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 […]
Category: Digital Curation
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 […]
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 […]
Documents in Orbit of IF Works
Continuing my quest to delve deeper into interactive fiction, I’ve played through another three Infocom games: Plundered Hearts by Amy Briggs, Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Head or Tail of […]
Variability-Bringer
I continued my initiation into the IF wing of the e-lit estate by playing Wishbringer (1985) by Brian Moriarty. As a conscious attempt by Infocom to create an introductory-level game, […]
Voyaging into Interactive Fiction
I have only just recently started to engage with interactive fiction works.1 I grew up playing video games of all kinds (starting with the Sega Genesis!) and I have been […]
Research questions, defining digital curation, and thoughts on Crème de la Crème
I played Crème de la Crème (CdlC) by Hannah Powell-Smith back in December, and now that I’m rebooting my blog, I wanted to work through some notes that I took […]