Rosenbaum’s Game

Choice of Games published Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ghost and the Golem, a “450,000-word Jewish histori­cal fantasy interactive fiction,” in August 2024. Rosenbaum calls it “kind of a magnum opus,” and explains, “Unlike a game which is graphics and fight mechanics with some story crammed in here and there, these games are purely a bunch of fictional narrative words: you do make choices, but the output, after having made those choices, is effectively a novel that you, well, read.” Choice of Games has published numerous “interactive novels” by authors including Max Gladstone, Rosemary Claire Smith, Kate Heartfield, and more. Seven of their titles have been nomi­nated for Nebula Awards from 2018-2023. For more about Rosenbaum’s game, see the website.

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