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Turns out there *was* more and better coverage of Clive Sinclair's death: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-09-19-in-memory-of-sir-clive-sinclair

Hello, everyone! My #GameDev news for 25 September 2021 are here, with a new tabletop RPG from me, plus much retrogaming and history from others. Enjoy! https://notimetoplay.org/blog/gamedev-news-20210925.html

@timkrief It's slow on my machine, but looks very cool!

Aaron A. Reed writes about 2006 hit Dwarf Fortress, and the extraordinary narrative power of procedural generation: https://if50.substack.com/p/2006-dwarf-fortress

This is big. I mean, everyone's heard of Roberta Williams or Emily Short, but there are so many others who are seldom if ever mentioned.

Uncovering The Real History Of The Women Who Pioneered Video Games https://kotaku.com/uncovering-the-real-history-of-the-women-who-pioneered-1847718451

Narrative design myth-busting: It's not "just writing" https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/narrative-design-myth-buster-1-it-s-not-just-writing

I had no idea there were so many different versions of Space Invaders from Taito alone: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/space-invaders-invincible-collection/

@alcinnz Belatedly, all I can offer at the moment is a recent opinion piece: https://felix.plesoianu.ro/blog/stop-blaming-the-web.html

Just released my tabletop RPG (for certain values of tabletop) Gamebooks & Goonies, that I've been planning since late spring: https://notimetoplay.itch.io/gng

The Digital Antiquarian covers that time in the mid-1990s when the ill-fated concept of bookware made a brief return during the CD-ROM era: https://www.filfre.net/2021/09/shannara-or-bookware-mark-2/

Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord (seriously, please) https://kotaku.com/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord-1847684851

Clive Sinclair died! D: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58587521

Highly informative write-up about the history of blind-accessible games: first text-based, then audio, and into the mainstream, including an in-depth case study of the game that opened the floodgates: https://if50.substack.com/p/2005-shades-of-doom

Turns out there's a new retrogaming blog out there as of February this year, and I'm only finding out about it now: https://www.retrocollector.in.nf/

Hello, everyone! My #GameDev news for 15 September 2021 are here, with old classics, old media, interactive fiction, and worldbuilding talk. Enjoy! https://notimetoplay.org/blog/gamedev-news-20210915.html

"I personally don’t like the macro syntax, though." People never figured out that #Twine is a compiler for multiple story formats. Big fail there. https://intfiction.org/t/which-engine-is-best-for-my-needs/52480/4

Good discussion thread about the Medieval Stasis trope, for all writers, not just game designers: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/medieval-stasis.886681/

The 50 Years of Text Games blog has reached 2004 and The Fire Tower: https://if50.substack.com/p/2004-the-fire-tower