Eric’s Edge

Eric’s Edge

@ericsedge.com

He/Him Authoring ”Adventure! The Quack of Dawn” mostly text adventure game in #HyperCard. https://quackofdawn.com “Ask me about HyperCard” I'm all about vintage computers and vintage analog medium/large format film photography.

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Emily M. Bender
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Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Eric’s Edge
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Whilst searching for references I came across this interesting article. #Writing "If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms. Make yourself an amateur in a new genre. Professionalism is something we want in airplane pilots and plumbers."

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Here's another nice tidbit. #Novelist ..I'd published nothing that year while the large and deformed body of my novel hulked over me like Quasimodo's shadow, and, deprived of the pleasures of variety and visibility, murmured to myself self-pityingly, "I used to be a writer but now I'm a novelist."

Eric’s Edge
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Whilst searching for references I came across this interesting article. #Writing "If it begins to feel too easy to do something, change forms. Make yourself an amateur in a new genre. Professionalism is something we want in airplane pilots and plumbers."

Eric’s Edge
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"But writers should always be doing something new and therefore dangerous, putting their feet down carefully the first time, feeling themselves walking over an abyss, or leaping into space without any idea where they'll come down."

Eric’s Edge
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I ran into this study while researching game design. It's nearly 10 years old and still holds up. Technically, being born in 1963, I fall into "Generation Jones" - growing up in the shadow of the silent generation - too young to participate in the cultural revolution.

Eric’s Edge
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I do enjoy text adventure games more - like a boomer. I'd rather take my time than hack and slash. I've played many first-person-shooters, I'm just not interested in developing them. Maybe that's what attracts me to developing text and point-and-click text adventure games?

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Heersred
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@ericsedge.com hi Eric, this is Jennifer from #RobJenCollecions, we aren't in the show this year. But definitely will be coming for a visit. I got some of my paintings accepted into an art show in Chicago on Oct 2, in a gallery in the Logan Square neighborhood.. www.vibrantcast.com/events/608

vibrantcast.comPeople's Choice Fall Exhibition at Hairpin Arts Center — October 2, 2026 — VibrantCastVibrantCast invites artists to submit up to three original artworks for our upcoming People’s Choice Fall Exhibition—a one-day, in-person exhibition shaped with the help of art lovers and collectors.
Eric’s Edge
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Playing around with alternative opening scenes for my game. The protagonist in the opening scene compares a crowd of people boarding a train at a station to a European Starling murmuration. The music is "Our Story Begins" from the prolific Kevin MacLeod. The video is cut from several CC videos.

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Who do you hope ISN’T the voice of this narrator?

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You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Eric’s Edge
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I joined the RIFA smoking club this weekend. Took some #Macintosh computers to our #LAVCC meetup Saturday. And reveled in the smell of burning plastic and sadness.

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Sam Johnson
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Capturing Spring - photograph of the leaves of a Japanese Maple tree taken on a Spring morning using my Nikon F2 and Ilford FP4 developed with DD-X and printed onto mulberry paper #believeinfilm

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"Good" content still exists on the Internet. Sometimes I get lucky. "...go light on the furniture wax and/or Botox. You don’t want to turn yourself from a slightly scuffed midcentury classic into a brutalist nightmare with Mar-a-Lago face." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

mcsweeneys.netYour Body Is Now Considered Vintage“We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from ‘garage sale ju...
Eric’s Edge
@ericsedge.com

"Good" content still exists on the Internet. Sometimes I get lucky. "...go light on the furniture wax and/or Botox. You don’t want to turn yourself from a slightly scuffed midcentury classic into a brutalist nightmare with Mar-a-Lago face." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

mcsweeneys.netYour Body Is Now Considered Vintage“We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from ‘garage sale ju...

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Ben Hart (share my pinned)
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Linktree sent out an email letting everyone who uses their service know that they're adding AI features and that THEY'RE not responsible for making sure those AI features are accurate or even legal — YOU are.

Eric’s Edge
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Oh great and powerful Internet Netizens, hear my plea! I’m working on a game. A point and click game. A murder mystery game. Starting with a script with an embedded player decision tree. The script reads much like a choose your own adventure book actually.

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I wonder if I should try morphing it into choose your own adventure book when I ask for peer reviews. Do people think that would be more palatable than a script full of forking decision tree notes? It feels like it would. #game #design #adventure #script