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…

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…

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…

My Life As Sisyphus: A Take on Depression Quest

As a self-proclaimed experienced gamer who has been around the block a few or a thousand-dozen times when it comes to the variety of games I have come across, none have the overwhelming ability to take full control of my emotional state and plunge…

Emphasis on Interaction

Emily Short’s Galatea is a story revolving entirely around a Non-Player Character, or NPC, for which the story is named. Unlike the typical NPC, which, in many games, repeats one or two lines over and over, Galatea is fully developed, providing endless ways to interact with her.