Final Wrap-Up for the Year!

Good Afternoon viewers,

With the continued support and influence from my Interactive Fiction class, we were given the opportunity to creatively express a research topic for our final essay submission.

This post is here to highlight the ideas surrounding the paper, as well as providing insight into the depths and origins of Interactive Fiction, itself. Over this past year, focus, for me, was specifically placed into the dissection of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One novel.

Within, you'll find an engaging story of the virtual world, and its influence on the human race. Within there are easter eggs pointing toward the early influences of InfoCom games, as well as the ideology surrounding what it means to be an Interactive Fiction piece.

The paper can be found here, and I hope you enjoy my discussion revolving around the influence of IF within various forms of media, and the engaging potential of it!

Ready Player One / The Discussion of VR and AR

Below, you're going to find a small interactive piece I created revolving around the discussion of Ernest Cline's novel, Ready Player One. Within this discussion I mention critiques of various themes presented within the story, as well as discussion revolving around similarities we see in today's society already.

I also present within this production, a small ~3 minute clip displaying a direct link the book has had an influence on today.

I hope you enjoy the VLOG.

https://youtu.be/PXNtK2FK210

Adam Cadre

To those that may not know the conventions of an IF game I definitely would not recommend giving their first experience to 9:05. It defies every aspect of an IF that you normally would take into consideration and shatters it. 

9:05 Is definitely an IF I would recommend to veteran IF players to see their reactions to the game itself. Here was mine:

InfoCom Games

Today is the beginning of an adventure I undertook after a class lecture we had had on InfoCom games. The discussion was largely based around the game Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Below is a playthrough that I had begun, the first video you'll see is a preliminary first reaction to the game, where the second video will be a farther portion of the game, where I had reached after a considerable amount of time. 

Out of most of the IF games I've come across, the experience of HGttG was quite enjoyable, frustrating because of the amount of deaths. I also couldn't save through the browser version, so every death would set me back an even greater amount of time. However, the experience was enjoyable nonetheless. I look forward to enjoying more InfoCom games. 

The Great Underground Empire!

Good evening ladies and gents, today is going to be the discussion about one of my favorite IFs I have ever played. Although, the last time I had played this game by myself, was about 6-8 years ago, so I was definitely in for a refresher. 

There are a lot of secrets surrounding the game Zork I, and many of them I have come to enjoy and be able to explore. Below is a playthrough of the beginning of the game I played. I spent about 1h30mins just cruising around and getting as many treasures as I could. 

With this speedrun, the Pt. 2 file was slightly corrupted with the audio, however this is a list of the treasures I was able to easily obtain:
1. Jeweled egg / Clockwork Canary
2. Grail
3. Leather Bag of Coins
4. Bell
5. Gold Coffin
6. Painting
7. Pot of Gold
8. Platinum Bar
9. and the Crystal Skull

I had terrible RNG when it came to the troll fight and had to 'restore' twice due to the fact that my character couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. 

However, other than that, the treasures were fairly easy to obtain as I had begun remembering the paths I used to take back in the day.

Overall the experience was fun, and I definitely recommend anyone to give the game a try. A lot of the walkthroughs online are out of date, so I can't really recommend those to you, but give it the good 'ole try and see if you can become a Master Adventurer!

ADVENTURE Playthrough (Colossal Cave Adventure)

Below are the beginning and ending parts of a playthrough I recently did of an IF game known as ADVENTURE.

Part one and Part two are below in sequential order, I apologize for the lack of sound, we will fix it for the next set of recordings!

Enjoy. 

Good Afternoon Adventurers

"The chilled kiss of the morning wind graces you as you relinquish the safety of your shelter. Already glints of sunlight begin to capture your gaze off of the falling flakes of white powder. An adventure awaits, one you must discover for yourself..."

Good afternoon to everyone!

My name is David, and realistically this blog will be an escape for me to post about interesting things that we are learning/discussing in my Interactive Fiction class. Essentially, you'll be exposed to any original creations made by myself, or you'll get to enjoy reactions of mine to various IF titles that I'd be playing through. It'll be quite the variety and I hope you enjoy!