{"id":1220,"date":"2008-01-30T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/01\/30\/childs-play-a-new-text-adventure\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:14:47","slug":"childs-play-a-new-text-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Child’s Play, a New Text Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys.<\/p>\n

She shouldn’t get your toys.<\/p>\n

You tried telling the mom this but she doesn’t understand you. She mostly ignored you but then she just shoved a pacifier in your mouth and changed your diaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in 2006 I wrote a playable introduction for a text adventure called Child’s Play<\/i><\/a>. At the end of last year I finished it. It’s finally polished enough that I’m pimping it on the blog.<\/p>\n

For those of you unfamiliar with interactive fiction, works of IF are (roughly speaking) text-based games where you play the protagonist in a story and deal with puzzles. In this one you play a baby struggling against another baby for control of your favorite toy during a playdate.<\/p>\n

This is a work of fiction.<\/p>\n

At any rate, go download Child’s Play<\/i><\/a> and give it a try. You can even play it online<\/a> if you don’t want to sully your computer with IF just yet. If you’ve not played IF before and would like some guidance, you should read Emily Short’s guide to IF<\/a>. And if you write IF, why not peruse the source code<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn’t get your toys. You tried telling the mom this but she doesn’t understand you. She mostly ignored you but then she just shoved a pacifier in your … Continue reading Child’s Play, a New Text Adventure<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}