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Inform 7 Substitutions, Substituted

Inform 7 Substitutions, Substituted

Bronies, Smashers and Others Battle Cancer

Bronies, Smashers and Others Battle Cancer

The Scene and the Planning Tree

The Scene and the Planning Tree

Argument Maps for Unscripted Conversation

Argument Maps for Unscripted Conversation

Re-using Planning Trees for Interactive Dialogue

Re-using Planning Trees for Interactive Dialogue

Before Action Videogames, There Was Pinball

Before Action Videogames, There Was Pinball

Dialogue Is The HUD

Dialogue Is The HUD

Prose Generation Techniques for Small Platforms

Prose Generation Techniques for Small Platforms

Just Added! Interactive Fiction Freeplay Room at PAX

Just Added! Interactive Fiction Freeplay Room at PAX

Irony Trumps Satire: Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker

Irony Trumps Satire: Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker

Induced Human Behaviors as a Litmus Test for Simulations

Induced Human Behaviors as a Litmus Test for Simulations

Four More Tasks for the Paragraph

Four More Tasks for the Paragraph

A Role for Could, Would, and Should in Game Input

A Role for Could, Would, and Should in Game Input

Gameplay Rules Must Feed Plot Devices

Gameplay Rules Must Feed Plot Devices

Sequels Are Better. For Now.

Sequels Are Better. For Now.

Usage of the Rules of Fiction Versus That of Games

Usage of the Rules of Fiction Versus That of Games

PAX09 Special Report: A Console Love-in

PAX09 Special Report: A Console Love-in

Interactive Interiority

Interactive Interiority

Merits of an Old Turn-Taking

Merits of an Old Turn-Taking

The Tin Idiot Manages Drama

The Tin Idiot Manages Drama

Six Choices Forbidden the Player-Protagonist

Six Choices Forbidden the Player-Protagonist

Walking, not Violence, Kills Interactive Narrative

Walking, not Violence, Kills Interactive Narrative

Drawing Out the Fencer: A Design's Evolution 2

Drawing Out the Fencer: A Design's Evolution 2

Drawing Out the Fencer: A Design's Evolution

Drawing Out the Fencer: A Design's Evolution

Street Fighter IV and the defenseless genre

Street Fighter IV and the defenseless genre

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