Today's Topic: Spatial Texts: Interactive Fiction 1.0

Readings:

Aarseth, 97-128;
Play Crowther and Wood’s Adventure online,
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/adventure/index.html.

Extension

As noted in class today, I'm offering an extension on the HTML assignment: it will be due by 11:59 PM, Friday, March 5 (actually midnight's fine, but it would be confusing to say "midnight Friday" so 11:59 PM it is).

To submit the assignment, please send me an email with the following:

• Your full name
• The URL of your project (test it to make sure it's correct and working!)
• The email address to which you'd like comments (and your grade) sent

We'll have half the class for workshop on Wed.--bring your questions.

Discussion Question: Marc Blank's Deadline

If you'd like to try Marc Blank's Deadline, which is discussed by Aarseth as a representative Infocom game, there's an excerpt online here. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way to find it.

The whole review is well worth reading.