A Beauty Cold and Austere

A Beauty Cold and Austere

Update: 2019-08-31
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On this month’s episode of Relatively Prime Samuel Hansen speaks with Professor Mike Spivey from University of Puget Sound about his interactive fiction game A Beauty Cold and Austere. They discuss how interactive fiction and mathematics work together, some of the mathematical puzzles in the game, and just what easter eggs might be hiding within the game.





You can play A Beauty Cold and Austere here.





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Music:
Sepgil
Broke for Free





A Beauty Cold and Austere Voiceover:
Bree Prehn
KT Howard

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