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Fortnightly Fiction Jam is a series of interactive fiction writing sprints that I recently started up. It's been a lot of fun.

NarraScope 2020, a grassroots conference celebrating narrative games, will hold its second annual conference online from May 28 - June 4. Registration is free.

This weekend I’ll be speaking and exhibiting at a special UC Santa Cruz exhibition by Oakland-based text exhibition series Writ Large. The program looks fantastic,...

This year, the ACM Hypertext Conference is offering a Creative Track in an effort to bring in more artists, which I have graciously been asked to Chair. This year's conference theme is "missing link," which is perfect for how we see this exhbition.

When games reference other games, it’s almost always done in a flippant, shallow way, but allusions represent a greater possibility for ambiguity, multivalence, and expressive depth. Games deserve—and are increasingly ready to harness—that depth.

Last Friday I was totally buried and couldn’t make it to the Scholar’s Play stream, so I logged in to watch. For the first time I really understood why people watch other people play games, something I hadn’t even really figured out when we started the stream.

A few weeks ago, IF author Porpentine created a game jam for tiny hypertext games called TwinyJam. The goal was to create a hypertext game in 300 words or less. The results were impressive; 239 games were entered into the jam.

Paperknife is an evocative experimental hypertext game that uses virtual space as a literal interpretation of branching narrative structures. You play as a child psychologist who’s...