interactive fiction

**Who You will Hear**

Guest: John Rodzvilla (Professor in digital publishing at Emerson College)

Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Services Delivery Manager at Klopotek)

Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek)

In the first episode for 2022, prof. John Rodzvilla joins us to discuss digital storytelling, fiction apps, gamification, and how all of these are impacting the publishing world. Digital storytelling and fiction apps have grown considerably over recent years in many forms. John interprets some of the major representatives in the world, such as Tapas, Hooked, Wattpad, Swoon Reads, and Choices, Episodes. He also explains the evolution of how we read, create, purchase, and stay connected is changing how writers think about content creation and how they engage with readers and users. In the end, John shares his projection on gamification, education, and how a new publishing model is about to be created by the future generation of publishers.

Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.  For more information about the Klopotek software solution and technology innovations & events from Klopotek, please write to info@klopotek.com.

Matthew Seiji Burns is a writer, director, composer, and game designer. With the help of Zachtronics game studio, he created Eliza a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it.

Prior to Eliza, Burns worked on a variety of games. He’s the creator of the interactive fiction projects Apology Simulator, The Writer Will Do Something, and The Arboretum. He’s also worked with Zachtronics to write and compose for titles such as EXAPunks, Opus Magnum, and more.

Burns has also worked as a producer at Treyarch, Bungie, and 343 Industries on titles such as Halo 3 & Halo ODST.

We talk with burns about our complicated, sometimes worrying, relationship to computers and why he's attracted to interactive novels. 

Hosted by Phillip Russell and Ben Thorp

Check out Matthew's website here.

Learn more about Eliza here.

Try out this recreation of Eliza chatbot here.

Visit our website: Originstory.show

Follow us on Twitter @originstory_

Do you have feedback or questions for us? Email us theoriginstorypod@gmail.com

Cover art and website design by Melody Hirsch

Origin Story original score by Ryan Hopper 

Visit the show's web page: thesearch.space

Show notes

Chris Martens' academic website
https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/people/crmarten

04:30
"Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic", Chris' Ph.D. thesis

06:10
James Meehan’s, Tale-Spin thesis
"The Metanovel: Writing Stories by Computer"

A great post about the story of Tale-Spin's creation:
https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2006/09/13/the-story-of-meehans-tale-spin/

18:40
The Twelf Project

The dependently typed logif LF

20:50
Linear logic

Jean-Yves Girard

The original paper
(The first sentence begins: "Linear logic is a logic behind logic...")

22:00
"A form of logical implication pronounced A lolly B" ... I wish I had a screen to draw on"
Looks like this:  A -o B  (a modified arrow from A to B)

25:10
The frame problem

25:20
Temporal logic
Event calculus

26:50
Pandemic board game

https://www.leacock.com/about

44:40
Interactive fiction

https://www.ifarchive.org/

47:30
Behavior trees

56:00
R. Michael Young

57:30
https://twitter.com/chrisamaphone
github.com/chrisamaphone

Freelancing! Blessing or curse? Today Laura (writer and editor of such games as Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Frog Fractions 2, Swan Hill, You Got This, Brutadon!, The Brigand’s Story, and more, and is currently an editor at Riot Games.) and Cat (writer and narrative designer of video games and narrative fiction, who's worked on titles such as Invasion, Pathologic 2, What Isn't Saved (Will Be Lost), Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, and the forthcoming Leader of the Pack) join us to talk about that independent life with topics like how to find work, what to look for in contracts, rates, renegotiating, the importance of maintaining a social media presence, whether you should go to festivals, why you maybe shouldn't go to the Write Zone at GDC, and non-freelancer stuff like how to match another writer's voice, reflective choices and how to make strong ones, how to give a player the feeling that their decisions have an impact on a story (especially when the story isn't actually changing at all), writing mistakes, the importance of editing, getting feedback, and I dunno, a few more things.

