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My Top 10 Comics of 2022

January 4, 2023
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I read a lot of comics this past year….a few hundred issues for a quick estimate. I started getting back into comics in the summer and fall of 2021, during […]

Descending, rendering

December 10, 2022
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I started my read-through of the Eastgate back catalog with We Descend: Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor, Volume 1 by Bill Bly, originally released in 1997 on floppy disk for […]

All the Storyspaces

September 29, 2022
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I’m excited to share a new project that I’ve been laying the groundwork for: I’m planning to read all works published by Eastgate Systems and write about each one on […]

Expressive choices

August 29, 2022
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Earlier this summer, I finished Mask of the Plague Doctor, a multiple-choice narrative game by Peter Parrish, published by Choice of Games. The game world is enthralling — a sort […]

Checking out Patchwork Girl

June 9, 2022
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m currently researching how libraries have collected and circulated literary software titles published by Eastgate. I’m still sorting through the results of the […]

Showing traces or hiding routes

May 6, 2022
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A lot of early hypertext discourse was concerned about people getting lost. Early developers and promoters of hypertext systems, especially in the pre-web period, were worried that newcomers would have […]

Walking the Road to Canterbury

April 17, 2022
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I’ve been back at work now for almost a full semester, the spring term wrapping up in just a few weeks. After quite a rough start in which my kids’ […]

Circulating Electronic Literature in Libraries

March 23, 2022
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In the last month or so, I’ve taken some initial steps on a new set of research questions: how do libraries develop, preserve, and provide access to collections of electronic […]

loose ends

January 10, 2022
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I was pretty overwhelmed by a mix of confusing emotions when this came in the mail a few weeks ago: It’s the latest issue of my favorite archives journal, Archivaria, […]

Shade Reverberates

November 7, 2021
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A short post in response to a short work: Andrew Plotkin’s Shade. This work begins in an apartment on the eve of a trip. As the player completes tasks in […]

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