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Dr Melissa Kagen of Bangor University joins us this week to talk about "wandering games": walking sims, archival adventures, and "misplaying" video games for cultural and political purposes. Be sure to check out the Call for Proposals for Melissa Kagen & Eben Muse's "Wandering Games" Conference, 10-12 July 2019 in Bangor, Wales, UK. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at https://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/11/2-02.html.

We had a break - what did we do? What projects are we working on? We discuss our experiences over the summer, our current digital writing projects, and the state of our practice-based research. Easing into this season, when we'll be hosting numerous guests on the podcast! Show notes with links mentioned can be found at https://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/10/2-01.html.

We're back! What's coming up in Season 2?

In this last episode of the season, we revisit some topics to explore them further, including: digital fiction museums, locative transmedia works, publishing digital fiction, walking sims, and the future. BONUS: Blooper reel! Show notes with links mentioned can be found at https://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/07/1-08.html.

Why isn't digital fiction everywhere? Part of the reason we don't see it in stores is because it doesn't have an established publishing stream. We look at some of the publishing efforts in the history of digital fiction in this episode. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at https://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/07/1-07.html.

We finally get to talk about our favorite topic: writing digital fiction! What are the most frequent questions we get as digital writers? How is it different from prose writing? How is it the same? Since we're practice-based researchers in creative writing, these are just the sorts of questions we are looking to answer in our creative work. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at https://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/06/1-06.html.

Digital media has the ability to both transcend and combine narrative forms: film, game, text, music, and more. As a result of the mutable quality of digital media and the networked capability of the internet, narratives now spill over multiple media, with different elements of the story spread across film, forums, TV, books, and more. We go down some transmedia narrative rabbit holes, discussing what transmedia storytelling is and how it's being used. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at http://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/06/1-05.html.

Like all things digital, digital fiction is prone to obsolescence, and we're already losing key works. We chat about the evanescence of the medium, archiving digital fiction, and what we do as writers to make our works accessible for as long as possible - and whether we should even bother. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at http://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/04/1-04.html.

Hypertexts are one of the oldest and enduring forms of digital literature, dating from the 1st gen in 1987, to the explosion in indie games thanks to Twine. We chat about how hypertexts form the foundation of digital fiction, what role they play in culture, and we share some of our favorites. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at http://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/03/1-03.html.

Interactive fiction (better known as text adventure games) is the forerunner of narrative-based video games. In this episode, we discuss the origins of IF, its commercial heyday, and what contemporary IF has become. Show notes with links mentioned can be found at http://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/03/1-02.html.

The term "digital fiction" may not be familiar to you, but the works probably are. Electronic literature often goes viral; we enjoy it and pass it on without really thinking about what else is out there. But there's a lot else out there! We discuss DF you may have already seen, and some you might want to look up. Show notes can be found at http://podcast.wonderboxpublishing.com/2018/03/1-01.html. 

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