Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time Slashdot reader Feneric writes: Cragne Manor , a 20th anniversary tribute to the classic work of horror interactive fiction Anchorhead by Michael Gentry, is now available for free public download. It was written by a collaboration of over 80 … Continue reading Massive Collaborative Text Adventure ‘Cragne Manor’ Released
What a small community of role-playing games fans can teach us about the traps of ‘political neutrality.’ Continue reading One of the Oldest Online RPG Communities Banned Pro-Trump Speech
“The first published RPG was Dungeons & Dragons, shortly followed by some other imitative games,” Greg Stafford once said. “Chaosium, however, was never content to imitate but published games that were original in style of play, content and design…. Continue reading RIP Greg Stafford, a Fundamental Personage of the RPG Industry
‘Fallout 76’ trivializes and mocks nuclear war, and honestly, that’s what I need right now. Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jokes About Nuclear War in ‘Fallout 76’
An anonymous reader writes:
The 24th annual Interactive Fiction Competition kicked off Monday, unveiling 77 new text adventures which will vie for nearly $9,000 in prize money. The contest’s organizers are encouraging people to play and rate the free g… Continue reading Two Events Celebrate Text Adventures, Roguelike Games
We like a good video game as much as the next person. Heck, a few hours wasted with “Team Fortress 2” on a couple of big monitors is a guilty pleasure we’ll never be ashamed of. But this starship bridge simulation console brings immersive gameplay to a new level, and we wholeheartedly endorse it even if we don’t quite get it.
The game in question is “Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator”, a game played by anywhere from 2 to 11 players, each of whom mans a different station on the bridge of a generic starship, from Engineering to Communications to the …read more
Continue reading Unleash Your Inner Starship Captain with this Immersive Simulator Console
Slashdot reader travers_r shares “a peek into the early days of internet culture and multiplayer gaming.” (Apparently this MOO has been running continuously for 28 years.) “From the looks of it, squatters run it now…”
LambdaMOO was different from th… Continue reading LambdaMOO, MUDs, and ‘When the Internet Was Young’
With little more than pen, paper, dice, and imagination, a group of friends can transport themselves to another plane for shenanigans involving dungeons and/or dragons. An avid fan of D&D and a budding woodworker, Imgurian [CapnJackHarkness] decided to build gaming table with an inlaid TV for their inaugural project.
The tabletop is a 4’x4′ sheet of plywood, reinforced from underneath and cut out to accommodate a support box for the TV. Each leg ended up being four pieces of 1’x4′ wood, laminated together with a channel cut into one for the table’s power cable. An outer ledge has dice trays …read more
The first computer I ever physically saw — I think — was an IBM System/3. You might not remember them. They were business computers for businesses that couldn’t justify a big mainframe. They were “midrange.” Nevermind that the thing probably had the memory and processing speed of the CPU inside my mouse. Time progressed and IBM moved on to the System/3x (for example, the System/32). Next up was the AS/400 and finally the IBM i, which is still in production. Here’s a secret, though, most of the code I’ve seen running on an IBM i dates back to at least …read more
An FBI memo written during the Unabomber investigation describes roleplayers as ‘armed and dangerous,’ ‘extremely intelligent individuals’ and ‘overweight and not neat in appearance.’ Continue reading Why The FBI Investigated ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Players in the 1990s
