It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.
Tools like Twine have made it easier than ever to make interactive text-based games. But while they can be simple to make, that doesn’t make it any easier to tell an engaging story. As a writer, you have nowhere to hide: there aren’t graphical avatars for the player to control or music and voice acting to help tell the story. It’s just words and hyperlinks. Despite that, games like Lionkiller show just how engaging and powerful interactive fiction can be — even if they only have words to work with.
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Liton Das struck his second one-day international century to set up a crushing 169-run win for Bangladesh in the first ODI against Zimbabwe in Sylhet on Sunday.
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Ishan Porel and Anustup Majumdar played pivotal roles as Bengal pushed Karnataka on the backfoot while Saurashtra put up a solid show against Gujarat as the second day of the Ranji Trophy 2019-20 semifinals came to an end.
If the handling of Wriddhiman Saha and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the past wasn't bad enough, Ishant Sharma breaking down after the first Test against New Zealand has once again raised eyebrows on the process followed at the National Cricket Academy
Boult had figures of 3 for 12 as India were reduced to 90 for six in their second innings for an overall lead of 97 runs at the end of the second day.
Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami took seven wickets between them to bowl out New Zealand for 235 only for India to lose six wickets in the final session.
If England beat the West Indies later Sunday, they will join them in the last four.
The Hadlee Sports Facility, to be built at the Hagley Oval, is the trust's second project, after the Hadlee Pavilion.
Trent Boult had New Zealand in firm control of the second Test after a ball-dominated day two saw India cling to a 97-run lead with only four wickets remaining.
The BCCI media team issued a release after 24 hours which didn't state anything other than what the covering media already knew.
Perry missed Australia's main training session here on Sunday afternoon.
Ravindra Jadeja's stunning catch was the highlight at tea on day two of the second Test here at the Hagley Oval on Sunday as India bowled New Zealand out for 235, taking a slender lead of seven runs.
