Years ago I used to write interactive fiction as enthusiastically as I did short stories and unfinished novels, but until very recently I hadn’t touched the medium again.<\/p>\n
And here is the fruit of my nostalgic experimentation, a story titled Finch.<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks are in order for Joseph Humfrey<\/a>, who designed an IF scripting language that was pleasant to write in, and for Yannick Lohse<\/a>, to whom I owe being able to make Finch playable in your browser.<\/p>\n I say, “I’ve lost so much because of you.” Years ago I used to write interactive fiction as enthusiastically as I did short stories and unfinished novels, but until very recently I hadn’t touched the medium again. And here is the fruit of my nostalgic experimentation, a story titled Finch. Thanks are in order for Joseph Humfrey, who designed an IF scripting language that was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,23,15],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ink","tag-interactive-fiction","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pineapplemachine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n“I’m sorry,” he says. “But we can make it right. I’m here for you.”
\nI look around his apartment for something I can hurt him with.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"