Interactive Fiction, CS 253
This is the official course website for Interactive Fiction, CS 253,
taught by Ira Fay at Hampshire College in Spring 2020.
Basic Info
The most important documents for this class are the
syllabus
and the schedule.
They contain useful information, so please read them!
Class Sessions: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30am - 11:50am, FPH 101
Labs: Fridays 10:30am - 1pm
Professor: Ira Fay, (413) 559-6844, ASH 216, ifay@hampshire.edu
Office Hours:
A sign up sheet is available digitally.
Course Slack Channel: Hampshire Game Dev
(sign up here, then click
"Channels" on the left nav and choose #cs253)
Recommended Texts: Please see the Useful
Links section
Projects
Project
0
Project
1 and Slide
Presentation for Project 1 Pitches and Preferences
for Project 1 and Project
1 Final Presentations
Project 2 and Slide Presentation for Project 2 Pitches and Preferences
for Project 2
Bonus Project
Reality Distancing (choice-based)
IP Policy
All work in this course will be governed by Hampshire's
Intellectual Property (IP) Policy and this Additional
IP Policy. Please ask Ira ASAP if you have any questions.
Useful Links
Collection
of Useful Interactive Fiction Links
How to setup your own Hampshire website
Slides on Playtesting
Previous Survey Links
Project 1 Final Survey
Week 4 Survey
Welcome survey
Bonus Info
Email Lists
If you want to know about Game Development at Hampshire and in the Five
Colleges, join the Game
Development email list. You may also want to join the
Game
Jobs email list. In fact, you might just want to
browse all the lists at Hampshire and
find lists that appeal to you. Ensure you're also on the HampshireGameDev Slack for this
class.
Global Game Jam
Make a game in 48 hours! Free food!
Friday, January 31 at 5pm
The event is open to everyone and should be lots of fun and good experience!
Game Gatherings
Play and analyze board and card games. Contact Ira to organize
a time to play games!
Game Library
We are fortunate that the Hampshire library has an ever-growing
collection of board
games and digital games. Students, staff, and faculty members have access to
this great resource. Please make use of it, and feel free to give feedback to
Ira on your experience.
GlowLime Games
GlowLime Games is a now-defunct student group that focused on facilitating game development among
students in the Five College area. If you are interested in restarting this
club, please contact Ira!
Pioneer
Valley Game Developers (PVGD)
The Pioneer Valley Game Developers (PVGD) meetup group is another great resource
and community for game developers in the area.
The Quarters
The Quarters is an incredible arcade +
restaurant. They have my full support, and their food is excellent and
reasonably priced. If anyone beats my
high score on Arkanoid, please let me
know.
Word Snack and Project IONA
These are two digital games made by Hampshire students, staff, faculty, and Five
College members. Each game was made in a semester as part of the
Interdisciplinary Game Studio course. Try them out!
Game Stores
For some projects or just general fun, it may be useful for you to be aware
of nearby
boardgame stores.
