Parser IF as a poetic form or mode of visual rhetoric? - Portrait With Wolf by Drew Cook

I've been writing about Portrait with Wolf ^_^ for a while now. I see it as a poetry project these days. As you can see from the image, typical parser games have a recognizable format: bibliographical...

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I mentioned last time that I have two goals for the current "Portrait With Wolf" project (besides showing people how to do stuff, ofc):

1 Build a template for people to write Inform 7 "poetry" based on common visual features of a parser game's screen.
2. Do my own larger, more complex poetry project based on the template.

https://topexpert.blog/2024/10/10/lets-make-if-12-formatting-and-forgeries/

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let’s make IF #12: formatting and forgeries

More on building a “page” or screen that looks like an Inform 7 game (as is an Inform 7 game) last time, on let’s make IF… In the previous episode, I revealed my sinister pl…

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