ENGL 376MM:
New Media Studies

A Fall 2008 course at the University of Mary Washington exploring the discourses of counter-factual world building in new media culture.

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Submitted by alison s on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 15:01. Tags:

I'm one of the five or so people in the class who, before playing Shade, had had no experience with interactive fiction. At all. As a result, the biggest problem was really figuring what I could and couldn't tell the computer to do in terms of vocabulary and form. I had the vain hope that maybe I could tell my character to karate chop the desk or set his apartment on fire. Alas, he could at least hallucinate (I also have no idea why I'm assuming the character of shade was a guy).  read more »

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