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A Beginner's Guide To Playing Interactive Fiction
Interactive fiction: half game, half book
Interactive Fiction (or IF for short) is both a computer game and a book, or rather something in between. You usually take on the role of the main character in a story. The game tells you what happens to the character, and you tell the game how the character should act. This is…
Alistair.cockburn.us | A User Story Is The Title Of One Scenario Whereas A Use Case Is The Contents Of Multiple Scenarios
User stories versus use cases
A user story is the title of one scenario, whereas a use case is the contents of multiple scenarios.
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
The episode as a platonic grouping of assets
The core of the PIPs data model is the episode. As explained above this is not the broadcast or the media asset but the more platonic grouping of media assets. I’ve heard this described in many ways from assets / broadcasts with the same “editorial intent” to assets /…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
We are what we eat, but what we eat is also a reflection of who (we think) we are
We are what we eat, but what we eat is also a reflection of who (we think) we are. In other words, the stories we tell about the things we take into our bodies reflect the stories we tell about our more mysterious selves. [...] This mirroring effect between substance and self…
Feedly Wins Evernote Platform Award | Building Feedly
Integration of feeds reading and taking notes
Crime fiction author Ed James uses feedly and Evernote to conduct research for upcoming novels. “I subscribe to ten or so newspapers and sift through the stories every day, saving the interesting ones. Later, when I’m writing a new novel, I look through the articles, both for…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
First hypertext systems: the spot
The hypertext formats of the 1990s support many kinds of narrative writing, from voyeuristic soap operas aimed at advertising revenues to postmodernist experimental fiction for university students. The first widely successful hypertext narrative is "The Spot", a sexually…
The active audience
When the writer expands the story to include multiple possibilities, the reader assumes a more active role. Contemporary stories, in high and low culture, keep reminding us of the storyteller and inviting us to second-guess the choices he or she has made. This can be unsettling…
Hypertext fiction: lexias and hyperlinks
The accessibility of the World Wide Web has introduced a growing audience to hypertext fiction. Hypertext is a set of documents of any kind (images, texts, charts, tables, video clips) connected to one another by links. Stories written in hypertext can be divided into scrolling…
Multiform story
I am using the term multiform story to describe a written or dramatic narrative that presents a single situation or plot line in multiple versions, versions that would be mutually exclusive in our ordinary experience. [...] Multiform stories often reflect different points of…
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Inform: interactive fiction in natural language
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of…
Hush Up | Define Hush Up At Dictionary.com
To hush up
tv. to keep something a secret; to try to stop a rumor from spreading. : We wanted to hush up the story, but there was no way to do it. Keep from public knowledge, suppress mention of. For example, They tried to hush up the damaging details . [First half of 1600s]
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Le grandi storie che ci raccontiamo
Uno si costruisce grandi storie, questo è il fatto, e può andare avanti anni a crederci, non importa quanto pazze sono, e inverosimili, se le porta addosso, e basta. Si è anche felici, di cose del genere. Felici. E potrebbero non finire mai. Poi, un giorno, succede che si rompe…
Maybe The Homepage Is Alive After All: Quartz Is Trying A New Twist On The Traditional Website Front Door » Nieman Journalism Lab
Website homepage builds up reader loyalty
It was only a couple months ago that Quartz was making a bold proclamation: “The homepage is dead, and the social web has won.” The behavior of news consumers online was shifting rapidly away from the old way — going to a news site’s homepage, looking for an article that…
Paul Auster - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Search for identity and personal meaning
Following his acclaimed debut work, a memoir entitled The Invention of Solitude, Auster gained renown for a series of three loosely connected detective stories published collectively as The New York Trilogy. These books are not conventional detective stories organized around a…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
In the vedanta philosophy, nothing exists except god
But this is because we think of God as the King of the Universe, the Absolute Technocrat who personally and consciously controls every detail of his cosmos—and that is not the kind of God in my story. In fact, it isn’t my story at all, for any student of the history of…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The story that keeps us together
Sense of self over time is therefore ‘the story that we tell ourselves that keeps us together.’
A castle with eleven inhabitants
Once upon a time, in a castle on a large hill, there lived eleven strange, fractious individuals.