Other people that talk about games, stories, etc.
George Oliver
Here are a few of them -- if you have some to share I'd be into seeing
them.
1. The TIGSource forums -- some nice and fun people talking about
indie games, mainly casual, platformer, and shoot-em-up games but some
adventure and IF as well. There's also a tigsource main page.
2. PlayThisThing - profile around 5 games a week. Wide range of games
including IF -- a sort of offshoot of Greg Costikyan's Manifesto Games
site. This is just a really nice site
3. AdventureDevelopers - mostly graphical adventure games but still
many good articles and discussions.
http://www.adventuredevelopers.com/index.php
4. Great Games Experiment - wide variety and huge number of games;
you'll even find some IF here (like needles in a haystack), but a cool
community site regardless.
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/
5. Planet Ogre Cave - a feed aggregator of many design journals and
blogs, mostly related to RPGs, but a really good source of design and
content ideas.
http://planet-sg.ogrecave.com/
There are other electronic literature sites I've been reading for a
while including:
6. Writer Response Theory - text arts, digital literature.
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress
7. if:book - electronic books and publishing.
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/
8. TeleRead - ebooks and ebook devices.
I'd love to see some good fiction sites -- mostly I stck to small
genre and zine sites. Anyone know of some good fiction and prose sites
and/or forums?
Dutchy (Rhian)
It's a nice list to start with.
> I'd love to see some good fiction sites -- mostly I stck to small
> genre and zine sites. Anyone know of some good fiction and prose sites
> and/or forums?
Maybe you could visit (and perhaps others too):
http://eastoftheweb.com/
The have 2 sections at the moment: Short stories (some aren't that
short actually) and games (no IF yet).
There is a link on the first page called 'interactive' and when
checked you'll see they call for some form of IF (in the broadest
sense of the meaning). I know that particular page has been there for
quite a while, perhaps 6 moths or more, so I don't know what they
intend to do.
Rhian
George Oliver
>
> Maybe you could visit (and perhaps others too):http://eastoftheweb.com/
>
hey Rhian, that's a pretty cool site!
It also brings home the idea that it would be great to have a fast
Flash player for IF, or even some way to include a Flash player with
the game source -- I don't mean bundle, but more like compile it with
the player included. That would make it easy for people to submit
games to sites like this.
I've seen Flash-based IF where the game and the player were written in
the same source, but never a separate IF source merged with a Flash
front-end -- anyone have ideas on this?
lilb...@yahoo.com
> Recently I happened upon some cool game sites, gameforums, and so on.
> Here are a few of them -- if you have some to share I'd be into seeing
> them.
>
> indie games, mainly casual, platformer, and shoot-em-up games but some
> adventure and IF as well. There's also a tigsource main page.
>
> http://forums.tigsource.com/
>
> 2. PlayThisThing - profile around 5 games a week. Wide range of games
> including IF -- a sort of offshoot of Greg Costikyan's Manifesto Games
> site. This is just a really nice site
>
> http://playthisthing.com/
>
> 3. AdventureDevelopers - mostly graphical adventure games but still
> many good articles and discussions.
>
> http://www.adventuredevelopers.com/index.php
>
> 4. Great Games Experiment - wide variety and huge number of games;
> you'll even find some IF here (like needles in a haystack), but a cool
> community site regardless.
>
> http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/
>
> 5. Planet Ogre Cave - a feed aggregator of many design journals and
> blogs, mostly related to RPGs, but a really good source of design and
> content ideas.
>
> http://planet-sg.ogrecave.com/
>
> There are other electronic literature sites I've been reading for a
> while including:
>
> 6. Writer Response Theory - text arts, digital literature.
>
> http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress
>
> 7. if:book - electronic books and publishing.
>
> http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/
>
>
> http://www.teleread.org/blog
>
> I'd love to see some good fiction sites -- mostly I stck to small
> genre and zine sites. Anyone know of some good fiction and prose sites
> and/orforums?
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