It's that time again! A new half term means a new round of "Coding Games with a Story", our 5 week live online course for under 18s on building a visual novel with Ink.

What's a visual novel? Excellent question! It's the point where the novel (a text based story) intersects with the sceenplay (scenes, character visuals, and soundtrack) and the computer game (the reader can make choices that change the story).

Sounds interesting? Find out more about the instructor and the courses at thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/... , or get a look at the style of what we'll be building at visualink.mavnn.eu/ #homeed #gamedev #visualnovel #interactivefiction

Mit Twine und Chapbook ins Wunderland (reloaded)

Ich möchte eine lang gehegte und lang angekündigte Idee realisieren und meine Reise ins Wunderland mit Twine und dem Storyformat Chapbook, die ich im August 2023 schon einmal (Teil 0.0, Teil 0.1, Teil 0.2) unternommen hatte, wieder aufnehmen und daraus ein Tutorial basteln. https://kantel.github.io/posts/2026040801_chapbook_wunderland_reloaded/ Warnung: Langer Beitrag!
#Twine #TweeGo #Chapbook #InteractiveFiction #GameDev #Alice

Today we are announcing the results of our microgrants program, class of 2026!
Head over to https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2026-04-08-announcing-the-2026-iftf-grant-recipients.html to learn more about the 4 projects we are funding once again this year. We're excited to fund them!

And thank you to all applicants for the continued interest in the program, and to our lovely group of advisors!

#InteractiveFiction #IFTF #DigitalArts #gamedev

I hope to play some of this year's Spring Thing Festival interactive fiction games. It's always a highlight for me each year and if my progressive illness allows it's great to play, judge and review the games. Definitely worth checking out for fans of IF, old and new style. https://www.springthing.net/2026/

#Games #IndieGames #InteractiveFiction

https://www.wraithkal.com/spring-thing-2026-entries-playable/

#SpringThing #interactivefiction

Next on All the Adventures, I embark on a story that starts during WW2 and the founding of a publishing company

passing through accounting textbooks and innovations in erotic scholarship

and landing at the first all-text adventure game written in Japanese.

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/04/05/phantom-ship-1982/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #history #japan #japanese