Comments for The Textfyre Times

Comment on Writing to the Interactive Fiction Medium by David Cornelson

David Cornelson — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:54:38 +0000

The link is fixed. Good luck. Make sure you build out your network with education and business people.

Comment on Writing to the Interactive Fiction Medium by Amer Khan

Amer Khan — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:15:31 +0000

Hi, the link to the document does not work. Thanks. By the way, your entrepreneurial story is fascinating and highly informative. I am also planning to start something similar to textfyre..but in South East Asia!

Comment on Back to Square One by David Cornelson

David Cornelson — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:01:26 +0000

Reaching the Infocom status is not as simple as it seems. I still think it’s possible, but it remains a very complex quest that requires a sizable amount of cash and/or support. Moving to education was something that I looked at from a business perspective and is supported by research. Whether I can connect the dots from research to need to product is an open question that I’m still figuring out how to answer.

Comment on Back to Square One by David Cornelson

David Cornelson — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:59:04 +0000

I’m not sure I entirely understand your work, but it looks very interesting. You should add your blog to planet-if to share it. It seems appropriate enough.

Comment on Back to Square One by Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:10:26 +0000

Back when I bought the .ulx version of Shadow in the Cathedral, I thought Textfyre had the chance to be another Infocom. Now it looks like you’re working on another Cornerstone.

Comment on Back to Square One by Bryan Livingston

Bryan Livingston — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:39:23 +0000

I know this is totally irrelevant, but I’ve been using the Textfyre engine to try to build a general purpose AI for text games using my formal language at http://http://babelproject.com/

I’ve got a prototype working if you are interested.

Comment on The New Textfyre by Retro

Retro — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:02:02 +0000

I have frotz for iPad which supports Glulx so I will buy the hobbiest version of Shadow and try it that way. Many thanks.

Comment on The New Textfyre by David Cornelson

David Cornelson — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:00:02 +0000

The Secret Letter game is only available as a Silverlight installation and the demo uses Silverlight as well. Efforts to move this to different platforms are on a to do list. You can play the full version of Shadow online at http://shadow.textfyre.com (although there may be bugs from porting it online).

Comment on The New Textfyre by Retro

Retro — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:53:58 +0000

I cant get your online demos on the textfyre website to work on my ipad. They keep trying to install silverlight which ipad doesn’t support.

Comment on The Shadow in the Cathedral – Online by Peter Pears

Peter Pears — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:21:47 +0000

Not that I’m aware of, it’s just that, having purchased it, I would like to have free access to an updated version. I’m always on the lookout for newest releases. I like having the best available versions.