Our Guests on the Internet

Laura's Twitter and Website

Cat's Twitter and Website

Stuff We Talked About

The parser game scene from the Tom Hanks movie Big

Slug-In-Hand Tavern Twitter Bot

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain Videogames Guidelines

DoContract

Game Writers Facebook Group

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

Successful Reflective Choices in Interactive Narrative by Cat Manning

Planescape Torment

With Those We Love Alive

Invasion

Sub-Q

American Vandal

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

On the ship:
The Jeff wonders how he'll ever complete his mission, especially without a log of his adventures.

Transmissions:

1. Snake Gameshow
   
2. Journey to the Surface of the Earth
   
3. Round Pizza
   
4. Lebling and Blank's Radio Circus
   
   Book of Z-Rob: Humans
   

New Decks:
Deck 75 - Venetian Deck

Join us on internet: frequency.earth
For a good time, tweet us: @frequencyearth

Starring:
G. Maximilian Zarou as The Jeff, Nicola Clarke as the Ship's Computer, and Rob Schultz as Sheldon.

Featuring:
Dan Waters, Nick Mandernach, Jonny Svarzbein, Erin McGathy, Jack Allison, Ben Boodman, Morgan Walsh, Peter Dirksen, John Kirk, Sasha Huff, Gabriel Diani, Kenny Beck, Russell Anderson, and Tim Greer.

Z-Rob by Z-Rob.
Original music by Darius Holbert.

Produced by Russell August Anderson.

Written & Directed by Rob Schultz.

This show, like so much of Creation, is Not Art.

Frequency Earth: Ship's Log was originally broadcast as Better Radio, episode 6, on Dec 20, 2010.

NPCs! VR! AR! Rob (game writer, narrative designer, voice director, and writer on Wonderbook, Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and The Assembly) and Emily (game designer specializing in interactive narrative, dialogue, and social interaction modeling, and writer of Galatea, First Draft of the Revolution, Alabaster, Counterfeit Monkey, and more) are here to talk about the importance of streamlining the implementation of your script, looting silos of information and the problem of them not being widely accessible, the value of knowing programming, the storytelling possibilities of VR and who you “are,” disempowered experiences in VR, interactive theater’s influence on games, different solutions for offering branching narratives to players, writing for augmented reality, and the lack of games about maintaining relationships.

Our Guests on the Internet

Rob's Twitter and Website.

Emily's Twitter and Website.

Stuff We Talked About

Punchdrunk

Sleep No More

Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures by Emily Short

Firewatch

Wonderbook: Book of Spells

Love Stories for High-XP Characters by Emily Short

The Novelist

In Your Arms Tonight

VideoBrains Youtube Channel

Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

We had the brilliant and lovely @mossdogmusic on, where we talked about Interactive Fiction, N.K Jemisin, writing, indie game dev and more!

We’re part of the Geeked.fm network along with Geeks in Sneaks, Chromatic Life and More than Bits. We have tees, and other items in the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop. We’re splitting the profits 50/50 with Chachibobinks. We’ve got a blog to compliment the show! Follow us at outoftokenscast.wordpress.com If you have questions, compliments, hate mail feel free to drop a note there as well.

Question: for Carolyn

@MightyGregDoge: How did she first get to know and collaborate with @inurashii ?

What we’re playing/reading:

Carolyn: Dream Quest, Rock Band 4, Undertale (just starting), and (reading) just finished the first three books in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series

Tanya: Minecraft Story Mode (Telltale)

David R: Star Wars: Uprising

Where to find our guest online

Twitter: @mossdogmusic
sibylmoon.com
Support Carolyn on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sibylmoon?ty=h

Where to find your hosts online:

Tanya D. - @cypheroftyr // @INeedDivGms

Twitch: twitch.tv/cypheroftyr // twitch.tv/INeedDivGames

Patreon: patreon.com/INeedDiverseGames // Personal Patreon: patreon.com/cypheroftyr

David L. Reeves - @RedConversation

Twitch: twitch.tv/red_conversation

Patreon: patreon.com/redconversation

Shownotes: http://spielend-programmieren.at/de:podcast:biertaucher:2012:056
Horst JENS und Gregor PRIDUN trinken Bier und plaudern über freie Software sowie andere Nerd-Themen.

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