Click here to read and play Bee, a new interactive fiction from Emily Short, who's helping develop Linden Lab's new text adventure game platform for Linden Lab, code-named Dio. Starts out strongly, with evocative writing. It's novel-length (47,000 words), but you can read it at your leisure over many sessions, because it's on an interesting new platform called Varytale, which deploys interactive fiction on any Internet-connected device, and automatically updates your progress through any given story. Click here to read more about it.
Speaking of which, the Wikipedia entry for Emily Short, an acclaimed pioneer of interactive fiction, also makes interesting reading:
For instance, it says Emily Short is a pseudonym, but doesn't say who she is beyond that. And now the pseudonymous author is working for a company that specializes in pseudonymous avatars.
Hat tip: Waxy.org.
Tweet
I read interactive fiction on the net all the time by clicking on links I think I choose to. It's called reality interactive fiction, similar to what reality TV is to traditional TV.
Posted by: Ramesh Ramloll | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 11:52 AM
/calls child protective services on the parents in that intro paragraph.
Posted by: Pussycat Catnap | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 12:07 PM
"Login with Facebook". Sorry, they lost me before I got started (even if it's optional).
Posted by: Graham Mills | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 12:30 PM
The FB login is totally optional, far as I can tell.
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 12:37 PM