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…
The term “digital fiction” may not be familiar to you, but the works probably are. “3rd generation” electronic literature often goes viral on social media; we enjoy it and pass it on without really thinking about what else is out there. But there’s a lot else out there! In this…
We’ve been quiet for a while here not because we’ve fallen off the Earth (it’s flat now, have you heard?), but because we’ve been spectacularly busy! We’ve got several projects on the go: the Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition, our Normal Deviation anthology, a brand new Wonderbox podcast, and more…
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I’m so happy that Astrid Ensslin, Bronwen Thomas, and Eben Muse (well, and me) are all returning to judge this year’s Opening Up competition. We had such a great experience last year, and I hope that we can top it this year with even more works of popular/mainstream-appeal digital fiction.…
New hyperstory release: “The Pyxis Memo: On Resurrecting the Free Web” (a hypertext in eBook form) As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, Wonderbox is my little experimentation baby. I’m a writer and researcher in digital fiction, and in the past couple of years I’ve been questioning more and more why…
The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski 2005 Book Autumn is finally in the air; the smell of coal fires litter the evening air where I live, the leaves are turning to rich golds and warm umbers. Either joyfully or annoyingly (depending on your opinion of the matter) everything…
500 Apocalypses by Phantom Williams 2016 Hypertext 500 Apocalypses is a fictional ‘memorial garden’ containing short entries about different worlds’ apocalypses. It’s a hypertext database, which can either be explored linearly or through using the hyperlinks to jump around the entries. No entry is entirely like another. Some are atmospheric…
17776, or What Football Will Look Like in the Future by Jon Bois 2017 Hyperfiction As a self-declared nervous-wreck, I’ve always been envious of those with faith: without the promise of an afterlife, the end of this current life and its limited time seems more daunting. Only recently did a…
Cymraeg >> Deadline for submissions: 15 Feb 2018 Announcement of winners: 31 July 2018 Submit Entries Here Entries accepted in English and Welsh. Wonderbox Publishing, in conjunction with Bangor University (Wales), is sponsoring the second annual competition to discover the best “popular” digital fiction: digital fiction that appeals to mainstream…
