Watch Out for Fireballs! 123: Interactive Fiction
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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🗓️ 10 March 2016
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
gary butterfield and kole ross, interactive fiction_
Two men speak into microphones about interactive fiction, also known as text adventures. They cover the basics of the medium, a brief history and discuss four games in-depth: "Planetfall", "A Mind Forever Voyaging", "Slouching Towards Bedlam", and "The King of Shreds and Patches."
LINKS OF NOTE:
[The Special Special Special](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5E1vx961o)
[Get Lamp](www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15itQ_EhRo)
[11/22/63](112263book.com/)
[The Descent](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhZj0Q9rq9E)
[Parsley](www.memento-mori.com/parsely/)
[Cruelty Scale](www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cruelty_scale)
[Yeats Second Coming](www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html)
[Gateway](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(video_game))
[80 Days](www.inklestudios.com/80days/)
[Planetfall](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall)
[A Mind Forever Voyaging](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging)
[Slouching Towards Bedlam](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bedlam)
[King of Shreds of Patches](maher.filfre.net/King/)
[Device 6](simogo.com/work/device-6/)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This very special episode of Watch Out Fireballs is brought to you by our patrons at |
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| 0:29.0 | Thank you. The Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you, Oh, The My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to a very special watch out for Fireballs survey course 101 episode as we do |
| 1:38.1 | A very special special yes the special special not to be confused with Maria Bamford special. |
| 1:44.0 | This is an episode about interactive fiction. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, this is our episode where we talk about something that is also known as text adventures. |
| 1:56.0 | Yes, yeah and this is very different than you know anybody who listens to the show knows that we like |
| 2:01.2 | adventure games we like but mostly we talk about graphical |
| 2:04.4 | adventure games but this is something pretty different than that and this is |
| 2:09.0 | more related to things like twine games or game books or choose your |
| 2:12.2 | adventures or visual novels or even a little bit close to to muds even though that introduces like a |
| 2:17.4 | a multiplayer component that makes it feel real different. |
| 2:20.3 | Yeah, yeah. So they're related to those but kind of distinct from them. They're far more |
| 2:26.0 | primitive in presentation and they have a bunch of commonalities between them |
| 2:30.4 | but like it all can be boiled down to games that are played in this call and response rhythm, |
| 2:36.0 | where a senior scenario is described to you, and then you respond by inputting simple sentences into a text parser. |
| 2:43.7 | A lot like a game of Dungeons and Dragons |
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