See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Interactive Fiction
Leah Williams
If the medium is the message, then AOL’s messaging software — at least for my generation — has the same sentimentality as whatever we talked about over it. That’s the pitch of Emily Is Away Too, a new visual novel that plays out in “EOL” Instant Messenger windows, away messages…
“Enter 25 words or less about your favourite pizza topping for a chance to win!” We’ve seen these sorts of competitions before that supposedly reward your creativity when, in all likelihood, it’ll be randomly drawn anyway. Not so for NVIDIA, which has taken the concept of writing to win to…
There’s a lot to be said for text-based interactive fiction. It engages our imaginations so directly, and gets away from a lot of the challenges present in graphical games that offer interactive stories. In games like Mass Effect and The Walking Dead, more choices mean that the developers need to…
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