Inconsequential nomenclature is actually quite common, if not encouraged in a way to make things memorable. All the more so when you can extend a bit further on the covert possible interpetations of it; Surely the creators intended to evoke the imagery of tender, fragrant blossoms (articles) blooming through the cracks of weathered stone (the realities of life), a testament to the resilient spirit of nature (humanity), unyielding in the face of harsh conditions…
Or, you know, it’s a cute name that can have a neat logo. Doesn’t need much more than that. Looking forward to the articles!
OK, I pushed the button. There are two articles up, but first we’re going to shout about @kamineko’s interview with @cchennnn: five thousand words about A Pageant Between Worlds, The Archivist and the Revolution, art and entertainment, STEM and stories, Dendry, and more.
Would it be possible to have a tab/link on the header to go through articles?
Aside from Welcome and Submission, you can’t really get to the articles unless you know the link of the article…
Ah, I was wondering if that was unclear. If you click the logo/header it’ll take you back to the homepage which has a list. Guess I’ll add a Home link along with Welcome and Submissions then.
Y’all may already know this, but there is a Wordpress / Discourse plugin, the interesting features of which seem to be:
Automatically post new articles as a thread the forum with the right author info / tags / etc.
Optionally embed followup posts (or just snippets, etc, etc.) on that thread at the bottom of the wordpress article.
Feature 1. seems like a modest convenience. Feature 2. seems particularly interesting as a way to help promote and encourage discussion in the way that a comment thread does, but without many of the drawbacks of inline comments. (I assume you have them disabled on WordPress for a reason!) But it looks like you’d need some support from the admins here to get it wired up.
I signed up for the Rosebush RSS (The Rosebush), but the Christminster analysis didn’t show up there. There’s the interview with Autumn, and a couple ‘welcome’ articles (one from July 29th and one from May 17th), but that’s it. Did the ‘Theory’ section end up with its own RSS, or something?
Clicking on the banner at the top just takes me to the welcome page. I can’t find how to get to the articles either in the navigation menu or the footer
Ugh. I thought I got a Home link in the menu even on mobile. Maybe try Latest – The Rosebush for now? Unfortunately (?) the new Welcome article was the most recent thing (did we edit it, or re-post it? hmm) so it shows up first on the “Latest” page and even there you probably have to scroll down to see the articles.
I need to get to work now, but I’ll take a look again later and see if I can figure out what’s up. Mike Preston (AdeMcT) set up the site and I’m filling in while he’s slammed at work for a few weeks so I’m not as familiar with the inner workings.
That RSS (The Rosebush) also doesn’t have the Christminster article. And it also has a lot of articles with interesting titles past-dated from 2018 and 2020 with ‘loren ipsum’ text
Here’s what I see right now on mobile: When I go to the-rosebush.com, it takes me straight to a list of the latest articles, under the heading “The Latest.”
If I tap the hamburger menu at the top left, there is a drop-down menu with a search box and, below that, three options: “Welcome,” “Home,” and “Submissions.”
The footer of every page I have looked at says “The Rosebush” (which doesn’t appear to be a link) with horizontal lines above and below it, and below that are options for “Welcome” and “Submissions,” but not “Home.”
Tapping on “The Rosebush” banner at the top takes me to the list of latest articles.
I’m not seeing the issue some others have reported where you can’t find the articles at all, although maybe it would be a good idea to also include a link for that in the footer menu.
Edit: Or maybe you could consider putting a link (in both menus?) that specifically says “Articles” or “Latest Articles”?
Hrmph. I’m stumped: I can’t duplicate that. That’s the URL I have in my feed reader (with a trailing slash, but it seems to redirect if you leave it off), and it just has the welcome article, the interview, and the Christminster article. I tried logging into my linode instance and another server I have access to, and fetching from there, and I get the same XML in both places. I don’t think it’d make sense for it to be a caching issue since you didn’t have it before… I’m not sure what else to look at. I’ll ping Ade and see if he knows where else to look.
@bg Thanks. I hadn’t realized I’d missed the menu at the bottom. I added it there and changed both of them to say Articles instead of Home: I like that.
Ah, hmm. If I just go to that URL, I do indeed see the three new articles (including Christminster) so I guess my rss reader was just out of date; maybe it’ll sync better tomorrow or something. Anyway, I have indeed read everything, and they were great, so thanks again
New article: Guybrush’s Heirs - Mike Russo looks at design convergence between limited parser games, choice games with things like a map or inventory, and graphical point-n-click adventures.
Well done @DeusIrae ! An interesting read and a valid point of view.
Alongside, or maybe just before the rise of point’n’click games, there was the brief experimentation with hybrid parser/click semi-graphic games. Legend’s Gateway duology and Eric the Unready come to mind. When I first played Bones of Rosalinda, these hybrids were my immediate point of comparison.
Here’s to the inevitable triumph of the Russovian synthesis paradigm:
Re “constructing a parser-style command from a verb menu”:
The analogy does break down if pushed too far; many later point-and-click interfaces eventually phased out alternate verbs entirely […]
Well, that’s the rub, isn’t it? As the article notes, the genre moved down a path of fewer and fewer verbs in the verb menu. In some sense, a game with fifteen or nine or five verbs feels transitional. So it’s more a question of when the analogy has been pushed far enough.
