New Private Library and Unlisted Features

With an eye towards making things easier for people running writing workshops, we have added a new private library option under the caret of the New Story button:

This means workshop attendees can then publish their stories in the private library just for other workshop attendees to play instead of in the Public Library. While he was at it, Juhana added an "unlisted link" publishing option for times you want to share your game easily but don't want to have it appear in the Public Library yet (or ever). Perfect for getting beta tester feedback for say...

The Interactive Fiction Comp & WordPlay!

WordPlay

WordPlay, a free Festival of Writerly Games in its seventh year, is happening in Toronto November 9-10th! You can submit talk proposals until Sept 1st and game submissions until Aug. 11th over here! No fees, and if selected you get paid.

Interactive Fiction Competition

If you want to take advantage of the IFComp's deadlines to motivate yourself to make a game, September 1st is when you need to register your intent. September 28th is the game submission deadline. Get your game played by lots of IF fans! Win fame and minor prizes! Participate in the 25th year of this keystone community event! And if you end up making a game with Texture, I'd be happy to give feedback as a betatester!

Featured Games

A Critical Autobiography
by Ramona Caprariu

An intriguing approach to interactive autobiography.

Build Your Own Planet
by Aidan Glendon

Create a planet that can sustain life, based on singular events that can change the course of your celestial object.

Interactive Translation
"A proof of concept inspired by "Endure", translate this custom-made poem
the way you want to make much, much more poetry."
(Perhaps prompted by Emily Short's discussion of Metamorphic Texts.)

Texture Workshops

I will be coming to the Ottawa, Vancouver and Buenos Aires area between now and the end of the year. Do you live there? Want me to do a Texture Workshop? I've done them in Toronto, NYC, and Chicago so far and I'm getting pretty good at them. Drop a line!

Other Game Tools News!

At the new games conference Narrascope the creator of Inform, Graham Nelson, announced that the parser-based text game tool would be opened up. Exciting! Juhana has wanted to do this with Texture as well for a while. If this intrigues you, please drop us a line!

Are you an educator
...interested in using Texture in the classroom? We just added a Google login option so the tool can be used easily in the classrooms using Google without breaching data collection policies. Please drop us a line if you'd like to discuss how to use Texture to engage reluctant writers in elementary, highschool and beyond!

Til next time!
Jim

PS. Are you so into Texture that you play all the games, and read right to the end of the newsletter even when the print is small? You might be the community editor we're looking for! Shoot us a little write up of a game we haven't featured yet that you think we should have, and we'll go from there!