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		<title>Wie man Text-Adventures spielt &#8211; How to Play Interactive Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wie spielt man Text-Adventures (interaktive Geschichten)? PDF-Version: play-if-card_de.pdf (34 KB) SVG-Version: play-if-card_de.odt (50 KB) (wegen WordPress-Beschränkungen in .odt umbenannt; einfach die Endung in .svg ändern und z. B. mit Inkscape öffnen; just rename the file to .svg and open it in Inkscape) Dies ist die deutsche Version der Kurzanleitung, die von Andrew Plotkin und Lea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=60&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IntroComp 2010 &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After playing the entries and jotting down some notes, I read the other reviews, and I think I don&#8217;t have much to add. For the sake of completeness, here are my thoughts on the remaining IntroComp 2010 games. In the meantime, I totally forgot about the awards ceremony on ifmud. Congratulations to the winners, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=47&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IntroComp 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As its name suggests, the idea of IntroComp is to write the beginning stages of a game, which will then be judged according to how much one would like to play more of that game. First, let me say thanks to the IntroComp organiser Jacqueline A. Lott and to all the authors. I enjoyed all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=40&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halting in abject failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick note to say I&#8217;m really sorry that I haven&#8217;t written any further reviews. I was (and am) busy with academic work and other non-IF stuff. Since it is exceedingly unlikely that I&#8217;ll be able to both play AND review the remaining games before the voting deadline, I&#8217;ll concentrate on playing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=35&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF Comp 2009 &#8211; GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler prevention text: I briefly wondered whether this would turn out to be about Charlotte Roche&#8217;s recent novel, but it&#8217;s more about this: Periphyton is a complex mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems. It serves as an important food source for invertebrates, tadpoles, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=29&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF Comp 2009 &#8211; Interface</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler prevention text, totally unrelated to the game: &#8220;There is no doubt that men in England fall in love chiefly in abnormal periods: when on a reading party or at the seaside, or at a foreign hotel, or at Christmas, or any other occasion when something, either external circumstances or any dominant emotion, thaws the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=26&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF Comp 2009 &#8211; Grounded in Space</title>
		<link>http://amaraterramia.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/if-comp-2009-grounded-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s RSS feed filler is a poem, following Victor Gijsbers&#8217; example: Henry Charles Beeching (1859-1919) Going down Hill on a Bicycle -A Boy&#8217;s Song- With lifted feet, hands still, I am poised, and down the hill Dart, with heedful mind; The air goes by in a wind. Swifter and yet more swift, Till the heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=20&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF Comp 2009 &#8211; Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Non-spoiler note about Eric Eve&#8217;s Snowquest and Oliver Ullmann&#8217;s The Duel that Spanned the Ages: I was a beta-tester for these, so I&#8217;m not going to review them. I guess I&#8217;m not overstepping the bounds of propriety, though, when I say I heartily recommend both. Another few lines of spoiler-prevention text &#8212; some great palindromes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=14&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IF Comp 2009 &#8211; The Hangover</title>
		<link>http://amaraterramia.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/if-comp-2009-the-hangover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to prevent spoilers from showing up in the RSS feeds (in the unlikely event that this new blog is actually syndicated where someone might read it), I&#8217;ll write a bit of text on an unrelated topic &#8211; a movie recommendation.  Yilmaz Arslan&#8217;s &#8220;Brudermord/Fratricide&#8221; is a gripping movie that did not get the recognition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amaraterramia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9777824&amp;post=5&amp;subd=amaraterramia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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