Me in the media
Friday, December 6, 2024
Comments: 10 (latest 1 day later)
Tagged: zarf, if, interactive fiction, topic lords, digital antiquarian
I guess it's not "the" media any more, it's just media. Anyhow!
I recently guested on Topic Lords, Jim Stormdancer's podcast about topics. Along with Ben Wilson, I am featured in episode 266: "Voronoi Cookies". (My title drop, may I say.) A very random conversation, as is the podcast's brief.
Baking; leaving crosswords on the street; a year isn't 52.0 weeks; Leila Chatti; fidgeting in Zoom; Things of Science.
Less random: A Conversation with Andrew Plotkin on The Digital Antiquarian!
Jimmy Maher has been running through the early history of videogames in intensely-researched detail for, oh, let's not say how many years. Of course many of his early posts were about interactive fiction, but now he's up to the mid-1990s so Infocom is gone and graphical adventures are trailing off.
But guess what happened in the mid-1990s? IFComp! And then my years as a hot young IF auteur. That's what the article is about. Runs from my early encounter with Adventure to the present (NarraScope, etc).
And yes, this is the interview where I admit that I skipped Plundered Hearts on launch because it looked girly. (I played it when the LTOI collection came out.)
Enjoy.
Comments from Mastodon
@zarfeblong I remember that version of you! Actually, that's still the you that pops into my mind because we've not seen each other in ages. 😄
@timberwraith That was a _bit_ before we met. But I guess at this point it's all a haze of "we were so smol back then". :)
@zarfeblong happened to me, I gave up around "White Dragon" or whatever was the real title of that one.
By the way, I dug through my photo folder for image fodder for Jimmy's post. I didn't pass this one along because it's not IF-relevant, but here's me in 1992 -- I suspect I was home for the holidays shortly after graduating from college.
Note that I am reading the Iain M. Banks rather than the Anne McCaffrey. I had nothing against McCaffrey as an author but I had definitely given up on the (massively overextended) Pern series by then.