Westworld is, in many ways, a giant game. The Man in Black plays it as such, for example. The park itself is an open-ended simulation of sorts, with various narratives dynamically produced. Rather ...

Narrative-driven games is a hot trend in mobile gaming, and Gamebook chief business development officer Nico Nowarra has a few tips from the team's own experience in the interactive fiction space.

It’s 2017, and conversational interfaces (people talking with machines the same way they talk to other people) are everywhere. Siri has become a household name. Taco Bell lets you order tacos over ...

In my review of Get Lamp, the documentary about text adventures, I mentioned that the original Infocom employees believed the market for these games could exist for hundreds of years. After all, the ...

*That's an interesting set of questions if you consider AI to be feasible. Which I don't. *Of course, if people can pretend that climate change doesn't exist, they might just as easily pretend that AI ...

TaleSpinner is "a publisher and development system for original works of interactive fiction," or what many of us might call text-based adventure games (though, yes, I'm aware the categorisation is a ...

*This fake nano-fashion magazine, complete with parody ads, runway shots and model interviews, ought to beguile the fans of interactive wearables. "This Design Fiction project provided a valuable ...

Zork Classics: Interactive Fiction is a compilation of nine Infocom text adventures set in the Zork universe. Games in the compilation: – Zork I: The Great Underground Empire – Zork II: The Wizard of ...

The world is getting augmented at a fast and stunning rate. Digital displays, sensors, and touch screens are blooming all over the place from laundry machines to buses and taxi cabs. We interact with ...

The wheel of progress is changing what we think of as “new” or “old,” and users can easily scorn the sites and apps they loved only a few months ago. But for every door that technology closes, a new ...