Adventure & RPG

Game design

• Text games forever (14 May 2020) — plain text version
• What is an RPG to you? (14 February 2020) — plain text version
• Walking simulators and interactive fiction (24 December 2019) — plain text version

Development logs

• Musings on combat in videogames (15 April 2019) — plain text version
• Dungeon crawls and simple pleasures (3 April 2019) — plain text version
• Gamebooks and grammars (27 March 2019) — plain text version

Reviews and case studies

• Encounter-based game design (15 June 2017) — plain text version
• Eamon: between CRPGs and interactive fiction (13 April 2017) — plain text version
• Rescuing the interactive fiction parser from oblivion (25 December 2016) (13 April 2017) — plain text version
• User interfaces in text-based games (18 December 2016) — plain text version
• Interactive fiction as media tie-in (6 November 2016)
• Two story games where you are the detective (7 October 2016)
• Verb-oriented game design (5 May 2016) — plain text version
• On cross-pollination in text-based games (28 April 2016) — plain text version

• Seltani and the future of text-based virtual worlds (23 August 2013)
• 8-bit dungeon crawling (7 July 2013)
• More about Javascript roguelikes (3 June 2013)
• Retro RPGs in HTML5 (6 May 2013)
• What porting can teach you (27 February 2012)
• Adventures in Interactive Fiction (20 February 2012)
• Three unusual roguelikes (31 October 2011)
• The makings of an RPG rule system (12 September 2011)
• Two Javascript roguelikes (25 July 2011)
• Gamebooks, interactive fiction and hypertext (24 June 2011)
• A review of Echo Bazaar beta (22 February 2011) — nowadays better known as Fallen London.
• Pen, paper and many-sided dice (29 November 2010)
• When MMOs fall flat (19 September 2010)
• A tale of two MMORPGs (8 September 2010)

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