Announcing: Digital Games in Libraries (DGIL)!
In my last post, I shared some pilot research that I recently published on issues and challenges that academic libraries are facing in developing digital game collections. I alluded that […]
Collecting Digital Games in Libraries
In a couple previous posts, I’ve talked about how libraries continue to circulate electronic literature on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other physical media. There are challenges to this — hardware […]
Building interiority through choices
I played Noblesse Oblige by Harris Powell-Smith a while back. It’s a really cool game in the Crème de la Crème universe, which I’ve written about before — I’m a […]
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 […]