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Editorial team

Exciting Press Review Editorial Team

Editorial team · Covers: Interactive fiction structure, Gamebook formats, Text game history

All articles on Exciting Press Review are published under the editorial team’s byline. The team selects the subject of each article.

What the team covers

  • Branching structure: nodes, links, loops, gating and endings, and how to diagram them.
  • Saving and re-reading: what a save file does to hidden state, and how undo and checkpoints behave.
  • Tools and formats: authoring environments and the standards they export to.
  • History: how gamebooks and text adventures were published, documented from primary sources.

How articles are produced

Articles are drafted with generative AI from an outline and list their sources — a publisher’s documentation, a tool manual, a standard, or an archive record. Before an article is scheduled, the site owner reads it and approves its scope and sources; articles are not edited line by line. A separate review compares articles with their sources, and an article in which that review finds an error is taken off the site until it is corrected. The full procedure is on the editorial policy page.

Each article records, at its foot, whether AI assisted the draft and what the current review state is.

Contact

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