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Interactive Fiction News Roundup, August 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Here’s the first of what will probably be an irregular roundup of what’s happening in the world of interactive fiction and digital storytelling. Got something to share? Let us know! You can email alex...
More game listings, and an interactive fiction calendar 21 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
A couple of months ago, we started accepting more game listings on textadventures.co.uk, opening the site up to allow all kinds of web-browser games, such as those created using Twine, Inform or Undum...
QuestComp 2013 – the results 15 Jul 2013 | 03:49 pm
The winner of QuestComp 2013, and the £100 prize money, is Heal Butcher with Worship the Pig. Congratulations! Very close runner up is Jonathan Estis with Pest. For the full results, listing all the...
IFComp 2013 announced 26 Jun 2013 | 01:48 am
The IFComp 2013 has been officially announced! This is the biggest text adventure competition there is – now in its 18th year. Entries can be written for any interactive fiction platform, and it usua...
QuestComp 2013 – the entries are in! 16 Jun 2013 | 04:22 pm
The entries for QuestComp 2013 are now in! They are: Worship the Pig by Heal Butcher Pest by Jonathan Estis Over to organiser, Evan Williams: Score as 1 – 10, mark any discussion threads in the fo...
Now accepting all kinds of web-based text adventure games 11 Jun 2013 | 07:46 pm
We’re now accepting a bigger range of submissions at textadventures.co.uk. What does this mean? It means that all web-based text adventure games are now accepted! Why do this? We want to make it eas...
The future of digital stories – thoughts from the Futurebook Innovation Workshop 2013 3 Jun 2013 | 02:18 pm
Last Thursday I attended the Futurebook Innovation Workshop, programmed by The Literary Platform – a very interesting afternoon of presentations and workshops on what I will call “digital storytelling...
“Filbert and the Broccoli Escape” – an interactive children’s book for iPad 19 May 2013 | 07:11 pm
Our latest free app is for iPad is now available – an illustrated interactive children’s book called Filbert and the Broccoli Escape, by Erik Fetler. Filbert, the world’s laziest boy, always looks fo...
Making it easier to use text adventures and Quest in the classroom – ActiveLit 15 May 2013 | 06:31 pm
Recently, more and more teachers are starting to use Quest and text adventure games with their classes. Some teachers have used text-based games to inspire children to read; others use it as an introd...
How am I doing? The Quest “Annual Review” 2012/13 7 May 2013 | 03:00 pm
In April 2012 I marked a year of working on Quest full-time by conducting my own “Annual Review” (Part 1, Part 2). Well, er, 13 months have elapsed since then, which makes it the perfect time to do it...
