Congratulations to all the entrants in this year’s Interactive Fiction Competition, the 25th year it has been run (which also deserves congratulations). No matter where people placed, finishing and entering a game into a competition is laudable. So many hard drives and cloud drives are littered with unfinished games (my own included). There were 82 […]

In Planescape: Torment [1], you play a scarred immortal searching a fantastical metropolis for the truth about your identity. You’ve forgotten everything about yourself, including your name. If you lie to enough people and give them the false name “Adahn,” the city, empowered by the strong belief that an individual with this name exists, spontaneously generates a […]

Jei D. Marcade is a Korean-American speculative fiction writer whose work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, and Strange Horizons. They can be found haunting jeidmarcade.com or tweeting sporadically @JeiDMarcade. This interview was conducted over e-mail in November of 2019. sub-Q Magazine: You write short stories as well as fiction of the interactive variety. Do […]

Astrid Dalmady is a venezuelan writer and narrative designer. You can find her work at AstridDalmady.com. Astrid is the author of Night Guard / Morning Star from our November issue, which was first published in 2019’s IFComp. This interview was conducted over e-mail in November of 2019. Sub-Q Magazine: What interests you the most about […]