Choosing to preserve
I recently played A Crown of Sorcery and Steel by Josh Labelle, a Choice of Games title that follows up on Labelle’s excellent 2020 game Tavern Crawler. Both games are […]
My Top 10 Comics of 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, […]