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The Mind Children adventure game

I'm writing a text-based adventure based on The Mind Children using (almost) period software - The Quill for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. While I am working on it, you can play an early version online here. It was written in Inform 7. It's not a…

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Inspirations for The Mind Children

A post on the inspirations and references used in series 9 of Listen with Other, The Mind Children. First up, of course, its main inspiration was The Tomorrow People. What if HTV had made something like it? What if it were cancelled? What if The…

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Behind Tomorrow Never Knows

Time for a post on the inspirations for series 8 of Listen with Other, TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS. The title, obvs, is from the song where The Beatles invented The Chemical Brothers, but the story itself was inspired by a trip to Alnwick in 2013. The…

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Down fathoms dived, the cable lies.

A little post on the inspirations behind series 7 of Listen with Other: Hello World. The main story was inspired by the very real history of Victorian transatlantic telegraphy and Wildman Whitehouse passing excessive currents through the early cable. Those first transatlantic cables didn't land…

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The genesis of Esprit de Corpse

Series 5 of Listen with Other was a guest contribution from Ray Newman: The Interchange. You can read about it on his excellent blog here. So now a look at the genesis and inspiration of series 6, ESPRIT DE CORPSE. First up, unusually, I did…

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