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1. A Clash between Game and Narrative

   In this paper presentation I'll be making a simple point. That computer games and narratives are very different phenomena and, as a consequence, any combination of the two, like in "interactive fiction", or "interactive storytelling" faces enormous problems.
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   Introduction

   Patricia Tomaszek - 14.09.2010 - 13:08

2. The International Interactive Fiction Community

   In this talk, I describe some details of how these communities have functioned over the years: What forums, chat systems, publications, competitions, directories, archives, and other sorts of institutions and traditions are used to build new aesthetic appreciations of IF, to enable people to learn more about programming, design, and writing, and to to connect IF authors and players. My analysis, which draws on my experience as a member of “the IF community” while also considering online artifacts and discourses could be helpful in other electronic literature communities. It will also consider how existing community activity could help to connect IF more effictively with poets, fiction writers, artists, and and others who work in creative computing.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 15.10.2010 - 16:51

3. Digital Media

   The chapter takes readers through a semester of teaching narrative-based electronic literature works, including interactive fiction, storyspace hypertexts, web hypertexts, email fiction and interactive web-based narratives.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:24

4. Galatea

   Galatea is a work of interactive fiction set in an art gallery an undetermined amount of time in the future. The player takes on the role of an unnamed art critic examining works of personality referred to in the story as “animates.” Galatea is the name of one such animate however, unlike the other exhibits at the museum (which are forays into rudimentary artificial intelligence,) Galatea was a sculpted women who simply willed herself to life. The player must interact with Galatea through text commands until they get one of several endings.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:57

5. L’avventura è l’avventura

   Italian blog about interactive fiction.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:01

6. Interactive Fiction? I prefer Adventure

   Interview with Don Woods about how he built upon Will Crowthers Colossal Cave Adventure in 1976, making it more game-like.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:03

7. Colossal Cave Adventure

   The first work of interactive fiction was Colossal Cave Adventure. Its first iteration was developed in 1975-76 by Will Crowther, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based programmer who was part of the team that developed ARPANET, the original network infrastructure on which the Internet is based (Montfort, 1997, p. 86), and subsequently expanded by Don Woods (1977). Crowther turned his programming skills towards a game about cave exploration after his divorce in order to entertain his children when they visited him (Nelson, 2001, p. 343). Crowther had been a spelunker in his past, helping to map a network of caverns in Kentucky (Jerz, 2007). He used that experience as the basis for the network of caves described in Adventure. The game itself provided a relatively simple experience of navigation and puzzle solving. Players attempted to retrieve objects from within the cave environments, and to win by completing their collection—a kind of textual geocaching.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:06

8. Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky

   Because so little primary historical work has been done on the classic text computer game "Colossal Cave Adventure", academic and popular references to it frequently perpetuate inaccuracies. "Adventure" was the first in a series of text-based games ("interactive fiction") that emphasize exploring, puzzles, and story, typically in a fantasy setting; these games had a significant cultural impact in the late 1970s and a significant commercial presence in the early 1980s. Will Crowther based his program on a real cave in Kentucky; Don Woods expanded this version significantly. The expanded work has been examined as an occasion for narrative encounters [Buckles 1985] and as an aesthetic masterpiece of logic and utility [Knuth 1998]; however, previous attempts to assess the significance of "Adventure" remain incomplete without access to Crowther's original source code and Crowther's original source cave. Accordingly, this paper analyzes previously unpublished files recovered from a backup of Woods's student account at Stanford, and documents an excursion to the real Colossal Cave in Kentucky in 2005.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:39

9. Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction

   This monograph outlines the history of interactive fiction from its beginnings in the 1970s, through its commercial primetime in the 1980s, its community-based explosion in the 1990s and into the 21st century. Riddles are presented as the primary literary ancestor of interactive fictions, which allows Montfort too see IF as literary but as more than simply narrative.  The book provides a vocabulary and approach for describing the genre and also presents new interpretations of selected games and summarises previous readings and discussions of works.

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   A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 21:45

10. Mindwheel

    Mindwheel

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.03.2011 - 13:02

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