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Jason Dyer<p>in which I embark on an atmospheric text adventure from Dan Kitchen's early days, Crystal Caverns</p><p>(Dan Kitchen went on to be one of the original Activision programmers with games like Ghostbusters and River Raid II)</p><p>includes some early history of electronic LCD games</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/11/crystal-caverns-1982/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/03/11/crys</span><span class="invisible">tal-caverns-1982/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>videogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textadventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/appleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appleII</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari2600</span></a></p>
jmac<p>Some words by me on "Type Help", the phenomenal new investigation game by William Rous: <a href="https://fogknife.com/2025-03-10-i-played-type-help.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fogknife.com/2025-03-10-i-play</span><span class="invisible">ed-type-help.html</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
Konrad M. Lawson<p>I just finished and very much enjoyed Nick Montfort’s “Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction” (2003) and next will read “IF Theory Reader” (2011). Anyone have other recommendations for more on IF, perhaps for use in education contexts? <br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textadventure</span></a></p>
Drew Cook: Gold Machine<p>Spring Thing 2025 seeks prize donors!</p><p>Alternately, come play some games next month. That's a great way to support the festival.</p><p><a href="https://www.springthing.net/2025/prizes.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">springthing.net/2025/prizes.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/springthing2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>springthing2025</span></a></p>
Fractal Kitty<p>Ok - a short interactive fiction with a possible mostly truthful ending is done. </p><p>HTML and css only. </p><p>Dedicated to Billy Bob (my childhood friend)</p><p><a href="https://www.streamof.me/LostSignal/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">streamof.me/LostSignal/index.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p><p>This is part of an RC gameJam.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/interactiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/recurseCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recurseCenter</span></a></p>
Eric Matthew Richardson<p>“Dexter’s Song” from The LEA Project, an online, interactive musical.</p><p>Still available to experience at leaproject.dev for free!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/musicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musicals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theatre</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/TtWb8-bRitg?si=h6gFaKE3Ogwft-QH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/TtWb8-bRitg?si=h6gFaK</span><span class="invisible">E3Ogwft-QH</span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>my assault on Keys of the Wizard continues as I investigate combat and give a tour of the map</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/02/keys-of-the-wizard-total-exhaustion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/03/02/keys</span><span class="invisible">-of-the-wizard-total-exhaustion/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>videogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textadventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/tandycoco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tandycoco</span></a></p>
root42<p>As we are currently stuck due to technical difficulties with Wonderland, we switch to a different Magnetic Scrolls game: The Pawn. <br>It is a humorous, weird fantasy text adventure set in the mythical kingdom of Kerovnia. <br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/magneticscrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magneticscrolls</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p>
Michael Coorlim<p>‪I'm going to be posting <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactiveFiction</span></a> games each month, distributed through my mailing list. Here's the download link for the first game, Zeitgeist 1980, a game inspired by 80s action comedy movies.</p><p>If you try it and like it, consider signing up for the list.</p><p><a href="https://mcoorlim.com/newsletter/monthly-if-zeitgeist-1980/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mcoorlim.com/newsletter/monthl</span><span class="invisible">y-if-zeitgeist-1980/</span></a></p>
Andrew Plotkin<p>Posted my thoughts about the "Ink Console" that we heard about this week. Including the change of direction they announced on social media last night!</p><p><a href="https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-ink-console" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-</span><span class="invisible">ink-console</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 🌨<p>My favorite new technology is not new. It's a natural-language game engine for creating text-based interactive stories. (Inform 7) </p><p>The latest version was released in 2022. This excellent and completely usable book was published in 2011. The game engine was created in 2006, as a rebuild of a project which was introduced when I was still getting carded for cigarettes (1993).</p><p>This is a good and appropriate pace for technology. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inform7</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a></p>
