Notes: We forgot to tell Melissa we’re PG! We bleeped a couple of words. Also, Lyle does know the Civil War and Civil Rights Movement are different things in different centuries (~minute 14); forgive her slip of the tongue. Dr Melissa Kagen of Bangor University joins us this week to…
We had a break – what did we do? What projects are we working on? We discuss our experiences over the summer, our current digital writing projects, and the state of our practice-based research. Easing into this season, when we’ll be hosting numerous guests on the podcast! Lyle’s hypernovel outline:…
In this last episode of the season, we revisit some topics to explore them further, including: digital fiction museums, locative transmedia works, publishing digital fiction, walking sims, and the future. BONUS: Blooper reel! Links mentioned in this episode: Normal Deviation Anthology (buy it now!) Lyle’s current project: Seven Sisters Unmet Electronic Literature Lab…
Why isn’t digital fiction everywhere? Part of the reason we don’t see it in stores is because it doesn’t have an established publishing stream. We look at some of the publishing efforts in the history of digital fiction in this episode. Links mentioned in this episode: Normal Deviation Anthology (buy it now!)…
We finally get to talk about our favorite topic: writing digital fiction! What are the most frequent questions we get as digital writers? How is it different from prose writing? How is it the same? Since we’re practice-based researchers in creative writing, these are just the sorts of questions we…
Our deepest apologies for the unplanned hiatus! As working academics, end-of-the-year marking and administration tasks overwhelmed us for a while. Digital media has the ability to both transcend and combine narrative forms: film, game, text, music, and more. As a result of the mutable quality of digital media and the…
Note: It appears the podcast feed wasn’t coming through to this site – sorry for the slew of updates, but didn’t want anyone to miss out on episodes! Like all things digital, digital fiction is prone to obsolescence, and we’re already losing key works. We chat about the evanescence of…
Hypertexts are one of the oldest and enduring forms of digital literature, dating from the 1st gen in 1987, to the explosion in indie games thanks to Twine. We chat about how hypertexts form the foundation of digital fiction, what role they play in culture, and we share some of…
Interactive fiction (better known as text adventure games) is the forerunner of narrative-based video games. In this episode, we discuss the origins of IF, its commercial heyday, and what contemporary IF has become. (Apologies for my voice – I’d been rather ill that week! -Lyle) Links mentioned in this…
