The Mary Jane of Tomorrow

As a prize for IF Comp 2015, Emily Short wrote a short interactive fiction piece called The Mary Jane of Tomorrow as a fanfic for Steph Cherrywell’s Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! In it, you try to train a robot to get a particular set of skills without picking up bad habits (like emo beat poetry). 

There’s a lot of procedurally generated text in it, building on some of the things Emily Short developed for Annals of the Parrigues. Including four different kinds of poetry and a recipe generator.

(There’s some behind-the-scenes spoiler-filled notes on Emily Short’s blog, but you’ll probably want to play the game first.)