Brendan Allen

constantly vacillating between "god why didn't I learn BASIC and dismantle the family computer singlehandedly when I was 11" and "it is a gift of the highest order to be learning HTML for the first time in my 30s"

Review: The Deena Larsen Collection A review of The Deena Larsen Collection, an archive of physical and digital primary source materials related to electronic literature, directed by Matthew Kirschenbaum

* The Deena Larsen Collection, an archive of physical and digital primary source materials related to electronic literature, directed by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and reviewed by @elikaortega.bsky.social reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/deena-la... #ReviewsInDH

oh this is huge news for the long-ignored chunk of my brain forever encoded to Gex Memories

The frazzled hair is a great detail!

Thanks! It was my first time trying out some of the various bitsy hacks - very much a learning experience!

and of course doing all this fiddling while listening to lo-fi donkey kong ost remixes on youtube, human art across time and platforms is just so neat huh

hey thanks! it really all started from dragging one of these scans into decker on a whim and going "oh actually that looks pretty cool huh"

all the nested anachronisms are really fun: many of the catalogues I'm finding were made around the 1940s, but filled with 19th century character illustrations for the reader to order / cut out / repurpose + Decker itself as a extension and reimagining of 1990s-ish HyperCard

Just now starting to sketch out a new weird project: digitizing old toy theatre catalogues and rebuilding them in Decker with interactive elements

text generator bugs have such a particular feel. i'm currently debugging "with abroad, broad band of glass"

And a link to the Jan 29th event page directly: kmdi.utoronto.ca/emulators-ed...

Thanks Ellen! Here's a link to the event page itself, too (which I should have originally included): kmdi.utoronto.ca/emulators-ed...

The edition in question, which recreates the now-defunct Aperture Science website in Twine along with added navigational tools and annotated context: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/ap...

Next week! If you're in the Toronto area, I'll be talking about a recent critical edition of the Aperture Science promotional Portal tie-in website (co-edited by Alan Galey, @ellenforget.bsky.social, and myself) as well some of the implications for future born-digital interactive literature.

Oh this is super neat! I wish I could immediately drop everything and fiddle with this today.

it's really such an effective use of bitsy's minimalism! (both in terms of the visuals but also how you tuned/timed the text and line breaks between boxes)

Thank you! It's in really excellent company alongside your work!

I finally had a chance to sit down and play this in full -- the physicality of interacting with this piece is really phenomenal. The pressure/frustration/hope, the limits of one's capacity -- all so good.

i've been slowly playing through Game Poems 1 and this is the first one that i Unreservedly Recommend

hey! Thank you for playing, it really does mean a lot to me. I also often get the feeling of "oh hey maybe I should play this again on, like, not my lunch break" and the nice thing about game poems is that they're usually Short! (that said my own itchio "to play" list is overflowing...)

Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

my lil game poem "lessons in anatomy" is featured in the first issue of GAME POEMS, which is an incredible honor to me. it's a short meditation on pleasure, pain, sex, and the vulva (because my whole thing is games about vulvas). www.gamepoems.com/issue01

an abstract photo collage with tangerine peel, bird's wing, ink drawing of a man, old photo and other stuff. a small title sais "tropic of dinosaur"

Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!!!
It's a being walked simulator about aging made of clay, tangerine peel, sigarette ends and children's obscene drawings

Go check it out in the first issue of Game Poems magazine along with other beautiful games👇

Thank you for playing and sharing!

"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/

Game Poems #1 came out earlier this month, with a small piece of mine and truly engrossing work from my co-contributors! @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social and the Game Poems team are thoughtful editors and curators, and I'm very impressed with the care they've taken in assembling the issue.

Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

Check out the marvellous Game Poems magazine! Yes, I have a little something in there, and, yes, it lives up to the dream of publications that manage to include (and be about) interactive/games stuff!

www.gamepoems.com/issue01/

I've been excited for (and getting little peeks of) Game Poems for a little while now and now it's out for everyone to see!

"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.

i've been making a lot of wizards lately

bibliomancer

I'm not really much for posting here at the moment. Still, if you've stumbled onto this page somehow you're very welcome to play some of my games at bibliomancer.itch.io.

Screenshot of the Scholarly Editing micro-edition of ApertureScience.com. It shows editorial commentary on the left and side and a screen from the game on the right, emulating a terminal showing some text and a camera live feed.

I'm particularly proud of this pioneering digital edition of ApertureScience​.com, part of the #Portal game universe: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/ap...
Edited by Alan Galey, @ellenforget.bsky.social, and @brendanallen.bsky.social. Powered by #TEI and Twine

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