Posts From 2022

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November 2022
(2022-11-29) A couple more recent puzzle games

reviews, the entropy centre, the case of the golden idol
(2022-11-28) NarraScope 2023: June 9-11, Pittburgh

pittsburgh, narrascope
(2022-11-14) Leviathan launches today on Steam and Itch

4 comments (latest 23 hours later)

itch, unity, jason shiga, meanwhile, cyoa, interactive comics, leviathan, steam
(2022-11-05) Recent narrative games: the old school

3 comments (latest 2023-01-29)

reviews, rusty lake, the past within, adventure games, return to monkey island, one dreamer, the excavation of hob's barrow
(2022-11-01) Leviathan launches on November 14th

jason shiga, meanwhile, leviathan
October 2022
(2022-10-31) Cyan says Riven remake is "in development"

5 comments (latest 2 days later)

starry expanse, cyan, myst, riven
(2022-10-27) Goodbye Twitter

5 comments (latest 11-05)

twitter, elon musk, mastodon, social media
(2022-10-08) Immortality

reviews, ruminations, immortality, sam barlow, her story, database if, telling lies
(2022-10-04) Recent puzzly games: we love The Witness

1 comment (10-25)

reviews, linelith, puzzles, the looker, taiji, the witness, kredolis
September 2022
(2022-09-17) Recent narrative games: summer 2022 edition

reviews, stray, citizen sleeper, i was a teenage exocolonist, house of da vinci
(2022-09-13) Jason Shiga's Leviathan

1 comment (4 days later)

itch, unity, jason shiga, meanwhile, cyoa, interactive comics, leviathan, steam
August 2022
(2022-08-15) Mysterium 2022: The Cyan-adjacent news

huru, mysterium, myst documentary, story vault, myst online, uru, ages, archiving, cyan, myst, philip shane, rand miller, robyn miller
(2022-08-14) Mysterium 2022: The news from Cyan

8 comments (latest 1 day later)

firmament, mysterium, starry expanse, rime, cyan, myst, riven, community projects, eric anderson, hannah gamiel, rand miller
July 2022
(2022-07-25) I am a person who bought a Steam Deck

2 comments (latest 2 days later)

hadean lands, meanwhile, neptune, steampal, consoles, steam, steam deck, valve
(2022-07-10) Severance and the Prisoner of Tomorrow

1 comment (3 days later)

severance, tv, be seeing you, television, the prisoner
June 2022
(2022-06-21) I went to a conference and nobody spread COVID

covid-19, masks, plague, conferences
(2022-06-15) AI ethics questions

2 comments (latest 6 days later)

procgen, ai, ethics, voice synthesis, neural nets
(2022-06-07) Aaron Reed's "50 Years of Text Games" is now crowdfunding

books, aaron reed, history, 50 years of text games, kickstarter
May 2022
(2022-05-31) Cragne Manor source code (some of it)

interactive fiction, ryan veeder, jenni polodna, michael gentry, anchorhead, if, too many authors to list, cragne manor
(2022-05-30) Recent puzzly games: summer 2022 edition

reviews, platonic, skábma snowfall, recursive ruin, sephonie, the inheritance of crimson manor
(2022-05-10) Patricia McKillip (1948-2022)

the changeling sea, the riddle-master of hed, patricia mckillip, the sorceress and the cygnet, fool's run
April 2022
(2022-04-28) Inform 7 open-source release

4 comments (latest 09-05)

inweb, inform 7, literate programming, it looks alive to me
(2022-04-26) Yes, I will quit Twitter

12 comments (latest 22 hours later)

twitter, elon musk, social media, usenet
(2022-04-18) Hey, submit a NarraScope talk

narrascope, call for proposals
(2022-04-16) Is Apple Arcade even a thing any more?

4 comments (latest 05-10)

apple, apple arcade, economics, subscriptions, app store, mobile, ios, iphone
(2022-04-10) Puzzle dossiers and boxes, 2022

puzzles, puzzle boxes, the vandermist dossier, the emerald flame, puzzle dossiers, redl0ck
March 2022
(2022-03-25) SFWA membership is easier to qualify for

interactive fiction, sfwa, professional validation for the win, if
(2022-03-23) Roberta and Ken Williams are making a VR Colossal Cave

6 comments (latest 04-10)

adventure, colossal cave, ken williams, roberta williams, vr, if
(2022-03-15) Recent narrative games: winter 2021 edition

reviews, inua, far changing tides, aspire, conway, spirit of the north, fallow
February 2022
(2022-02-22) These violent delights

4 comments (latest 03-16)

adventure, bugs, code, inform 6, debugging, compilers, violence
(2022-02-19) Shade and Heliopause fall off the iOS App Store

1 comment (straightaway)

apple, glulx, zcode, heliopause, terps, iosfizmo, iosglk, shade, iosglulxe, ios, interpreters
(2022-02-01) Job status update: 2022

3 comments (latest 11-05)

the molasses flood, cd projekt, job, life
January 2022
(2022-01-28) Play-to-harass-to-earn

bite me, blockchain, play-to-earn, axie
(2022-01-20) Way up in the middle of the air

5 comments (latest 02-15)

halos, preservation, sundogs, angels, weather, wayback machine, photos
(2022-01-10) 2022 IGF nominees: fireworks

reviews, inscryption, opus: echo of starsong, igf, tux and fanny, overboard
(2022-01-09) 2022 IGF nominees: miscellaneous

reviews, papetura, strange horticulture, kathy rain, dagon, igf, lacuna, the remainder, sable
(2022-01-08) 2022 IGF nominees: intimate and/or personal

1 comment (2023-01-31)

reviews, no longer home, toem, igf, last call, unpacking, lake, norco, an airport for aliens currently run by dogs
(2022-01-07) 2022 IGF nominees: on history

reviews, inua, the rewinder, blackhaven, igf, closed hands, neurocracy