As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
» Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period The Digital Antiquarian
After fighting the tendency for decades, I’ve finally learned to accept that I’m a bit of a conservative, if not a downright Luddite, when it comes to my interactive fiction — or my text adventures, as I still persist in calling them. Despite its name, parser-based interactive fiction doesn’t actually strike me as all that good at plot-heavy storytelling. What it does excel at is setting.
Tarot Based Narrative Generation - Anne Sullivan [PROCJAM 2018]
Mystical
I wanted to make a programming language that resembled magical circles. This is more like a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle, but I will refer to it as Mystical in this document.
The Future of Text
We are a community dedicated to working on how we can better develop text to augment our capabilities and we invite you to join us. We believe that the potential of richly interactive text to truly augment how we think & communicate is massive. Text after all, is externalized symbols we can interact with to extend our mind’s reach. Therefore text is not just a medium, it is also a tool for thought, and we are looking Beyond Visual Range.
META II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium: Revisiting Schorre’s 1962 compiler-compiler: Queue: Vol 13, No 1
Some people do living history -- reviving older skills and material culture by reenacting Waterloo or knapping flint knives. One pleasant rainy weekend in 2012, I set my sights a little more recently and settled in for a little meditative retro-computing,...
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.
Fundamentals of Interactivity | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford
Inform: A Language for Interactive Fiction | Hacker News
Good stuff. More generally, if you want a short (<1hr) and amusing example of IF, try this: http://pr-if.org/play/violet/
blackout poetry generator
Turns any web page into a work of procedurally generated blackout poetry!
Inkbase: Programmable Ink
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
Script Wizards
A TTRPG and software studio. Small tools for running games, and a zine for hackers who play them.
ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games
Everything from Rogue to the Binding of Isaac.
