Interactive Media for Occult Book Makers

Presentation Slide

Here is one called the Infotater, made for the 1984 interactive fiction title, Sorcerer, by Infocom. We’ll talk more about interactive fiction in a while. The Infotater displayed information about some of the monsters found in the story, and also associated each monster with a five-character color code, one of which was the key to opening a trunk in the game, thus making the Infotater a clever copyright protection device.

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4 Replies to “Interactive Media for Occult Book Makers”

  1. Hi HyperRitual,
    excellent presentation so far. I think that the figure from Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda’s Encyclopaedia Mythologica volume, Dragons & Monsters, is the Medusa and not the Sphinx. I’m not 100% certain about this, but I can deduct it from her snakey hair.
    Keep up with the great work,
    Plethon.

      1. Right, I get it now, thank you for pointing it out. I have finished watching the slide show and I find it brilliant. It does motivate to go out and start doing, creating, interacting… Please produce more work like this, we’re so thirsty for this kind of quality.

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