{"id":535,"date":"2009-11-18T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-11-19T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:44:28","slug":"lots-has-happened-and-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/11\/lots-has-happened-and-is-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots Has Happened and Is Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Stern’s company Stumptown Game Machine<\/b> released their Touch Pets Dogs,<\/i><\/a> published by ngmoco for the iPhone. On this social network, everyone knows that you’re a virtual dog. Versions of it are in the top 10 free apps on the iPhone App Store now, and in the top 100 of pay apps.<\/p>\n

Rover’s Day Out<\/i> is the winner of the IF Comp.<\/a><\/b> (Dogs everywhere!) The game is by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman. Broken Legs<\/i> by Sarah Morayati took second, Snowquest<\/i> by Eric Eve third. Congratulations to all authors! If you haven’t played the games yet, they’re still there<\/a> waiting for you.<\/p>\n

CYOA visualizations<\/b> are the talk of the town: Mainly this extensive site that considers many books<\/a> in the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series, but also this PDF mapping Journey under the Sea.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

People on the Interweb donated $25,000 to Jason Scott,<\/a><\/b> the textfiles.com,<\/a> BBS Documentary,<\/i><\/a> and Get Lamp<\/i><\/a> guy. Man, it’s so easy to get money on the Web.<\/a> Maybe you could do it too, if you first spend years, in your spare time and without pay, saving BBS files, saving Geocities, documenting computer history, and generally amassing a larger archive of digital media history than almost every university in the world put together.<\/p>\n

Truly “indie” artgames made the New York Times Magazine.<\/i><\/a><\/b> Jason Roherer leads the charge, but many of the usual suspects are quoted in this look at how non-industrial gaming is augmenting and challenging games of the commercial sphere.<\/p>\n

A new issue of Game Studies<\/i><\/a> is out,<\/b> with these articles: “The Character of Difference: Procedurality, Rhetoric, and Roleplaying Games,” “Moral Decision Making in Fallout,” “Cheesers, Pullers, and Glitchers: The Rhetoric of Sportsmanship and the Discourse of Online Sports Gamers,” and “World of Warcraft: Service or Space?” Game Studies<\/i> is free to everyone! No page fees for authors! Peer reviewed! The future of academic publishing, already here, and about games!<\/p>\n

JayIsGames hosts an IF contest<\/a><\/b> and calls for interactive fiction authors to create escape-the-room games. The deadline for this Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7 is January 31. Z-code only, unfortunately for those of us wedded to Curveship, but that lets you use Inform 6 or 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Stern’s company Stumptown Game Machine released their Touch Pets Dogs, published by ngmoco for the iPhone. On this social network, everyone knows that you’re a virtual dog. Versions of it are in the top 10 free apps on the iPhone App Store now, and in the top 100 of pay apps. Rover’s Day Out … <\/p>\n

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