It’s 2017, and conversational interfaces (people talking with machines the same way they talk to other people) are everywhere. Siri has become a household name. Taco Bell lets you order tacos over ...

Westworld is, in many ways, a giant game. The Man in Black plays it as such, for example. The park itself is an open-ended simulation of sorts, with various narratives dynamically produced. Rather ...

Change the story of a novel or comic at the touch of a button! Interactive fiction technology is now set to change the way people read books Change the story of a novel or comic at the touch of a ...

It all started with an episode of “The Big Bang Theory”. Protagonist Dr. Sheldon Cooper sits in front of his laptop, his face distorted by heavy concentration. He’s playing a game. Suddenly, he starts ...

Interactive fiction, aka text adventure games, have finally come to the one platform for which they could hardly be more perfect: Amazon’s Kindle. The first work of interactive fiction on the device ...

In The Pause Between The Ringing is a set of stories nestling within one another. An interplay of text and built environments, it falls within the intersection of literary fiction and gaming. Bright ...

Now that we're all getting comfortable with the notion of reading books on digital displays, it's little surprise that developers are starting to explore the interactive possibilities of electronic ...

Global design agency IDEO thinks merging the digital novel with playful interactions might lead to a new era of writing... What impact will digital books have on the experience of the written word – ...