusive gaming industry. Interestingly, the first reading assignment in this ambiguously titled ‘Interactive Digital Storytelling’…

Interactive Fiction are Literature

Gaining skills are a basic part of growing up. As humans we need skills in order to survive, this…

I’m Confused for a Change

I am a new addition to the Interactive Fiction world without formal creative writing or computer programming training. I am a dance filmmaker, and familiar to the art of storytelling but in a vastly different medium. I am able to look at a piece of writing and analyze it simply from the perspective…

Reading Response- “The Prose Medium and IF”

For my reading response, I chose to elaborate on my thoughts and opinions regarding Emily Short’s Wordpress posts that she put together. First, I want to start off by mentioning why I chose this reading to respond to- the one major problem I have always…

Depression Quest as a Cyber text

I have waited three days after Tuesday night when I played Depression Quest for the first time before writing this review. This frame time was necessary to me to disconnect the mixed feelings that playing this game I felt and allow me to analyze the text and the way it is…

Depression Quest: An Eye-Opening Tool of Disproving a Stigma

Even though Depression Quest is considered a fictional interactive text game by general text based standards, the game is not one that should be played lightly and very much taken from real life events and actions. Zoe Quinn…

Murder Mystery or Misunderstood Mystery?

I decided to play the 2014 IFCOMP game Missive by Joey Fu. I was initially interested in this game because of the love-triangle, murder mystery angle because I love a good scandal. While that was my initial idea of the plot, through playing the game I found there were actually several…