So the batteries in my #psion3a ran empty. This was the opportunity to ditch Tristam Island for now. The inventory mechanics were a little too annoying for me. So… how about a classic? Bronze by Emily Short. It is slow as molasses, because it’s written in Inform7, but still works fine. Even got the compass rose in the upper right corner! #interactivefiction
I had the pleasure of helping test this new strange work directed and edited by @rcveeder. It is a quilt of small parser-IF games by many individual authors stitched together at the edges, with the player (and their inventory!) able to traverse freely between them, making one large space to explore. #InteractiveFiction https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@nilsf/112524852506128389
For the Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction, nine of us got together and wrote an entire huge, mysterious, funny, beautiful island in text adventure form. Welcome to Moondrop Isle:
more hilariously good TRS-80 software from the archive
Bedlam puts you in the role of a patient in a mental facility whose only goal is to escape
having worked in a psychiatric hospital in a previous life, i can confirm that (a) this is a rather uncharitable view of hospitals and their patients, and (b) 🤣
the answer/interpretive key for the mental health exam: classic!
The sound design and graphical arrangement is minimal, the (often randomly chosen) texts are written greatly – they are highly poetic, beautiful, fey ...In „A row of chairs abandoned on the beach“, humans do consequently become coast, night, and sky – but the world is turned into a living, equitable, and vivid instance in return.
Congratulations to the two Best in Show ribbon winners, @autumn for Social Democracy: An Alternate History and Agnieszka Trzaska for The Trials of Rosalinda.
You can play both of these, plus all the other games (including mine) here:
My #TheSundayStarter was a little bit something different this morning.
When I went into my Fediverse account, I saw that @puka_muriska followed me so I went to take a look at their account and went down the rabbit hole of their interactive zine.
Found this interesting series of blog posts about fallthru, a text adventure game I tried playing for the first time I think in 1999. I've never had the patience to get very far in it because it's literally huge, but I've often wondered what it would be like if I did.
Now I don't have to, since this person completed it and went into quite a lot of detail about it.
Note that most of the in game text is shown in screenshots with no alt text.
Nice to see that Michael feir and the Audyssey magazine got a mention because that was pretty much the only place I saw anything about it before this, and I forgot that he interviewed the developer. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/Fallthru #InteractiveFiction#RPG#textAdventure
It’s May over at @rmcretro and this month has #infocom Suspended. Our copy is missing one of the playing pieces, but is otherwise complete. Haven’t played it yet, but it’s on my bucket list! #interactivefiction#retrogaming
The-Man-Without-Eyes is a mighty messenger of the beings which are beyond gods. You can make a pact with him to empower Your Dark Lord, but what will be the prize?
This is character from my free, narrative-driven game: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion where You play as the Dark Lord/Lady conquering/destroying the world.
This week we’re reading "Mountain Survival" during #StorytimeWithSteve, book #28 in the original #ChooseYourOwnAdventure series. Bonus is that I’m reading it from a special library edition, which makes it a hardcover! You just know the story is better because the cover won’t bend! 🙂
In case you missed it, I've released a companion book to "50 Years of Text Games!" Featuring chapters on fan favorite text games like Planetfall and A Dark Room, deep dives into neat microgenres like type-in books or one-room games, and a detailed timeline of #InteractiveFiction history. I've just posted a quick video tour of the book if you're curious what's inside! https://youtu.be/PaeOVCCIFfg#retrogaming#retrocomputing
At a loose end and not sure what kind of project to take up. Should I write another novel? Start a web serial? Write some #interactiveFiction? An action RPG or sim game in #godotEngine? Videos on video game history? A #ttrpg
campaign book?
I need a side project now that I have a day job, to keep me moving, keep me creative.