{"id":6241,"date":"2018-10-09T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2018-10-09T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:20:30","slug":"birmingham-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/10\/09\/birmingham-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up for an award from the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, in the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/ifcomp.org\/ballot\">Interactive Fiction Competition<\/a>, Peter Emery&#8217;s &#8220;Birmingham IV&#8221; (2018).  Available for free download&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A solitary scholar ventures abroad in a dream state, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself.   He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark forests, steeped in the blood of Celt, Saxon, Viking and Norman, where paganism never really went away &mdash; the West Midlands. &#8220;Birmingham IV&#8221; tells the story of what happened next. A big, puzzle-based adventure &#8230; Longer than two hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/bham1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/bham1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up for an award from the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, in the 2018 Interactive Fiction Competition, Peter Emery&#8217;s &#8220;Birmingham IV&#8221; (2018). Available for free download&#8230; &#8220;A solitary scholar ventures abroad in a dream state, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself. He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}