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A Bird Story: Wordless Wonder
Very few games have truly mastered their form of storytelling. There are, of course, a few notable exceptions, but this young artform has yet to reach its maturity and many creators are afraid to...
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CleverPoetry
Cleverbot. I am sure you’ve heard of the little robot that is supposedly smarter than the average human. When you think of clever, you think of analytical, you think of the mathematical left side of...
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“Up Against The Screen!”: When E-Poetry Gets Aggressive
One of the most unique aspects of electronic literature is the versatility of it’s essence. Like many other art forms, such as poetry, painting, fiction/non-fiction creative writing, and many other,...
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Shall I tell you about the Stars?
Sharif Ezzat’s collection of anecdotal poems titled “Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky” has already been presented twice on this blog, but I believe it deserves an even closer look than those presented...
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The Secret About “Public Secrets”
I was looking for a good e-literature work that I haven’t done a blog about before, so I went onto the e-lit (ELO) collection volume 2 and chose a random work. I thought “ooh, this one is about...
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“Cannibal Dreams”: Science Made Poetry
“Cannibal Dreams: Anatomy Study No. 1” uses a block of text from a Biology textbook and hidden hypertext links to create a melancholy poetic piece. It was written by poet Lucy Cunningham and programmer...
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HUMANITY OVERCOME: MANKIND’S NUMBERS HAVE DECLINED.
Everybody wants to rule the world, or in this case, they want their disease to completely wipe out the human race. Do you remember the movie Contagion? Pandemic 2 is very similar, except there’s no...
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Blurred: Multimedia Literature
Pry by Samantha Gorman. Published by Tender Claws. Pry is a multimedia reading experience created by Samantha Gorman and published by Tender Claws. Pry is a short novella that combines text, touch...
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Save Me or Let me Go…The Will of E.R. Millhouse
“Living Will” by Mark C Marino is an interactive poem that names the reader executor of networking tycoon E. R. Millhouse’s will, which is the interactive poem. Millhouse is dying of a parasite...
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Google Gives Birth to Poems
Our class’ definition of electronic literature as literary work that is born digital aptly describes Sampsa Nuotia and Raisa Omaheimo’s work “Google Poetics”. Their constantly growing collection of...
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Morals, Please
Question: What do you get when you cross a need to survive with the want to be a good person? Answer: You get Papers, Please, the “dystopian document thriller” made by Lucas Pope back in 2013....
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Not just a Night in the Woods
About a month back, I started seeing many let’s play channels on YouTube playing the same game. All of the thumbnails for these videos had a simply drawn, anthropomorphic cat in them. I thought this...
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Life Is Strange…*Spoilers*
Life is Strange is an interactive storytelling game developed by Dontnod Entertainment. It revolves around the life of the main character, Max Caulfield, who is a photography student. But, the twist is...
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Near and Far
For an educational twist, there are two websites that provide an interactive exploration experience that almost reaches the level of an adventure on Ms. Frizzle’s bus! Scale of Universe allows the user...
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Casual Cat Collector
Neko Atsume. Does anyone remember? It’s that mobile game where you leave out food and furniture in hopes rare cats will show up for you to snap photos of. Strange premise, I know, but it was pretty...
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Hyper mucking
High Muck a Muck is hypertext poetry, made by Fred Wah. It is extremely well done over all. Some brief background information is that High Much a Muck is a story about hardship. It tells the stories of...
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Changing the Otome World?
On a previous post, I talked about Otome games and how they are an interesting form of electronic literature. Last year, a new type of Otome game came out called Mystic Messenger and it changed the way...
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You’ll never believe what they sent you!
Love reading outrageous stories? Yarn is a chat fiction application created by Science Mobile, LLC. This interactive fiction app allows you to read dramatic stories that build suspense and occasionally...
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The Red Room: Inkubus
“The Bedroom” “Beccy’s conversation” Inkubus is a first-person coming of age horror game. It was created in 2014 by DreamingMethods and shows the player a peak of what might actually be behind the...
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Detectiveland – The life of a private eye
This game is called Detectiveland, in it, you are the private investigator, Lanson Rose, it is your job to help solve the different cases. You talked to various suspects and different clients with...
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