{"id":2651,"date":"2010-10-29T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-automatypewriter\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T20:59:13","slug":"the-automatypewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/29\/the-automatypewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Automatypewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/upnotnorth.net\/2010\/10\/29\/a-new-way-to-interact-with-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Up, Not North<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Hoefler Text', Constantia, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.7em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upnotnorth.net\/2010\/10\/29\/a-new-way-to-interact-with-fiction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to A new way to interact with fiction\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #889296\">A new way to interact with fiction<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"date\" style=\"margin-top: -2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'Hoefler Text', Constantia, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-variant: small-caps; color: #aaaaaa; font-size: 0.8em; padding: 0px\">October 29th, 2010<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\" style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify; color: #516064\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqvimeo\" style=\"display: block; max-width: 100%; visibility: visible !important; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; width: 480px; height: 360px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/16311288?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=0&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;color=FF9900\" id=\"vvq-506-vimeo-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px\">Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interactive_fiction\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">interactive fiction<\/a>! It\u2019s still a little rough around the edges (in particular, you can see that the spacebar sticks a little, and the whole thing needs to be tidied up), but you get the idea: the Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type on its own, as well as detect what you type on it. By reading what it types to you and responding, it can be used interactively to play a game or participate in a story (in this case,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zork\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">Zork<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px\">Though the medium may be the message, a games platform is only as good as its content. To that end I\u2019m collaborating with<a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\/store\/\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0novelist, graphic novelist<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infestwisely.com\/\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">filmmaker<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/handeyesociety.com\/\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">community organizer<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\/games\/everybody_dies_takes_bronze_at_ifcomp.html\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\">award-winning<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\/category\/games\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\">interactive fiction developer<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\/\" style=\"outline-width: medium; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #444444; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #dddddd; font-weight: bold\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Munroe<\/a>, who is creating custom software specifically tailored to the Automatypewriter.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Hoefler Text', Constantia, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 2em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Why?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px\">Interactive fiction is a great genre that is too often overlooked. By providing a tactile and surprising way to experience these games, I hope to engage a wider audience. More generally, moving the platform to a typewriter highlights the role the user assumes as an \u201cauthor\u201d in helping to create the story, and not just as a \u201cplayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.7em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px\">Also, the usual hacker reason: because we think it\u2019s cool!<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/upnotnorth.net\/2010\/10\/29\/a-new-way-to-interact-with-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at UpNotNorth.net<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Up, Not North A new way to interact with fiction October 29th, 2010 Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience\u00a0interactive fiction! It\u2019s still a little rough around the edges (in particular, you can see that the spacebar sticks a little, and the whole thing needs to be tidied up), but you get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}