{"id":360,"date":"2014-04-04T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T01:11:09","slug":"the-ascent-of-the-gothic-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/04\/the-ascent-of-the-gothic-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascent of the Gothic Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361 aligncenter\" alt=\"Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cover-300x300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cover-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cover-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cover.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/storybundle.com\" target=\"_blank\">StoryBundle<\/a>\u00a0features a selection of books about video games that will interest you, as well as a sub-bundle of text adventures I wrote!\u00a0<em>The Gothic Tower &amp; Assorted Interactive Fiction<\/em> includes a few games you can play over here at this website, but critically it includes\u00a0<strong><em>The Ascent of the Go<\/em><em>thic<\/em> Tower<\/strong>, which was commissioned by Simon Carless specifically for this StoryBundle.<\/p>\n<p>One of the other games, titled\u00a0<em>So, You&#8217;ve Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?,\u00a0<\/em>was first released in this bundle but is available for free as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/rcveeder.net\/if\/tutorial\/play.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can play it online even.<\/a>\u00a0I recommend it to anyone who has never played a text adventure before.<\/p>\n<p>The bundle also <em>also<\/em>\u00a0includes the ebook of\u00a0<em>&#8220;MOTORCYCLUS&#8221; and Other Extremely Scary Stories&#8221;<\/em>! Functionally what is going on here is you can pay any amount you wish\u2014the minimum of three dollars, if you want\u2014for my book of scary stories.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Oh, no. What have I done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new StoryBundle\u00a0features a selection of books about video games that will interest you, as well as a sub-bundle of text adventures I wrote!\u00a0The Gothic Tower &amp; Assorted Interactive Fiction includes a few games you can play over here at this website, but critically it includes\u00a0The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, which was commissioned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-adventures","category-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rcveeder.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}