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Posts From 2026

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  • May 2026
  • (2026-05-19) Titanium Court
    11 comments   (latest 22 hours later)
    reviews, titanium court
  • (2026-05-09) That firefighting game I played in Toronto
    6 comments   (latest 05-18)
    toronto, museums, firefighting game, history, ontario place
  • (2026-05-07) Those ZIL grammar flags
    6 comments   (latest 4 days later)
    if, interactive fiction, infocom, zil, parser
  • (2026-05-06) Spring games of the id
    9 comments   (latest 1 day later)
    reviews, puzzle spy international, gecko gods, librarian, tidy up the arcane library, soul reaver, legacy of kain, defiance
  • (2026-05-01) Visible Zork 3 is now available to all
    7 comments   (latest 2 days later)
    if, interactive fiction, zork, zork 3, infocom, visible zorker, patreon, zarf
  • April 2026
  • (2026-04-22) 2026 Hugo Award finalists
    10 comments   (latest 20 hours later)
    hugos, worldcon, awards
  • (2026-04-18) A bunch of games with nothing in common
    8 comments   (latest 5 days later)
    reviews, the seance of blake manor, intelligence, the artisan of glimmith, blippo+, kevin's playing in berlin, planet of lana, legacy of kain, ascendance, soul reaver
  • (2026-04-05) A Cornerstone interpreter and the mu machine
    2 comments   (latest 8 hours later)
    infocom, cornerstone, mu-machine, linchpin, zilf
  • (2026-04-02) The Curse of the Forgotten Adverbs
    10 comments   (latest 13 hours later)
    if, interactive fiction, infocom, zil, deadline, parser, adverbs
  • March 2026
  • (2026-03-28) Ludic Narrans
    zarf, drew davidson, books, interviews, play
  • (2026-03-19) GDC: gloom and haruspicy
    8 comments   (latest 2 days later)
    gdc, conferences
  • (2026-03-17) Visible Zorker: March status report
    8 comments   (latest 3 days later)
    if, interactive fiction, zork, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon, zork 3, deadline
  • (2026-03-16) Twine and Zork at GDC
    10 comments   (latest 04-02)
    zarf, gdc, iftf, if, interactive fiction, conferences, twine, zork, visible zorker, patreon
  • (2026-03-04) The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
    3 comments   (latest 5 days later)
    zarf, jon ingold, books, narrative, game design, game narrative kaleidoscope
  • February 2026
  • (2026-02-24) 1989 in context
    5 comments   (latest 03-19)
    if, interactive fiction, infocom, zil, steve meretzky
  • (2026-02-14) Visible Zorker: status report
    if, interactive fiction, zork, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon, zork 3
  • (2026-02-13) GDC plans, 2026
    3 comments   (latest straightaway)
    zarf, gdc, iftf, if, interactive fiction, conferences
  • (2026-02-10) When is a bug not a bug?
    7 comments   (latest 14 hours later)
    if, interactive fiction, zork, z-machine, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon
  • (2026-02-08) To fight a troll
    if, interactive fiction, zork, combat, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon
  • (2026-02-07) The Beacon is lit
    2 comments   (latest 7 days later)
    zarf, art, beacon, leds, pixelblaze
  • January 2026
  • (2026-01-27) Chronological order
    3 comments   (latest 19 hours later)
    if, interactive fiction, zork, starcross, deadline, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon
  • (2026-01-26) The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon)
    10 comments   (latest 24 hours later)
    if, interactive fiction, zork, infocom, zil, zarf, visible zorker, patreon
  • (2026-01-09) 2026 IGF nominees
    igf, reviews, arctic awakening, promise mascot agency, the haunting of joni evers, carceri, prší, kid cosmo, and roger, jane
  • (2026-01-05) The Visible Zorker 2
    if, interactive fiction, zork, zork 2, infocom, zil, visible zorker, zarf
  • (2026-01-03) NarraScope is open for submissions
    narrascope, albany

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