Interactive fiction is a thriving genre, but its commercial heyday is long gone. Here’s Leigh Alexander on how Kickstarter could usher in text adventures’ long-overdue renaissance: “There’s more than just nostalgia contributing to a potential revival for interactive stories. A broader gaming audience means appetites for game forms we might have once called “casual” in another time — and furthermore, the popularity of tablets and e-readers means there’s a real appetite for game forms that take advantage of a culture now habituated to reading on luminous screens in ways prior generations were widely not. [Gamasutra]