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37 – Buckles – Interactive Fiction

Game Studies Study Buddies

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I Wish I Was Going to Do That

In high school, I was chosen to be to read out Macbeth's lines when we did our live readings of the scenes and I did them all in an Elmer Fudd voice. But that's the different paths our lives took. Homestuck connects to interactive fiction because it is explicitly pushing forward the complexity of puzzles in IF into the aesthetic realm. In Adventure, this is expressed as a fascination with intricate and complicated puzzles but there is nothing to hinder this fascination from extending to aesthetic qualities as well.

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