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Non-Exploitable Resources: Bee and Consensual Torture Simulator
This past week, I was lucky enough to play through two excellent pieces of interactive fiction: Bee by Emily Short, and Consensual Torture Simulator by Merritt Kopas. Bee is about a young home-schooled girl studying to become the next national spelling bee champion. Through a series of hypertext choices, the reader guides how she spends […]
Varytale: Hymn and Shanty
Well written works have the capacity to evoke memory. I remember Sunday mornings, light streaming through church windows, a hymn book thick and open in my hands. Hymns were always the best part of Sunday service, when there were no questions about faith but rather a call to share. Hymn and Shanty is a work of […]
Varytale: Emily Short’s Bee
This novella-length work from Emily Short is available through the platform Varytale. Short’s writing is as evocative as ever in this lengthy work, and it really works well to demonstrate the capabilities of the platform and the medium as a whole. Bee follows the world of a young, home-schooled Spelling Bee wiz as she navigates the […]