Comments on: Interview on Whitedust http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/952 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Simon Pole http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/952/comment-page-1#comment-3460 Simon Pole Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:00:33 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=952#comment-3460 >I think the kind of personality who can write a story/world where they have to anticipate every possible thing a reader would want to know about is a fascinating personality type.< This reminds me of the only text adventure I ever solved -- Planetfall, by Meretzky. When I inadvertently discovered there were footnotes in the game, I started to systematically read them one after another. At about the 11th or 12th footnote, I was greeted with the message: "Isn't it fun to read all the footnotes?" I still remember that, along with the joy of solving the game, and the hilarious characterization of the robot sidekick Floyd. (You suddenly felt worse whenever he came in the room). >I think the kind of personality who can write a story/world where they have to anticipate every possible thing a reader would want to know about is a fascinating personality type.<

This reminds me of the only text adventure I ever solved — Planetfall, by Meretzky.

When I inadvertently discovered there were footnotes in the game, I started to systematically read them one after another. At about the 11th or 12th footnote, I was greeted with the message: “Isn’t it fun to read all the footnotes?”

I still remember that, along with the joy of solving the game, and the hilarious characterization of the robot sidekick Floyd. (You suddenly felt worse whenever he came in the room).

]]> By: Krisjohn http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/952/comment-page-1#comment-3459 Krisjohn Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:33 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=952#comment-3459 "copy write"? “copy write”?

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