Novel writing: the text adventure
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You might be surprised how many young nerds (too young to really have played these things) get it perfectly well
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* Diana Rowland
* Greg van Eekhout
* Tim Pratt
* Margaret Ronald
* Rachel Aaron
* N. K. Jemisin
(The folks whose site that is), I know Nora, Greg, and Maggie, and they're all young. (Perhaps Tim, Diana, and Rachel are old...though I doubt it.) I may have met the others, but my memory for names is poor.
Maggie's book just came out and is brilliant; Nora got a spectacular deal for her first novel (forthcoming), and Greg has been multiply-award-nominated (don't recall if he's won any awards yet, but if he hasn't yet, he's going to).
Maggie, who is credited with writing this particular piece, is in her mid-twenties (and is about to get married, go her!)
And if anyone wants to play Zork, here ya go: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
* Diana Rowland
* Greg van Eekhout
* Tim Pratt
* Margaret Ronald
* Rachel Aaron
* N. K. Jemisin
(The folks whose site that is), I know Nora, Greg, and Maggie, and they're all young. (Perhaps Tim, Diana, and Rachel are old...though I doubt it.) I may have met the others, but my memory for names is poor.
Maggie's book just came out and is brilliant; Nora got a spectacular deal for her first novel (forthcoming), and Greg has been multiply-award-nominated (don't recall if he's won any awards yet, but if he hasn't yet, he's going to).
Maggie, who is credited with writing this particular piece, is in her mid-twenties (and is about to get married, go her!)
And if anyone wants to play Zork, here ya go: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
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So they're super-nerds!
When I was young, text-based adventure games were getting pretty old fashioned, but I still got to play a few. I'm of the Leisure Suit Larry generation.
When I was young, text-based adventure games were getting pretty old fashioned, but I still got to play a few. I'm of the Leisure Suit Larry generation.
I'm a fifteen-year-old, not really a nerd, and I get this! (From the age of text RPGs, right?)
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So funny
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I started gaming in '90 but I still tried a few rounds at text adventures. I still have this one game, The C****** Menace (can't remember the name) which came with 1000 print pages of text that you had to read based on your action on the PC.
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Diana's great (and not old). We share an editor at Bantam and her debut releases in June. I haven't read it yet, but have heard only great things.
Hey:
Imprecise.
> gag inner editor
With what?
> gag inner editor with Muse.
The Muse won't fit.
> gag inner editor with Hazy Idea for a story
The Hazy Idea for a story is too insubstantial.
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Great site!
I played these things on the Commodore 64. Hehe.
Imprecise.
> gag inner editor
With what?
> gag inner editor with Muse.
The Muse won't fit.
> gag inner editor with Hazy Idea for a story
The Hazy Idea for a story is too insubstantial.
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Great site!
I played these things on the Commodore 64. Hehe.
People who think text-based games are bad aren't just young - they're daft.
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/255 <-epic.
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/255 <-epic.
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