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		<title>IFComp09 Review: Condemned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
There are major spoilers in the following review; consider yourself forewarned.
(Game: Condemned &#124; Author: A Delusioned Teenager)
I played this game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFComp09 Review: Broken Legs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
There are major spoilers in the following review; consider yourself forewarned.
Broken Legs by Sarah Morayati is the sordid tale of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFComp09 Review: Gleaming the Verb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
Gleaming the Verb, by Kevin Jackson-Mead, is a word puzzle with an interactive fiction framework. I think it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFComp09 Review: Beta Tester</title>
		<link>http://twoswallows.com/interactive-fiction/2009/10/ifcomp09-review-beta-tester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that&#8217;s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I&#8217;m doing the latter.
(I had intended to play all the games in the competition, but after playing a couple, decided to copy Emily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaceship! Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Spaceship! is a group-generated text adventure from the readers of The Grauniad The Guardian&#8217;s Games blog. It&#8217;s also on the IFDB here.
The premise is pretty straightforward: you (the Captain) are stuck on your (broken) spaceship and must jump through several (puzzle-adorned) hoops to get it working again. The tone of the writing is wry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive fiction overview 2: Community and Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I omitted several key items in my last post. One is the online community for IF, which includes self-regulated competitions, and the other is the rather massive topic of how to start writing your own IF.
Community
I think the most heavily populated community area has to be the Usenet newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction, both of which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive fiction: an overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is by no means a complete collection of all things IF, but it contains the sites and resources that I&#8217;ve found most useful.
Getting started

Brass Lantern&#8217;s extensive Beginner Resources page. Includes an introduction, how to play guides, and more.
SPAG&#8217;s play instructions

History

A short history of interactive fiction from Chapter 8 of the Inform Designer&#8217;s Manual, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titles and origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In naming this blog (which for some time ran the risk of being called Title Goes Here) I have drawn on the grand tradition of Using Phrases From Old Text Adventure Games (if you can call it a grand tradition, which I&#8217;m not at all sure you can, seeing as how I now can&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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