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The Future of IF

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Hello and welcome back. In this post, I wanted to discuss my thoughts on IF as a whole and where I think it might go. I believe that IF is only going to grow in size and gain popularity. I can see where it can be a confusing idea at first but after that it opens up a new world of entertainment to be enjoyed. I always liked being able to make choices in games a lot and I think that is part of the reason I love the Witcher 3 so much is that my decisions create different outcomes, therefore, I become more immersed in the story because I feel like I am now part of that story. I believe IF has a strong place in videogames, especially story-driven games. As you all probably know by now I am a pretty avid gamer and connect IF to games often. I would say Telltale Games do a good job at representing interactive fiction. I believe the two best are The Walking Dead series and The Wolf Among Us. While books are still enjoyable I think in time IF will become even more popular than those as they...
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Bandersnatch

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Bandersnatch is a very interesting film and if any you are bored due to the current situation this a great film to watch that is available on Netflix. In Bandersnatch as the viewer, you follow the main protagonist Stefan however you do not just follow him but make important choices and decisions for him. I f you have never interacted with a film like this it can be strange. When you are given a choice to make you have about ten seconds to make the choice otherwise it will choose the default option. I won't mention any spoilers but I believe there are 5 main endings to this film. I think my favorite thing about this film is how you the viewer interact with the protagonist at one point and results in a very strange experience. This, however, was not my first experience with this type o film. When I was young I had watched/played a film called Scourge of Worlds and it was released in 2003. This was my first experience actually with interactive fiction but at that age,...
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Journey into the Oasis

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Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel having to do a lot with virtual reality. The story takes place in the year 2045 in which the city is a dystopia. The main protagonist is Wade Watts who's life is not that great however spends most of his time in the oasis like most of the world. Wade uses this virtual reality as an escape like many people trying get away from the troubles of the real world. The creator of the oasis Halliday planted a easter egg in the game after his death. Whoever would find and discover the easter egg would inherit control over the whole oasis. Wade like many other is trying to find this easter egg. He ends up making some friends along the way with the other first 4 people to aquire the keys that are needed in order to find the egg. There group became known as the High Five . I have seen the more recent motion picture adaptation and I have to say I was disappointed as the movie does not do this book justice. As most people would expect there ar...
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Reacting to maybe make some change

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Hello everyone, in this post I am going to be exploring a more serious and emotional piece of IF. The piece is called "maybe make some change" and was written by Aaron Reed. The story has you play as a soldier who appears to be on trial for murder. I find the story to be interesting as it tests the reader morality a lot and often had me wondering if I was the bad guy. I also found that the sound and images running in the background to be a nice touch and added a sense of immersion to the story. maybe make some change 1 When I first started after the initial black screen it had shoot and some blank spaces on the left of the screen. Right now like the story told me I only knew how to shoot but the key to progressing is to learn what else I was able to do beside shoot. I learned how to calm, warn, threaten, hug, hear, and miss. At this point I figured out that I need to connect the words on the left side of the screen with the words h...
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Reaction to 9:05

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For this post I will be explaining my reaction to a specific work of IF. The piece is called 9:05 by Adam Cadre. Before I get into any details I just want warn you that there are major  spoilers  for the story ahead and if you have not heard of 9:05 I recommend you go try it out for yourself then comeback and share your experience in the comments. Episode 1 In this first episode I had no idea what was going on but it seemed like the PC you play has just woken up late for work and it is still a somewhat normal scenario. I followed a morning routine like showering, getting dressed, and having breakfast. Next I left to go to my job and when I got in the building I stopped by the office and apparently the people had no idea who I was and turns out I murdered the person who was suppose to be working and the body was stuffed under the bed. Episode 2 So my second clip is an entirely different play through seeing as my last one ended up with me going to prison for life. The fir...
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Journey Into Space

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Greetings adventurers! Last time I talked about Info com and played a game Leather Goddesses of Phobos which was science fiction. In this post I am going to continue with these space adventures by playing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The story was written by Douglas Adams. In the story you play as Arthur Dent and you travel and explore with your friend Ford and eventually make it into space. Ford for me is a curious character as I do not know much about him. I looked into the character Ford and found that the Hitchhikers Fandom gave some info without spoiling anything which was nice. The story can prove to be quite difficult as there are many opportunities where you can miss important items and sometimes even die. Episode 1 In this 1st episode it was not too hard to progress although I did have to restart 1 time as I died once in the beginning. I was surprised that I died to the bulldozer when I tried to follow Ford and realized I had wait for Ford to interfere. By t...
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Infocom and other works of IF

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In this post I will be discussing the company Infocom and another work of IF that I have interacted with. To start Infocom was one of the earliest video game companies created. The company started in 1979. Infocom games were text adventures where the player would use a parser to type in actions and other interactions. The infamous text adventure game Zork was created by Infocom. The company later on was bought by Activision in 1989 for $7.5 million dollars. Activision still used the Zork brand after the takeover for some titles. So Infocom is a one of the main reasons we have all of these great works of IF. Speaking of IF works, the one I played around with recently was Leather Goddesses of Phobos. As usual I have no idea what is going on at the start and have only become more confused while playing it, however I am intrigued at what is going on. Leather Goddesses of Phobos 1 In the first episode I was still getting my bearings and had no idea what my PC was getti...
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