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Hollywood Visionary | aaronareed.net
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Hollywood Visionary is a 150,000 choice-based interactive narrative set in 1950s Hollywood and released by Choice of Games. As head of your own movie studio, you call the shots: hire Hitchcock, seduce Garbo, build your studio into an Oscar-winning powerhouse or star in a B-movie train wreck. Control everything about your production, from genre to casting to building up buzz. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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what if im the bad guy | aaronareed.net
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What if im the bad guy. What if im the bad guy is an experimental augmented reality documentary based on the stories of three US soldiers in Afghanistan and three unarmed civilians they shot and killed in early 2010. The title comes from a tattoo on the back of a whistleblower soldier, exposed in photographs documenting a beating he received for threatening to report an incident to superiors. Bad guy won the jury award for Best in Show at the 2011 UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition.
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18 Cadence | aaronareed.net
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18 Cadence was selected by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Book App of 2013. And received an Honorable Mention in the Nuovo category at the 2014 IGF Awards. It also received an Honorable Mention for the 2014 Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature. 18 Cadence is available for iPad and browsers. Bull; Play Online. Bull; Purchase for iPad. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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It Is No Secret That | aaronareed.net
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It Is No Secret That. Developed during the ‘08 election, It Is No Secret That used Python and Google APIs to extract random sentences from blog posts made in the prior 60 minutes that mentioned the words McCain or Obama. An equal number were then presented side by side on the screen. The title comes from the start of one of these sentences. The title is one of several multi-word phrases that was found prefacing both “Obama” and “McCain.”. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed.
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Publications | aaronareed.net
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Here’s an index to some of my academic papers and blog posts discussing my work in more detail. 8220;The Ensemble Engine: Next-Generation Social Physics.”. Benjamin Samuel, Aaron Reed, Paul Maddaloni, Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Foundations of Digital Games, 2015. 8220;The Eurekon: A Design Pattern in Expressive Storygames.”. With Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas. Seventh Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop, Milwaukee, 2014. Prom Week: Designing past the game/story dilemma. 8220;A...
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Shutdown/Retrovival | aaronareed.net
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A short story about the retreat of the super-rich to VR paradises and the overlooked effect of that retreat on the ones left behind,. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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Spring Thing Festival | aaronareed.net
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The Spring Thing is a long-running tradition in the parser IF community. Starting in 2014, Aaron took over organizing the event, and with the 2015 season, revamped the Thing to be a festival instead of a competition. The goal is to make it a space where people working on all kinds of text games can come together to celebrate making, releasing, and playing new stuff. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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Perfect | aaronareed.net
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Is an experiment in sculptural fiction. As the user moves two blocks around a screen, the contents of a five-sentence story change: minutely with small movements, and more broadly with large ones. The hope is to create an exploratory space where the user can find an arrangement which produces a pleasing story. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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maybe make some change | aaronareed.net
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Maybe make some change. Inform 7, Javascript/jQuery. Maybe make some change merges parser-based interactive fiction with textual and multimedia layering to produce a confrontational exploration of a true event. Inspired by the trial of Adam Winfield, a whistleblower soldier accused of murder, the piece freezes a single battlefield moment and replays it from half a dozen violently conflicting perspectives. Bull; About the Piece. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. My Inform 7 Extensions.
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Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 | aaronareed.net
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Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7. Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7. And a closing thought by Richard Bartle, inventor of the MUD. Discuss - No Comments. Comments are currently closed. Games and Playable Media at UCSC. My Inform 7 Extensions.
