The Craft of the Adventure: Trinity Part 2

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Gold Microphone: Stories and Games

Drew Cook

11 episodes

1 week ago

Drew Cook (and sometimes cohost Callie Smith) discusses narrative games past and present with a humanities and craft writing emphasis.

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Drew Cook (and sometimes cohost Callie Smith) discusses narrative games past and present with a humanities and craft writing emphasis.

Video Games

Leisure

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The Craft of the Adventure: Trinity Part 2

Gold Microphone: Stories and Games

1 hour 6 minutes 44 seconds

1 year ago

The Craft of the Adventure: Trinity Part 2

Drew returns to discuss a foundational work of game design craft, Graham Nelson's The Craft of the Adventure (1995). This is part of a larger, multipart examination of narrative friction in Brian Moriarty's Trinity (1986).

Referenced content:

Top Expert, Drew's blog about learning Inform 7 (and other things)

Jimmy Maher's "The Neo-Classical Interactive Fiction of 1995"

Graham Nelson's The Craft of the Adventure (1995 version)

Graham Nelson's The Craft of the Adventure (2001, Designer's Manual 4)

Drew's "Zork II, Idolatry, and the Legendary Awfulness of Two Puzzles"