The Storyteller as Parser: Interactive Fiction as Community Medium

You'd imagine that, at some point, when all things approach infinity, we'll be able to link Utah Phillips with Zork.  The former, a storyteller and a wobbly, seems at least categorically dissimilar enough from the latter, the ur-Interactive Fiction, to avoid easy, triples-formatted, linking.*  But I've stumbled on evidence to the contrary, in my constant attempts to keep up with the development of what the French refer to as le jeu incroyable: Dwarf Fortress.  I'm not sure if it can be...

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Published on August 12, 2010 13:11
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