{"id":10431,"date":"2013-06-24T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10431"},"modified":"2013-06-24T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:31:37","slug":"where-interactive-fiction-authors-and-games-stand-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10431","title":{"rendered":"Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The rise of the iPhone and mobile platforms in general, along with developer-friendly app stores, has made the idea of commercializing interactive fiction possible again. In the age of Infocom, the crude graphics on top-end hardware meant the potential market for text-only games for personal computers was in the millions, and this was enough to fund a whole company of developers. Today, people aren\u2019t likely to pay money to sit down at a PC to play a text adventure game, but enough of them might want to play such a game on their mobile device to fund teams of one or two independent developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/06\/heirs-of-infocom-where-interactive-fiction-authors-and-games-stand-today\/\">Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of the iPhone and mobile platforms in general, along with developer-friendly app stores, has made the idea of commercializing interactive fiction possible again. In the age of Infocom, the crude graphics on top-end hardware meant the potential market &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10431\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,1],"tags":[661,1161,525,227],"class_list":["post-10431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-uncategorized","tag-gaming","tag-interactive-fiction","tag-market-trends","tag-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}