The purpose of this project is simple: to create interactive adventures based on the unfinished story ideas that H.P. Lovecraft collected in his "Commonplace Book". The first set of games were created from April to June of 2007 and have been published here, in an online exhibition. This exhibition is free for everyone to enjoy, in return for your feedback. As of October 27, 2007, these games are also appearing in an exhibit of art and stories based on the Commonplace Book at the Maison d'Ailleurs, Switzerland. Click here for more information. This project is truly international, with French, English, and Spanish entries already on exhibit. Games in this exhibit are not necessarily written by or owned by Illuminated Lantern Publishing; we are simply hosting and organizing the project.
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Much interactive fiction requires a time commitment of an hour or two, and sometimes quite a bit more. Not so with the text adventure entries in the Commonplace Book project, in which each entrant took a line from a notebook by H. P. Lovecraft and spun it out into a game. This was an international competition, drawing entries in English, French, and Spanish, as well as a couple of graphical point-and-click adventures...
Posted by: JayIsGames.com | October 10, 2007 10:30 PM
Gamers are generally surprised when the topic of new text-adventure games is brought up. Familiar as we are with pioneers of gaming such as Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the idea that anyone still enjoys a rousing session of “guess what I want you to type” is baffling to most of us.
On the other hand, there is something to be said for any game that implants alien weevils in your head and expects you to type your way out of it. ..
Posted by: Destructoid.com | October 10, 2007 10:35 PM
Lovecraft’s “Commonplace Book” was a notebook in which he jotted down his various ideas, many of them disjointed and cryptic; most of these musings never became real stories. The Commonplace Book Project is a collection of text adventures (interactive fiction games) which are based on these notes. Great idea!...
Posted by: TIGSource.com | October 10, 2007 10:38 PM
Interactive fiction (text-adventures) and HPL's kind of horror seem like a match made in a particularly tentacled heaven. ..
Posted by: gnomeslair.blogspot.com | October 10, 2007 10:43 PM
If...youare interested at all in interactive fiction (something I have waxed lyrical about in the past), give the Lovecraft Commonplace Book project a look...
Posted by: Silicon Dreams | October 27, 2007 09:39 PM
Awesome, but where's Anchorhead? I gave a brief shout out @ GameCouch.com.
Posted by: Terry | October 31, 2007 01:29 PM