Previously, at our house So my girlfriend and I are watching Last Chance to See when she spots something moving across the room. It’s a mouse. Not a gerbil; Erich, Dotty, Elvis and Snoopy are tucked up safely in their hutches. This is a wild, rough-looking, street-wise mouse. A mouse what is keeping it real, [...]
Neil Ayres, co-blogger of Aliya Whiteley, writer in his own write, and all-round nice chap, is marking the arrival of the Kindle on these shores, and taking advantage of Sony’s recent tie-up with Smashwords. He’s brought together some previously published short stories (including Before Midnight, the flash piece I podcasted here) and released them as [...]
Today’s Guardian Review contains an essay by the journalist Jenny Turner about the upcoming publication anniversary of the
Craig Smith, author of the free Frotz Z-machine interpreter for iPhone and iPod Touch, is interviewed by Cult of Mac. These games were primarily text-based, with you solving puzzles via verb-noun parsers. As time went on, adventures gradually became increasingly complex and elaborate, with Infocom arguably leading the genre to its height. ► Craig Smith [...]