Author Archives: Alan

Doggerland design notes

Digital favorites

So about a month ago I entered a new Twine piece of mine, called Doggerland, into the Spring Thing competition,…

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Feu de Joie: Session 3 now online

Good news, the third Session of Feu de Joie is now online. The rabbit hole is deeper. You as a…

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kettled

‘I donâ€™t have the books that I need at home with me, so the theoretical interlude might be a bit…

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Feu de Joie: Session 2 now online

This is a bit belated, but Iâ€™ve uploaded Session 2 to Feu de Joie (http://www.feudejoie.net). The walls start closing in…

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Alanâ€™s Very Very First AWP Conference

I have no idea how Iâ€™ve managed to not go, for all of these years? But consider itâ€™s in Minneapolis…

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Feu de Joie (new serialized interactive fiction project begins!)

So for the last few months Iâ€™ve been hunkered away getting a new project started, and the first installment is…

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Reading in Chicago

So next Tuesday Iâ€™ll be in Chicago reading at the Tuesday Funk Reading series with other fine folk. Iâ€™ll be…

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[IFComp 2014: AlethiCorp]

AlethiCorp by Simon Christiansen Interactive fiction can create a sense of spatiality with a minimum of ingredients. It doesnâ€™t have…

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[IFComp 2014] Icepunk

Icepunk by pageboy What has impressed me most about this yearâ€™s comp is the variety of forms the games have…

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[IFComp 2014] Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes

Hey, so Iâ€™m going to try to review works of interactive fiction for the 20th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. I…

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infidel poetics

The anonymous lyric, including the riddle and the metrical charm, appears to have been gradually eclipsed by the emergence of…

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STOP KILLING ME PLZ: a piece of random flotsam from gaming culture

“I remember this, you werenâ€™t suppose to run away ^.^ ..heâ€™s a friend of mine, would trap people like that…

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“We are often reminded of the countless procedures which Christianity once employed to make us detest the body; but let…

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The Apocalypse Project

(This has not been tested. This is ‘just writing.â€™)

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news: Cryptophasia and “Wildfires of Antarctica”

Iâ€™ve been very busy. Iâ€™ve also been doing a social media fast/sabbatical/what-have-you, which has been really great, and has given…

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Solarium wins Best Story Award

The XYZZY awards (http://xyzzyawards.org) showcase the best of interactive fiction in a given year-with voting open to all-and is one…

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On the Minnesota Book Awards

I wasnâ€™t able to find a place to publish this essay about the Minnesota Book Awards and their lack of…

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on oneâ€™s own work

just two scattered thoughts on the discussion about end of year self-promotion/”hey this work exists!” posts about stories for awards.…

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Ambiguity in the Dungeon of Good and Evil

Iâ€™ve been getting back into playing a bit of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a rogue-like, and came across this in…

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Welcome to the Club

Itâ€™s hard to know how to either quantify or qualify universalism, because so many communities make a claim to at…

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