I have a question. Why did the if50 posts stop appearing on Planet IF?
-Wade
I actually noticed some other stuff has stopped showing up on there - it’s been a couple months since I saw a Renga in Blue post, and the last couple of Emily Short link pieces likewise didn’t make it over. I suspect there are others too.
I don’t know who runs Planet IF but doesn’t seem like these would be intentional omissions so might be worth a flag to them.
EDIT: ok there’s literally about text with contact info right at the top - will send an email!
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I think in this particular case it might have been because I stopped syndicating the posts to my Medium account, which was the one linked to Planet IF.
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Yeah, I had a look at their Jobs/Programmers page and it seems they publish via C# and Unity.
I would say that 80 days was two successes. It was a success in the real world, and also became a success artifact in the alienated world of media awards.
It doesn’t mean that all successful interactive storiies must be written in Ink. I think we can all celebrate that both the public and the industry are ready to embrace a piece of interactive fiction in 202X.
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“Pixelberry’s Choices and the insanely popular, wildly overlooked genre of interactive fiction mobile romance games.”
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Very cool to shine some light on this corner of the industry! Giving me Fusebox flashbacks!
“The dawn of incremental games: how some of the most virally addictive games of the 2010s were nothing but text and numbers going up.”
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“An opera singer’s interactive novel, and a text game company focused more on readers than gamers: Choice of Games.”
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“Text games return to their roots, but this time entwined with the infinite grafts of a strange, brand new technology…”
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4 more days until the final one? Already?
Thank you so much for all your work on this huge project. This has been a delight to read, irrigated the IF community with new info, perspectives, and a broader scope, and I can’t wait for the book!
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Count me in for the book as well!
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“A generator for perfumes and memories that built an incredible meaning-making machine in procedural text.”
(This is the final article in the series, although there will be some final wrap-up thoughts posted soon. Thanks everyone here for letting me keep this thread alive all year!)
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I’ve loved reading all of these, the sensitivity and humanity you bring to a half century of creativity upon the brink of possible has brought joy to me every Thursday. Thank you so much for writing them, and I look forward to the book!
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I just gave this thread a fresh visit last night, and found it very useful for tabbing open all the articles I’d missed first time 'round.
Thank you this bit of extra effort attached to such a wonderful series, @aaronius, and congrats on getting to the end!
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This was really a very illuminating blog series. Loads of different threads to explore here. I particularly enjoyed learning about the Silverwolf group. What an unexpected curiosity!
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just saw this – any feeds for wordpress are busted, so that includes emily’s and mine – the planet-if curator knows
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A most wonderful series, so detailed and well written.
Your thoughts and opinions open my calloused mind with new potential.
Thank you!
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Thanks for writing this series, I really enjoyed it!
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This series was great. I didn’t read every one, but the ones I did were super interesting. The craziest one to me was the one about the feminist commune of Victorian cultists that made a bunch of text adventures:
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The Silverwolf saga seems to be a universal favorite for sure. I’ve seen discussion about this article in gaming communities a step or two away from this one! Such a wild story.
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