Role-playing isn’t all about the DM, it’s about the whole group and the amazing stories they tell together. By leveraging improvisation, players can learn how to better build each other up, support the group, succeed together, and fail together. Our gang of intrepid improvisational adventurers/gaming veterans return with a final installment of their unpredictable quest […]
The Rebirth of Interactive Fiction
Originally published in the BFS Journal #14, Jul 2015 – British Fantasy Society Text-based adventures were some of our first early videogames to use progression or creation of a narrative as the main method of play. These games first appeared in the 1970s, then became incredibly popular in the 1980s due to their simplicity to create and power. […]
Twitterature: A Challenge
In August I challenged myself to post one piece of Twitterature up a week, inspired by friend and author Liss Macklin, her being the one who initially switched me on to the microfiction. Some of you may be asking “What on earth is ‘twitterature’?” well, Wikipedia calls it: Twitterature (a portmanteau of Twitter and literature) is literary use of the microblogging service of Twitter. It includes […]