IF Theory Reader
By: edited by Kevin Jackson-Mead and J. Robinson Wheeler
Edition: Version 2
Published: 2011-04-02
Language: eng
Format: Paperback Perfect Bound
Number of pages: 438
Other titles: Crimes Against Mimesis, Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction, "Characterizing, If Not Defining, Interactive Fiction", "not that you may remember time: Interactive Fiction, Stream-of-Consciousness Writing, and Free Will", 2 Brief Dada Angels, Object Relations, IF as Argument, The Success of Genre in Interactive Fiction, Parser at the Threshold: Lovecraftian Horror in Interactive Fiction, Distinguishing Between Game Design and Analysis: One View, "Natural Language, Semantic Analysis, and Interactive Fiction", Afterword: Five Years Later, Challenges of a Broad Geography, Thinking Into the Box: On the Use and Deployment of Puzzles, PC Personality and Motivations, Landscape and Character in IF, Hint Development for IF, Descriptions Constructed, Mapping the Tale: Scene Description in IF, Repetition of Text in Interactive Fiction, NPC Dialogue Writing, NPC Conversation Systems, 10 Years of IF: 1994–2004, The Evolution of Short Works: From Sprawling Cave Crawls to Tiny Experiments, History of Italian IF, Racontons une histoire ensemble: History and Characteristics of French IF
Notes: Version 2 has “minor typo and formatting corrections and a new footnote in the French article”.