Fictionally interactive

My games

My reviews

• Whom the Telling Changed (first published in SPAG #43);
• Ekphrasis (first published in SPAG #47);
• Coverage of the French Minicomp 2008 (written as part of the grading process).
• A review of Echo Bazaar beta (22 February 2011)
• Two story games where you are the detective (7 October 2016)

My articles

• Text games forever (14 May 2020) — plain text version
• Try this INSTEAD (11 May 2020)
• Walking simulators and interactive fiction (24 December 2019)
• The texture of a game (17 August 2018) — plain text version
• Parser-less text adventures: where is everybody? (11 April 2018)
• Eamon: between CRPGs and interactive fiction (13 April 2017)
• Rescuing the interactive fiction parser from oblivion (25 December 2016)
• User interfaces in text-based games (18 December 2016)
• Designing a standard library for interactive fiction (6 December 2016)
• Gamebooks in Alan 3 (6 December 2016)
• Interactive fiction as media tie-in (6 November 2016) — plain text version
• Three faces of Twine (20 October 2016)
• On cross-pollination in text-based games (28 April 2016)
• Markers and highlighters: a gamedev metaphor (10 April 2016)
• Games anyone can make (9 June 2015) — plain text version
• Easy as blogging (2 June 2015) — plain text version
• Writing a text adventure in Alan 3 (25 March 2013)
• A look at Alan 3 (5 March 2012)
• Test-driving TADS 3 (23 March 2011)
• Test-driving Inform 7 (19 March 2011)

Me elsewhere

• my IFDB profile
• my IFWiki page
• text adventures

Useful links

The link directory was moved to its own page.

Useful things

I made syntax highlighting files for Inform 6, to be used with the Micro, Nano and mcedit text editors. See this blog post for how to install them.

As of 23 February 2022, these files are incomplete and probably inexact, but should help with a lot of games.