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Tag Archives: interactive-fiction

Three hundred mechanics, with comics on the side

Surprisingly, Three Hundred Mechanics has nothing to do with Seven Hundred Hoboes, although I see no good reason why not. It is a web site by Sean Howard listing 300 game mechanics (well, currently about 60). I like them. It’s like the ideas one occasionally has about game design, only with a neat formal twist, [...]

Posted 22 November 2007 § Fun § Game Design ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Pac-Man as interactive fiction

This is probably really old but I am not really keeping up to date with the Interactive Fiction world: Pac-Man as a text adventure. Pac-Man was a junkie, eyes oozing pus, haunted by the ghosts of those he’d killed. They called him Pac-Man because he was always packing heat, lightning-quick on the draw with a [...]

Posted 19 November 2007 § Fun § Indie ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,