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... n the "IF as Casual Game" Aesthetic Stephen Granade recently offered via email a bit of respectful push-back on my concerns about what I call the "IF as casual game" aesthetic, as expressed in my SPAG #52 editorial and in my review of Violet in SPAG #53. Naturally your irrepressible editor had something to say in return, and the exchange developed into an interesting conversation that we thought might interest SPAG's readers. Said conversation follows, formatted for flow. Stephen: One note abou ...

SPAG (The Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) ISSUE #53 Edited by Jimmy Maher November 16, 2008 SPAG #53 is copyright (c) 2008 by Jimmy Maher. Authors of reviews and articles retain the rights to their contributions. All email addresses are spamblocked -- replace the name of our magazine with the traditi ...

... e way to recent times! See you soon! Thanks again for reading! Stay safe everyone, and see you next month! 😃 Issue #6 : A short history of French text adventures I recently had the opportunity to publish an article which made the front cover of isse #53 of the Spanish CAAD magazine, which is a great magazine dedicated to text adventures. In that article, I discussed the history of text adventures in French, going all the way back to 1979 and the translation of Mystery House (see Issue #1), and disc ...

... e Literacy Jam has just closed with 10 submissions in English and 7 in Spanish! You can now play the games and vote for them; you have a little over three weeks to do so. CAAD, the magazine on interactive fiction in Spanish, has released their issue #53 - over 120 pages! It includes a primer on French interactive fiction written by yours truly, a discussion on the origin of the term "aventuras conversacionales", and an article by Chris Ainsley on Adventuron! (And more! DAAD charset editing, a new S ...

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... the memory where Heroes II starts. "009826CF" stands for the number bytes Heroes II occupies in the memory. It tells MB the number of bytes I want to search for, from the initial address. "00190035" stands for 25 Minotaurs and 53 Dwarfs. #25=$19 and #53=$35. Since I've done this before I know that Heroes II stores the the number of creatures in word sized blocks of memory. If I didn't know that I would have had to search for "0019" first (or "19") and look at it in it's context. When I ...

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... uarded as well, just wooden planks to walk across with no handrails, but this doesn't scare me like the other open area. Here my concern is mainly trying not to fall and it's just a short distance of a few feet that I have to walk, unaided. (960823) #537 Misc (Comments from Nutcracker on the above dream: This feeling of excitement and fear is a real one for me, and one I still have. As a child, growing up Catholic we would have to attend mass every day before school began. Each grade, on a weekly b ...