Titans of Text

Join the Titans as we bring on Sean from Materia Magica to talk about its history and future.

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Special Guest: Sean.

Jason McIntosh and Jacqueline Ashwell join the Titans to talk about the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, IFComp, Narrascope and everything else Interactive Fiction.

Find more about the IFTF online at https://iftechfoundation.org/

Special Guests: Jacqueline Ashwell and Jason McIntosh.

Links:

• IFTF FAQ
• IFTF Programs
• IFTF Accessibility Testing Report
• The Interactive Fiction Competition — An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
• Cragne Manor — Cragne Manor is a text adventure commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead. It's also a huge, ridiculous experimental collaboration.
• IntroComp — IntroComp is an annual competition where participants develop excerpts of interactive fiction, gain feedback from audience reactions, and use this feedback to release a fantastic final product.
• NarraScope — NarraScope is a new games conference that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.
• Interactive Fiction Community Forum
• IFDB — The Interactive Fiction Database is an IF game catalog and recommendation engine.
• The Short Game — The Short Game is a podcast celebration of video game storytelling and craft, in video games you’ll actually finish.
• Club Floyd — Each week a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.
• Spring Thing 2020 — Spring Thing is an annual online festival celebrating new interactive fiction from all kinds of people.

Join us to chat with Steve Meretzky, a true titan of text adventures.

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Special Guest: Steve Meretzky.

Links:

• Interview for GitHub ZIL Release

We go in depth on IRE's gothic mud Aetolia and even get some tidbits about IRE's inner workings from lead producer Adam.

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Special Guest: Adam.

Links:

• Aetolia - Mining Overview — All about aetolia's new farming/mining features.

Join Thibaud, owner and maintainer of Written Realms, and Addison one of the NaMuBuMo participants as we discuss NaMuBuMo and Written Realms.

Special Guests: Addison and Thibaud.

Links:

• Written Realms — Written Realms, create your own text world!
• NaMuBuMo — The National MUD Building Month!
• Watch Written Realms Streamed Live — Thibaud streams Written Realms twice a week.
• Addison's The Hallowed Outcasts — Play Addisons NaMuBuMo entry!

Having just celebrated its 25th anniversary, Carrion Fields' own god of loss Rahsael joins the Titans to discuss the things that make it unique.

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Special Guest: Rahsael.

Join us for a truly titanic episode as Dr. Richard Bartle, one of the fathers of not just muds but all online multiplayer games, comes on the podcast to talk about cars, old cinema but mostly MUDs!

Special Guest: Dr. Richard Bartle.

Join the Titans as we bring on Karl from DartMUD to talk about its history and future.

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Special Guest: Karl.

Links:

• Facebook Group

We take a break from our normal episodes to talk about the upcoming event NaMuBuMo.

Find more about NaMuBuMo on the website.

Join the Titans as we bring on Devon and Eric from DuneMUD to talk about it's history and future.

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Special Guests: Devon and Eric.