Posts From 2023

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December 2023
(2023-12-17) On browsing

12 comments (latest 3 hours later)

apple, itunes, ui, tv, books, search
(2023-12-01) A few narrative game comments

reviews, jusant, the invincible
November 2023
(2023-11-21) All that Infocom interpreter code

13 comments (latest 11 hours later)

infocom, if, interactive fiction, zcode, interpreters, z-machine, source, assembly
(2023-11-01) Forty years of wizardry

10 comments (latest 12 hours later)

diane duane, daniel pinkwater, eblong, yobgorgle, young wizards, books
October 2023
(2023-10-13) Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea

61 comments (latest 10-29)

microsoft, activision, monopolies, infocom, history, preservation
(2023-10-11) Summer game wowzers: ruminations

reviews, ruminations, the cosmic wheel sisterhood, stray gods, cocoon
September 2023
(2023-09-25) Unity followup

2 comments (latest 2 days later)

unity, enshittification
(2023-09-14) A quick note about Unity, plus a surprise

9 comments (latest 2 days later)

unity, steam, enshittification, meanwhile, leviathan, the beyond, jason shiga
(2023-09-10) Summer even more miscellaneous puzzle games

6 comments (latest 7 days later)

reviews, verne: the shape of fantasy, void stranger, chants of sennaar, obsidian, the case of the golden idol, the lemurian vampire
(2023-09-07) Canon is kayfabe for writers

23 comments (latest 4 days later)

canon, kayfabe, star trek, star wars, doctor who, myst
(2023-09-05) I wrote a will

5 comments (latest 10 hours later)

will, law, inheritance, death, nolo, john m ford, the westing game
August 2023
(2023-08-25) The myth of Google's plus

29 comments (latest 17 hours later)

google, search, plus, google+, quotes, history
(2023-08-02) A kitchen is born

25 comments (latest 19 hours later)

art, kitchen, mosaic, diane duane
July 2023
(2023-07-31) Summer miscellanous puzzle and narrative games

reviews, oxenfree 2, a long journey to an uncertain end, viewfinder, can of wormholes
(2023-07-23) Invention in Rust

forth, rust, postim, the moon, image filters, programming, bach, paul lutus, douglas hofstadter
(2023-07-08) Upcoming online discussion: Collecting narrative games

1 comment (07-31)

if, interactive fiction, archiving, libraries, ifarchive, ifdb, colin post
(2023-07-07) Thinking about Seltani again

12 comments (latest 1 day later)

seltani, myst online, tworld, mysterium, twine, muds, interactive fiction, if, multiplayer if
(2023-07-03) Mysterium 2023

7 comments (latest 07-20)

mysterium, myst, riven, cyan, firmament, vghf, philip shane, shoomlah, claire hummel, deater, vince weaver, rium+, mike ando, doobes, patrick dulebohn, rand miller, richard vander wende, eric anderson, hannah gamiel, phil salvador, lego, myst online, spokane
(2023-07-01) An Adventure walkthrough, with bugs

3 comments (latest 10-21)

inform, adventure, colossal cave, glulxe, testing, regtest, design, endings, xyzzy, plugh
June 2023
(2023-06-29) Welcome to the new blog, very nearly identical to the old blog

9 comments (latest 07-17)

zarf, zarfhome, blog, blogger, bloggor, gameshelf, python, mastodon, static site generators
(2023-06-01) Firmament: design and business ruminations

5 comments (latest 06-29)

firmament, cyan, game design, game publishing, ui, adventure games, reviews, ruminations
May 2023
(2023-05-30) A few notes on notes on Disco Elysium

2 comments (latest 06-13)

disco elysium, za/um, robert kurvitz, people make games, sacred and terrible air, faction paradox, doctor who, the molasses flood, collaboration, creativity
(2023-05-18) Narrative games that I wrote about but forgot to post

3 comments (latest 05-30)

reviews, pentiment, dredge, tron, tron identity, the last case of benedict fox
(2023-05-14) Sydney obeys any command that rhymes

prompt engineering, security, llms, ai
(2023-05-11) Job status update: looking again

job hunting, job, life
(2023-05-02) Kalamee: a Myst Online Intangibles Age

intangibles, kalamee, eder bahvahnter, myst online, guild of archivists, cyan, myst, ryan warzecha, greydragon
April 2023
(2023-04-25) USB-C and the plague of grackles

3 comments (latest 17 hours later)

cables, usb, grackles, specifications
(2023-04-01) Hadean Lands source code

1 comment (1 day later)

hadean lands, source code, interactive fiction, archiving, if
March 2023
(2023-03-23) I'm giving a talk next week at Northeastern

zarf, northeastern, lecture, if, game design
(2023-03-16) April 1 is IF Source Code Amnesty Day

4 comments (latest 2 days later)

hadean lands, source code, interactive fiction, archiving, if
(2023-03-03) Portney's Earthshapes

earthshapes, joseph portney
February 2023
(2023-02-06) A treasury of Zork maps

7 comments (latest 03-21)

zork users group, maps, infocom, david ardito, pier giovanni binotti, dungeon, cart00nlion, dave lebling, zork, ion_bond, keith orlando, steven roy, patrick vincent
January 2023
(2023-01-31) 2023 IGF nominees: mind dot dot dot blown

reviews, immortality, igf, tunic, norco
(2023-01-30) 2023 IGF nominees: wildly miscellaneous

1 comment (2 days later)

reviews, gnosia, igf, case of the golden idol, the forest quartet, queer man peering into a rock pool
(2023-01-29) Colossal Cave (2023)

12 comments (latest 2024-07-09)

reviews, ruminations, adventure, colossal cave, ken williams, roberta williams, will crowther, vr, if, don woods
(2023-01-28) 2023 IGF nominees: the personal

reviews, atuel, igf, of moons and mania, he fucked the girl out of me
(2023-01-27) 2023 IGF nominees: good old adventures

reviews, rusty lake, the past within, return to monkey island, the excavation of hobs barrow, igf, ib, beacon pines, backfirewall_
(2023-01-26) 2023 IGF nominees: visual novels

reviews, butterfly soup 2, igf, the wreck, eternal threads
(2023-01-25) 2023 IGF nominees: the RPG bonanza

reviews, betrayal at club low, citizen sleeper, the pale beyond, igf, roadwarden, teenage exocolonist
(2023-01-04) And the misty brakefern way

5 comments (latest 10 hours later)

archie fisher, witch of the westmorland, stan rogers, music, pamela dean, the waybacks, owlswater, west-mer-lands