Category Archives: media

Slinging Bullshit

Posted on September 3, 2022 by midiguru

Tonight on Facebook one of my friends posted some images of a thread about how a Harry Potter game has some implied anti-Jewish bigotry in it. I haven’t seen the game, but the description made it seem pretty bad. So … Continue reading →

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A Site for Sore I’s

Posted on July 22, 2020 by midiguru

An author has to have a website, right? Would anybody seriously argue with this self-evident proposition? Well, yeah, I guess I will. I love writing. I even enjoy editing. These are not the only activities I enjoy; composing music and … Continue reading →

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Got You Covered

Posted on January 12, 2019 by midiguru

I’m getting ready to do a self-published reissue of The Wall at the Edge of the World, which was published by Ace in 1993 and has been out of print for about 20 years now. Today I’m looking around for … Continue reading →

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The March of the Mundane

Posted on February 17, 2013 by midiguru

Remember bookstores? Back in the late ’70s and early ’80s I used to browse in small indie bookstores and pick up quirky but provocative books, some of which are still on my shelves. Yesterday, moved by an obscure impulse, I … Continue reading →

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Black, with Cream and Sugar

Posted on July 3, 2012 by midiguru

Non-stationary art got a big boost in 1930, When Alexander Calder invented the mobile. Now that the computer is ubiquitous, the possibilities for non-stationary art — interactive or simply involving unpredictable and non-repeating motion — are staggering. Okay, computer screens … Continue reading →

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Something New

Posted on May 30, 2012 by midiguru

Last night I took a look at a graphics programming system called Processing. It’s quite groovy. I had been dimly aware of it before, but I think I sort of rolled my eyes and muttered, “Just what I need — … Continue reading →

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Undum & Vorple, Part III

Posted on March 19, 2012 by midiguru

What will interactive storytelling look like in the 21st century? Oops, we’re already 12 years into the 21st century. And yet the main authoring systems for interactive fiction still produce stories that rely on a computer user interface that was … Continue reading →

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Undum & Vorple, Part II

Posted on March 18, 2012 by midiguru

No matter how attractive a technology may look, if it doesn’t do what you need it to do, it’s a doorstop. After looking at Undum for a couple of days, I’ve concluded that it’s a doorstop. [Edit: Probably not true.] … Continue reading →

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Undum & Vorple

Posted on March 15, 2012 by midiguru

Technologies — there are so many! How do you pick and choose what you’ll use? Last week I finished writing an interactive fiction game called “The White Bull.” This game has been entered in the 2012 Spring Thing competition, which … Continue reading →

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Sounds Good

Posted on January 14, 2012 by midiguru

There’s nothing new in the world. Everything has been done before. The idea of including music in a text adventure game may seem a bit eccentric — but of course graphic computer games have had music since the very beginning. … Continue reading →

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