Grand Text Auto is kind of our evil (good?) twin in the industry/academic video gaming collablog space -- a bunch of really smart folks blogging together about games. While we focus mainly on virtual worlds here, GTxA focuses mainly on interactive fiction. (If you don't read it regularly, there's an index here with a topical list of posts.)
Besides being smart, the GTxA folks are creative to boot. Most of our readers are probably familiar with the ground-breaking Façade by Stern and Mateas, hailed by the New York Times and gaming theory guru Chris Crawford. Last week, Nick Monfort, author of Twisty Little Passages, released Book and Volume -- an interactive fiction work available for free online. If you're interested in thinking about future possibilities of the MMOG form (i.e. is there an alternative to rat-whacking and FedExing?) you should take a look at this stuff. Plus, it's free -- can't beat that.
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