Emily Short (no longer here)

An overview of narrative design learning resources on my blog: emshort.blog/2019/01/08/mai… (not new, but I'm highlighting to make it easier to find)

Status emshort.blog/2023/03/03/sta…

End of October Link Assortment emshort.blog/2022/10/31/end…

@ThatMadStarship ffs I'm so sorry

My hands are fucking shaking rn. We were at Walmart while we wait for Honey to get done and this fucking racist ass old yt walking corpse called my ma wnd me racist slurs. I almost hit her. I actually almost hit her and would have if my ma hadn't stopped me.

"Candidates should be experienced in the conceptualization, design, development, and critique of interactive, playable forms of computational media. This could include one or more of: video games, interactive narratives, immersive performances..."

There's an open position in Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz that may be of interest to some of you: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371

Nov 1, the London IF Meetup is playing some IF Comp games together online. Feel free to join! meetup.com/oxford-and-lon…

@Autumnsburg @lizardengland Parrigues was Inform code that output LaTeX (or, actually, a slight variant, for reasons I have now totally forgotten). The structure of each section was standard and reliable, and it was not difficult to make the system glue in markup. I did then hand-paste chunks of output.

OPPORTUNITY Internship. Rts welcome. Not affiliated

@aguynamededward Also, fwiw, I later wrote a lot more about this game: emshort.blog/2019/07/16/the…

@aguynamededward Nope! Looks like things have moved around since I originally posted. …eindustries-homepage.s3.amazonaws.com/spy-intrigue/i… would be a better place to look now, I believe. (Thanks for the ping, and I'll fix the post.)

@emshort Hi, I feel quite dumb for asking this, but is link to Spy Intrigue on this page (emshort.blog/2015/10/18/if-…) supposed to link to the download page for the 2022 IFComp? (Messaging just in case it's a glitch :) )

Mid-October Link Assortment emshort.blog/2022/10/15/mid…

@scrooge_200 I don't really recall at this distance, I'm afraid.

@emshort The secret XYZZY response for Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning says that it's their "first adventure". Were there any plans to make more Max Blaster games?

@DiesisKey @failbettergames Sadly, Ada Lovelace died in 1852, years before London fell. (The clocks, as we know, are occasionally treacherous, but extra Red Science would be required in her case.)

@kchironis really wish brains came with a gitignore file I could edit

me: whew! just got the baby back to sleep and it’s 2am. brain: yeah we’re pretty tired me: absolutely, yeah. just starved for sleep. dying for it. brain: cool, i can help. would you like to review a highlight reel of every time you said anything awkward within the last year?

@thelintspeed Congrats!

The excellent Nose Bleed by @stanwixbuster is one of 7 Texture games at this year's Interactive Fiction Competition playable here #entry-2694" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ifcomp.org/ballot?alphabe… The author has also created this great guide for hacking Texture! stanwixbuster.co.uk/docs/hacking-t…

The 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition just launched at ifcomp.org! 71 new games! Voting runs through mid-November. We would love to expand the number of players this year, and you can help! 🧵

Welcome to the 28th Annual IFComp, folks! blog.ifcomp.org/post/696917537…

@RamsHornStudios Not as such right now, though I’ve talked a bit about design process. But if you’re interested in democratising tools in this general arena, here is a thing I’ve been contributing to as a spare time project: intfiction.org/t/inform-evolu… github.com/ganelson/infor…