Jeff Sikes<p>I'm interested in finding retro (or not) games that are interactive fiction. Not Zork. Not Portal (one of my faves tho). Not Myst exactly. The game should be basically Choose Your Own Adventure with images and sound of some kind. Where do I begin the search for this? Should I be looking on iOS?</p><p>I looked here but most of these are Zorky.</p><p><a href="https://ifdb.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ifdb.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Games</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retro</span></a></p>
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Christopher Drum<p>Status Line, a z-machine that plays retro and modern text adventure classics (Zork! Lost Pig!), has been updated to version 3.0.</p><p>z5 and z8 support opens a broad world of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> within the cozy atmosphere of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pico8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pico8</span></a>. Games up to 512K, new fonts, timed input, full EGA color support, and more!<br><a href="https://christopherdrum.itch.io/statusline" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">christopherdrum.itch.io/status</span><span class="invisible">line</span></a></p><p>----</p><p>Curses, Border Zone, Sherlock, and Solid Gold Infocom titles, modified from source to look beautiful in Status Line, are also available.<br><a href="https://github.com/ChristopherDrum/status-line-classics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ChristopherDrum/sta</span><span class="invisible">tus-line-classics</span></a></p><p>----</p><p>Lastly, an offline web utility to split large z8 games (up to 512K!) into Status Line compatible game files is also released.<br><a href="https://christopherdrum.itch.io/statusline-split" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">christopherdrum.itch.io/status</span><span class="invisible">line-split</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pico8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pico8</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>For today's game I embark on Kim-Venture, a highly unusual adventure game on the KIM-1, a system with a "calculator display" that could only display six characters at a time and had a ludicrously small memory capacity.</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/02/10/kim-venture-1979/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/02/10/kim-</span><span class="invisible">venture-1979/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>videogames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textadventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
jmac<p>I was 22 hours into Roadwarden before I realized that when you're presented with the "What tone do you want to reply in?" menu, you can click through all of the tone-icons (🤝/😁/😐/✊/😢) to preview what you’d say. I‘ve been assuming that you were committed to the first symbol you clicked!</p><p>Roadwarden's an absolutely stupendous work of modern <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a>, by the way. If you're into RPGs and text-driven games, I can't recommend it enough. Wants a mouse and keyboard but it's OK on <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a>.</p>
Andrew Plotkin<p>Jason Shiga's _The Beyond_ is out for iPhone/iPad!</p><p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-beyond-interactive-comic/id6738063234" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apps.apple.com/us/app/the-beyo</span><span class="invisible">nd-interactive-comic/id6738063234</span></a></p><p>My notes: <a href="https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-beyond-for-ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-</span><span class="invisible">beyond-for-ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon<p>The 2024 IFDB Awards are open and I am delighted to discover that my game, Voyage of the Marigold, is in the Outstanding Science Fiction Game of 2024 category.</p><p>It probably won’t win but I worked very hard on a slightly unusual <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> game that I am glad a few people seemed to enjoy.</p><p>Competition page:<br><a href="https://ifdb.org/poll?id=dvl0diu5lm3vjlml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifdb.org/poll?id=dvl0diu5lm3vj</span><span class="invisible">lml</span></a></p><p>Play the game:<br><a href="https://sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_marigold/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_mari</span><span class="invisible">gold/</span></a></p>
Sarah Willson<p>The 2024 IFDB Awards are now open for voting! I didn't write much <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> in 2024 aside from Moondrop Isle, but I do enjoy revisiting all the great games from the previous year. </p><p>My favorite part is waiting until the winners are announced and then playing all the nominees for Outstanding Underappreciated Game, because each one meant something to someone. <br><a href="https://ifdb.org/poll?id=30efo724i985m7jf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifdb.org/poll?id=30efo724i985m</span><span class="invisible">7jf</span></a></p>
Aaron A. Reed<p>Had a great time speaking (remotely) at the London Interactive Fiction Meetup last week about 50 Years of Text games and <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> : <a href="https://youtu.be/YpoBEgyIPHI?si=7M2nTE5DeJ4_Tvfc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/YpoBEgyIPHI?si=7M2nTE</span><span class="invisible">5DeJ4_Tvfc</span></a></p>
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