- Enter the Oubliette Room Escape
Really good, spoiler free, write up of this room.
Tag: narrative
Bookmarks for November 12, 2015
- Cope « Nerdcon, authorship, and the problem with games
This is of some interest to me, almost from the point of view of my own internal monologue. I have a number of friends who are professional writers of one stripe or another, and I tend to in some sense, mentally rank myself "below" them as a creator, because what I mostly create these days is narrative games – LARP. (NB: this is *entirely* about my view, not theirs, and *entirely* about the media we work in, not us as people.) I have an internal sense that my storytelling medium is less "prope…
Bookmarks for August 25, 2010
- Cope » Every thing is a play thing
On the one hand: a nerdy deconstruction of the plot holes in the Toy Story 3 and their implications for the franchise is rather missing the point of the film, in that it's a work about emotion, and you're supposed to forgive narrative flaws if you notice them, because they're in the service of a emotional point. But I'm certain Wallis knew that when he wrote this. His broader point, though, is excellent: that all narrative is now interactive narrative, and that people will take any narrative, and find things in it the creator never intended, and invent new material in the vacant spaces of all stories, and that decrying that is pointless – we should be embracing it.
- russell davies: 5 things
I am particularly interested in the first two, and wish to remember to return to those ideas later.
- Silicon Valley's secret rock star – Fortune Tech
This isn't big news, or anything I'm going to need later, this just made me smile.