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A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix. 

This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.

got this from Jordan's tweet

open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours, and interactive stories....

This week, we explain why settling on a story before you've started your game may be a bad idea. Come discuss this topic in the forums ! -I don't know if I agree with all of this, but it's good to think about.

This could be another option for your next/second project....

some echoes of electracy--"history and theory of reading/writing"

big gaming conference in Boston early April: on how Boston is a "hub for gaming industry"

article on board game design in yesterday's paper

article in today's Globe mentions grammatologists Ong and Havelock

a good review of Curt Schilling's gaming company's first production

A funny story about rules introduced in the newest version of Scrabble. He touches on some of the same stuff we've been talking about.

by Clara Fernandez Vara

just met this woman at writer's group for interactive fiction. She uses memory palaces in her recent work!!