Eric Brown - Interactive Fiction
Channel: Serenze Global
Date: 2020-03-16

Interactive Fiction: Getting Started Reading and Writing
Have you heard of "Zork"? Do you remember the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? Have you watched "Bandersnatch"? These are all forms of interactive fiction (IF), a topic some consider a literary form and some consider a game. Either way knowledge of it can enrich your life. This talk shows how to make use of the hundreds of free IF titles online and gives brief introductions to some of the most popular tools for reading and writing it.

Eric Brown
Software Developer
My software has been sent into space, carried up Mt. Everest, and strapped to the head of an Indy 500 driver.
I founded a Web services company in 1998 and co-founded an IoT company in 2014 which ultimately got sold. I designed the Web-based medical monitoring system used by the two U.S. Navy hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy (and was even awarded a challenge coin by the Comfort to prove it -- a rarity for a civilian). I have helped develop training programs (and content) at two different companies.

I have over 15 years experience teaching at Boston University. I've also taught seminar classes, tech courses for senior citizens, and even AP classes for high school students.

For fun, I create computer games and am one of the authors of "Cragne Manor" (a collaborative effort written by 84 authors, and the Ultima homage "Minima" (written in the extremely restrictive PICO-8 environment, this game is presently nominated for two awards).

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Links from Presentation:
https://www.ifarchive.org/
https://ifdb.tads.org/
http://www.ifwiki.org/
https://iftechfoundation.org/
https://pr-if.org/
https://feneric.itch.io/
https://shelltown.net/~eric/
https://github.com/Feneric

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