Posts From 2020

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December 2020
(2020-12-18) Twitter makes it harder to read tweets

4 comments (latest 23 hours later)

twitter, curl, web services, apis
(2020-12-08) Reading Myst for detail

5 comments (latest 2021-03-07)

chronology, vr, cyan, myst
(2020-12-01) The loss of Arecibo Observatory

arecibo, radiotelescope, science, astronomy, danny dunn
November 2020
(2020-11-24) Puzzle games of the year: my favorites

3 comments (latest 7 days later)

reviews, puzzles, design, a monster's expedition, filament
(2020-11-23) A shut-in-year's worth of puzzle games

reviews, relicta, puzzles, arise, phantom path, lightmatter, weakless, ethereal, zof, etherborn, lumote, creaks, design, lumina, sensorium, pedestrian
September 2020
(2020-09-30) Tour Bibliotekh

blaseball, italo calvino, zarf, books, browsing simulators, walking simulators, interactive fiction, shoe thieves, if, game jam
(2020-09-23) Boosting some current Kickstarters

romancelvania, club drosselmeyer, indiecade, kickstarter
(2020-09-16) Myst VR teaser drops

5 comments (latest 3 days later)

vr, cyan, myst
(2020-09-12) Recent additions to my Infocom collection

2 comments (latest 4 days later)

zcode, infocom, zork, interactive fiction, zil, if
August 2020
(2020-08-22) Hadean Lands: minor update

1 comment (7 days later)

humble, itch, hadean lands, interactive fiction, steam, if
(2020-08-21) Fan-built Ages in Myst Online

2 comments (latest 4 hours later)

rss, myst online, doobes, uru, guild of writers, cyan, myst
(2020-08-16) The parser and the Myst plot hole

23 comments (latest 2021-03-07)

parser, text games, interactive fiction, mistakes, inventory, if, myst
(2020-08-06) Mysterium starts Friday, online

philip shane, mysterium, cyan, myst, documentary, kickstarter
July 2020
(2020-07-28) Trademarking Infocom, again, part two

13 comments (latest 11-08)

zcode, zork, infocom, interactive fiction, zap, reverse-engineering, trademarks, zil, if
(2020-07-27) Trademarking Infocom, again, part one

4 comments (latest 1 day later)

zcode, smartmonsters, muds, zork, infocom, interactive fiction, trademarks, zil, if
(2020-07-14) Myst documentary kickstarter

firmament, philip shane, cyan, myst, documentary, kickstarter
(2020-07-02) Followup on Apple Arcade

apple, apple arcade, indiepocalypse, economics, subscriptions, mobile, iphone
May 2020
(2020-05-27) NarraScope starts tomorrow

twitch, narrascope, interactive fiction, if, iftf
(2020-05-24) Subcutanean and variations thereof

3 comments (latest 07-17)

reviews, books, horror, procgen, narrative, aaron reed, subcutanean
(2020-05-22) Compiling for the Z-machine version 3

7 comments (latest 07-06)

z-machine, inform 6, interactive fiction, if
April 2020
(2020-04-28) Historical rediscovery: Zarf's Old Time Religion search

praser 5, web, interactive fiction, old time religion, filk, if
(2020-04-15) Myst TV tidbit: A writer signs on

delve films, tv, village roadshow, cyan, myst
March 2020
(2020-03-22) Plague and the stories we tell

5 comments (latest 2022-05-29)

science fiction, covid-19, aids, plague
February 2020
(2020-02-29) Advent Door: a very small IF puzzle

zarf, interactive fiction, inform 7, if, advent door
(2020-02-19) Randomness with temperature

softmax, random, python, storylets, temperature, math, algorithms
(2020-02-10) Numinous/Cyan announces Area Man Lives

1 comment (2 days later)

area man lives, numinous games, cyan ventures, untethered, vr
(2020-02-06) Kentucky Route Zero: quick thoughts

reviews, ruminations, pacing, interactive fiction, kentucky route zero, if, episodic games, tuckerization
January 2020
(2020-01-22) Meanwhile 1.1.0 on Steam, Itch, and Mac App Store

itch, unity, app store, jason shiga, meanwhile, steam, macos
(2020-01-14) 2020 IGF nominees: adventure plus

reviews, heaven's vault, over the alps, observation, sunless skies, igf, jenny leclue, afterparty, mutazione
(2020-01-13) 2020 IGF nominees: interactive storybooks

reviews, alt-frequencies, arrog, song of bloom, igf
(2020-01-12) 2020 IGF nominees: topical games

reviews, american election, eliza, forgotten, igf, adventures with anxiety
(2020-01-11) 2020 IGF nominees: puzzles

reviews, manifold garden, kine, igf, alucinod, the sojourn
(2020-01-09) 2020 IGF nominees: Shakespeare

reviews, elsinore, igf, astrologaster
(2020-01-08) 2020 IGF nominees: hit and miss

reviews, ord, darq, divination, anodyne 2, igf, lionkiller
(2020-01-07) 2020 IGF nominees: a good mood

reviews, a short hike, we met in may, eastshade, igf, wide ocean big jacket
(2020-01-01) IosGlk, IosGlulxe, and IosFizmo are out of support

3 comments (latest 2 days later)

apple, glulx, zcode, terps, iosglk, iosfizmo, iosglulxe, ios, interpreters, backwards compatibility