Me in the media

Friday, December 6, 2024

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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.


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