I have this sense that if I could just get people to sit down for a few minutes with a game and help them with the conventions, a lot of folks I know would like it, since a lot of folks I know are major readers, play graphic puzzle games and love room escapes, etc. Some of them remember the frustrations of Zork and cannot be convinced that there’s a whole new world of IF out there. My husband won’t play-- even if I wrote it-- because he hates to type and he’s directionally challenged, so the whole NSEWUD thing turns him off big time. However, he will read through a transcript of a game I wrote, and he has faithfully been following @DeusIrae 's Let’s Play: Cragne Manor thread, so he does like the stories. I wonder if there was more stuff like that on one of those “Watch people play games” social media thingies, if it would get more people to try it.
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