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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Grief, by Simon Christiansen.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Magic, by Geoff Fortytwo.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is A Date with Death, by David Whyld.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Escape from the Underworld, by Karl Beecher.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Berrost’s Challenge, by Mark Hatfield.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Afflicted, by Doug Egan.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. The next game in my randomized list is Channel Surfing, by Mike Vollmer.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. Today’s game is The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom, by Anssi Räisänen.

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This is a review from the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition. Today’s game is Recess at Last, by Gerald Aungst.

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Bad writing, search engine optimization, games.

• 10 simple things you can do to improve your writing points out some common faults of style.
• How to write badly gives some examples of bad practice in technical writing.
• When is a link an endorsement?, an older but interesting article, discusses different reasons for linking and what each implies about the destination site.
• Advanced website diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools, from the Google Webmaster Blog, introduces Google’s Webmaster Tools and how they can help with SEO.
• The Red Cross has launched an online game, Traces of Hope, whose object is to help a boy displaced by war to find his family.
• Emily Short has assembled a convenient list of blogs reviewing the Interactive Fiction Competition.