I recently had the great pleasure to give a sermon lecture called “Interactive Fiction: How to program a novel” at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna.
For anyone who’s interested, it’s on YouTube.
Now, the video is in German, but comes with English subtitles. (Depending on your settings, you may have to turn them on via YouTube.)
The lecture includes: suffragettes; how Will Crowther’s wife and daughters changed gaming; an ode to A Mind Forever Voyaging; the fake death of IF; Eastgate; how Inform 7 made me cry; punk rock; Gamergate; NovelAI; and a funny anecdote about Michael Joyce.