Lovecraft Commonplace Book Exhibit Opens

[PTN]

The Commonplace Book Project has finally reached its key date today:
the exhibit opens in Switzerland and will have a PC terminal running
the project games for visitors. The games will also remain at The
Illuminated Lantern website.

Read the full press release here:

http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if/news/an_interactive_exhibition_of_u.html

The games will be on exhibit from October through April, at which
point the exhibit may tour to other cities.

If you have played the games before, it may interest you to note that
DEAD CITIES is now available in a version that includes drawings
illustrating the action and a help bar at the bottom of the screen to
facilitate exploration in a casual setting (such as a live exhibit).
ECDYSIS has also been updated, and is now entirely playable by
clicking on text links, which was originally how the game was
conceived, but not fully realized until this version.

Enjoy,

-- Peter Nepstad
http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if

[PTN]

Photographs of the exhibit are now available online:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17019577@N08/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17313207@N06/

No picture of the computer area, however. It is set up in a quiet
niche not far from this room:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17019577@N08/1813843008/

The monitor is embedded into the wall, in a frame, with the keyboard
and mouse underneath. I have a picture of the setup, but it doesn't
look very good (as most pictures of active computer monitors look). I
may post it to my site at some point.

Best,

-- Peter

http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if/

[Eric Forgeot]

PTN wrote:
PTN wrote:

>
> Photographs of the exhibit are now available online

some of the pictures look great! I'd really like to go there (and visit
Switzerland as well).
Do you know how the public received the interactive fictions ? Are they much
played ? I'd be curious to see the setup as well, I'll look further on your
website...