Emily Short's guest appearances

Emily Short

Script Lock

Beyond the Filter

Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories

Justin Charity

Sarah Elmaleh

Meg Jayanth

Karla Zimonja

Brad Muir

Matthew Burns

Anna Kipnis

Tim Schafer

Frank Cifaldi

Jill Murray

Sean Vanaman

Robin Hunicke

Walt Williams

Marc Laidlaw

Liz Pelly

OwlTail

On this episode I talk to highly respected interactive fiction writer and active community member Emily Short. We talk about what exactly distinguishes interactive fiction, the different subsets of its still highly active community and how it's evolved over the years....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

On this episode I talk to highly respected interactive fiction writer and active community member Emily Short. We talk about what exactly distinguishes interactive fiction, the different subsets of its still highly active community and how it's evolved over the years....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3

Beyond The Filter 11 - On Interactive Fiction with Emily Short

Rob Morgan

NPCs! VR! AR! Rob (game writer, narrative designer, voice director, and writer on Wonderbook, Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and The Assembly)  and Emily (game designer specializing in interactive narrative, dialogue, and social interaction modeling, and writer of Galatea, First Draft of the Revolution, Alabaster, Counterfeit Monkey, and more) are here to talk about the importance of streamlining the implementation of your script, looting silos of information and the problem of them not being widely accessible, the value of knowing programming, the storytelling possibilities of VR and who you “are,” disempowered experiences in VR, interactive theater’s influence on games, different solutions for offering branching narratives to players, writing for augmented reality, and the lack of games about maintaining relationships. Our Guests on the Internet Rob's Twitter and Website. Emily's Twitter and Website. Stuff We Talked About Punchdrunk Sleep No More Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures by Emily Short Firewatch Wonderbook: Book of Spells Love Stories for High-XP Characters by Emily Short The Novelist In Your Arms Tonight VideoBrains Youtube Channel Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

NPCs! VR! AR! Rob (game writer, narrative designer, voice director, and writer on Wonderbook, Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and The Assembly) and Emily (game designer specializing in interactive narrative, dialogue, and social interaction modeling, and writer of Galatea, First Draft of the Revolution, Alabaster, Counterfeit Monkey, and more) are here to talk about the importance of streamlining the implementation of your script, looting silos of information and the problem of them not being widely accessible, the value of knowing programming, the storytelling possibilities of VR and who you “are,” disempowered experiences in VR, interactive theater’s influence on games, different solutions for offering branching narratives to players, writing for augmented reality, and the lack of games about maintaining relationships. Our Guests on the Internet Rob's <a href="https://twitter.com/aboutthislater" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.gamestory.co.uk/home/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>. Emily's <a href="https://twitter.com/emshort" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://emshort.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a>. Stuff We Talked About <a href="http://punchdrunk.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Punchdrunk</a> <a href="http://www.sleepnomore.com/#share" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sleep No More</a> <a href="https://emshort.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/beyond-branching-quality-based-and-salience-based-narrative-structures/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond Branching: Quality-Based, Salience-Based, and Waypoint Narrative Structures by Emily Short</a> <a href="http://www.firewatchgame.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firewatch</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wonderbook-Book-Spells-Playstation-3/dp/B0050SX89W" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wonderbook: Book of Spells</a> <a href="https://emshort.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/love-stories-for-high-xp-characters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Love Stories for High-XP Characters by Emily Short</a> <a href="http://www.thenovelistgame.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Novelist</a> <a href="http://www.bestonlinerpggames.com/game/1773/In-Your-Arms-Tonight.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Your Arms Tonight</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoBrainsUK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VideoBrains Youtube Channel</a> Our theme music was composed by <a href="http://2mello.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2Mello</a>, and our logo was created by <a href="https://lilynishita.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lily Nishita</a>.

Rob Morgan & Emily Short