Collecting as many responses to Esther’s, our IFComp 2022 entry, as I can find.
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Building Esther’s Cafe
This year Alleson and I submitted a short story called Esther’s to the 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition. We placed 17th, which is great!
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IFComp 2022
The 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition is now open, and for the first time I’ve submitted a game! Esther’s is a short Twine game that Alleson and I built over the last month. There are 71 games in the competition this year, but you only have to play five of them to submit ratings as…
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Marginalia August 2022
What’s on my mind and what I found interesting of late. I went six weeks without working a 5-day week. Between holidays, camping, and a wedding it’s been long weekends all summer. While it’s lovely, I have to admit that it’s affecting my work more than I anticipated. It turns out there’s a fixed overhead…
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Marginalia July 2022
I realized the other day that my favorite form of content discovery is other people’s curated newsletters. I’ve mostly ditched big social media in favor of news sites like NPR and aggregators like Hacker News, but they’re still designed to keep me coming back pulling for new updates. I much prefer Emily Short’s regular Link…
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