{"id":167,"date":"2007-10-09T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T12:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-09-26T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T18:05:52","slug":"lovecraftian-interactive-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraftian Interactive Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illuminatedlantern.com\/if\/games\/lovecraft\/\">The Commonplace Book Project<\/a> is devoted to creating interactive adventures based on the unfinished story ideas that H.P. Lovecraft collected in his &#8220;Commonplace Book&#8221;.  They&#8217;re free for download in exchange for user feedback.<\/p>\n<p>For you whippersnappers who are unfamiliar with the concept of interactive adventures, here&#8217;s a  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interactive_fiction\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> to help fill you in.  Kids today, with your fancy-schmancy <em>graphics<\/em> and your abundance of CPU cycles.  In my day, all we had were a brass lantern and an Elvish sword, and we couldn&#8217;t even <em>see<\/em> them.<\/p>\n<p>Uh, heh.  Anyway, Lovecraft.  Another excellent example of this type of horror interactive fiction is Infocom&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/free-game-downloads.mosw.com\/abandonware\/pc\/adventure\/games_k_l\/lurking_horror_the.html\">The Lurking Horror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of interactive fiction games is that the text-based play looks entirely innocuous when glanced at by, say, your boss.  Try doing <EM>that<\/EM> with Halo 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonplace Book Project is devoted to creating interactive adventures based on the unfinished story ideas that H.P. Lovecraft collected in his &#8220;Commonplace Book&#8221;. They&#8217;re free for download in exchange for user feedback. For you whippersnappers who are unfamiliar with the concept of interactive adventures, here&#8217;s a Wikipedia entry to help fill you in. Kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}