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Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star
Cybertext Killed the Hypertext Star
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:14
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Interactive Fiction as Literature
Interactive Fiction as Literature
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.09.2011 - 14:34
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Because It's Not There: Ekphrasis and the Threat of Graphics in Interactive Fiction
Existing scholarship on interactive fiction (IF, also known as the text adventure) tends to treat it as a video game genre and/or as a category of electronic literature. In this essay I argue that IF can be understood as participating in traditions of visual prose and ekphrastic textuality, insofar as IF consists of room and object descriptions which direct the player to visualize the things they describe. Unlike traditional ekphrastic literature, however, IF also asks the player to take practical actions in response to the images he or she visualizes. During the commercial era of IF, ekphrasis was the most effective means available of providing players with immersive visual experiences. However, graphical video games have now surpassed IF in this area. Therefore, in order to justify the continued existence of IF, contemporary IF authors have been forced to conceive of the visuality of IF otherwise than in terms of the logic of transparency. One strategy for doing this, exemplified by Nick Montfort's game, Ad Verbum, is to abandon visuality almost entirely and emphasize IF's linguistic and textual qualities.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 12:20
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Interview with Andy Campbell: “Digital Fiction and Interactive Fiction”
Interview with Andy Campbell: “Digital Fiction and Interactive Fiction”
Fabio De Vivo - 22.10.2011 - 11:14
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Collaborations in E-lit
This essay, a discussion between two esteemed e-poets for whom collaboration is an integral part of their creative practice, appeared in the "The Collaborative Turn" special issue of American Book Review, guest-edited by Davis Schneiderman. In their discussion, Montfort and Strickland survey several common types of e-lit collaboration and provide links to representative examples. Strickland explicitly links the material aesthetics of code poetics to literary theorist Timothy Morton's call for critical thinking that engages the universe's enmeshed interconnectedness, which he dubs "the ecological thought."
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.12.2011 - 11:45
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Computing Language and Poetry
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Montfort introduced a new critical term, stanzory, which refers to "a unit of lines in a poem that is also a narrative with some sort of point."
Presented at the 2012 MLA Convention as part of the "730. New Media Narratives and Old Prose Fiction" panel, arranged by the Division on Prose Fiction. Other panelists included Dene Grigar and Joseph Tabbi. The moderator, filling in for Amy Elias, was Heather M. Houser.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 15:45
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Interactive Fiction Communities: From Preservation through Promotion and Beyond
The interactive fiction (IF) community has for decades been involved with the authorship, sharing, reading, and discussion of one type of electronic literature and computer game. Creating interactive fiction is a game-making and world-building activity, one that involves programming as well as writing. Playing interactive fiction typically involves typing input and receiving a textual response explaining the current situation. From the first canonical interactive fiction, the minicomputer game Adventure, the form has lived through a very successful commercial phase and is now being actively developed by individuals, worldwide, who usually share their work for free online.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2012 - 07:24
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Curveship: An Interactive Fiction System for Narrative Variation
A report on the interactive-fiction system Curveship, which was designed to provide users a means of generating narrative variation.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.04.2012 - 09:25
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Forms of Future
Forms of Future
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.05.2012 - 09:29
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Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 09.05.2012 - 08:58
