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Odd job: General Role Player – Embedded Reporter

September 6, 2012 — Leave a comment
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“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”Lafayette Photo, London / Foter

Journalists, if the fastest-dying industry in America can’t hire you, maybe pretending to be a reporter for the Tatitlek Corporation is the next step.

Oddly enough, even a pretend reporter needs to “realistically [interact] with villagers in a dynamic setting” and “write in a clear and comprehensive manner consistent with a news reporter and take video of news events.”

Whoever goes for this job, please, please, please author a story about it, or at least talk to me about it. But be careful. Role-playing can get deadly:

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Language as a joystick is back from the '80s, but are our imaginations up for it?

October 8, 2010 — Leave a comment

The text-based role-playing game Zork, a mythologically powerful bundle of Apple IIe joy from my childhood that was filled with interactive fiction, is now available for your Kindle or other device via the simple Web site of PortableQuest.com.

I credit games like Zork with strengthening my imagination, providing me a much-needed escape, teaching me how to type (poorly), and bequeathing me endless hours of joyous frustration as I sought the correct combination of actions to move a story forward. A particularly confounding monkey grinder comes to mind.

Are our imaginations, grown lazy after years of being fed increasingly sophisticated graphics and constructed visual universes, still up for the duty of creating an engaging fictional landscape? Or has my thumb and a button forever replaced the thrill that writing “go north” somehow managed to create in me as I traveled through slowly unlocking paragraphs? Guess I’ll find out. Playing now.

Discovery path!: Here < The Escapist < Gizmodo < Wired.co.uk < @planetsurfer

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