The ceremony is over, and the awards for best interactive fiction of 2006 have been handed out. See who won what, and what funny things you missed if you didn't attend the awards ceremony.
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Text adventures, also known as interactive fiction, can be as fun to write as they are to play. We'll get you started on writing one using Inform 7, a new programming language designed to be easy to use.
Online Caroline: make a new online friend with the Webcam & email drama from XPT and Freeserve. Give Caroline a few minutes every day, develop a weird and entertaining new friendship, become enmeshed in an interactive fiction about giving & taking, tomatoes & aubergines, friends and lovers.
Poems that Go is a quarterly new media poetry journal that explores the intersections between images, sound, text and interactivity, and the ways kinetic relationships shape language, meaning and narrative in new media spaces.
Digital Storytelling: Dana Atchley Productions provides consulting and production services to corporations and senior level executives helping them to tell their stories by applying the emotionally rich techniques of digital storytelling Ðcalled emotional brand building. Next Exit is an interactive theatrical performance created and presented by Dana Atchley who sits on a stump next to a digital campfire and draws from a virtual suitcase of seventy stories. Next Exit is in turn humorous, touching surprising and always emotionally resonant. It is an excellent example of the impact of new technology on the ancient art of storytelling.