Space Hobo<p>The libertine thread of disco-era sci-fi shines through in this <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/Asimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asimov</span></a>-inspired text adventure, for better and/or worse! <br><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3ltgbuftmi224" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app</span><span class="invisible">/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3ltgbuftmi224</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
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root42<p>Of course there are a lot of coffins. But so far nothing interesting. <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/diekathedrale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diekathedrale</span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>In my grand finale to The Dark Crystal, events start to hew closer to the movie, with unfortunate side effects.</p><p>This would set the stage for the creation of King's Quest, with a demo version in stores later that same year, and a full release in May of 1984.</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/06/the-dark-crystal-a-thousand-years-of-solitude/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/07/06/the-</span><span class="invisible">dark-crystal-a-thousand-years-of-solitude/</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/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregame</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/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/darkcrystal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkcrystal</span></a></p>
Space Hobo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@profoundlynerdy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>profoundlynerdy</span></a></span> This sounds an awful lot like Redhawk, which the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/retroadventurers.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>retroadventurers.bsky.social</span></a></span> covered in episode 22: <a href="https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/22/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retroadventurers.podbean.com/e</span><span class="invisible">/22/</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
root42<p>Ok, we gave in and had a look at a German walkthrough. To be precise: ASM Special issue 15, which I actually owned as a kid! It is since long lost, copies float around the web! So you REALLY have to examine and search EVERYTHING. And I mean literally EVERYTHING. And you CAN‘T solve the game using the mouse interface alone. Which is a huge NO NO in my books. The verb we needed was TURN, and it is NOT in the icons. Then what’s the use of icons anyhow?<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/diekathedrale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diekathedrale</span></a></p>
IFComp<p>And we're officially kicking off the 2025 Edition of the IFComp!</p><p>From now until August 1st, you can submit your authorial intent!</p><p>Come show off the best of your best!</p><p><a href="https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/788067590629146624/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ifcomp.org/post/788067590</span><span class="invisible">629146624/</span></a><br><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/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ifcomp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ifcomp2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefictioncompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefictioncompetition</span></a></p>
foo ✅<p>I thought about entering this contest, but I'm not a professional artist with a portfolio and all that. So, I just used it as an art prompt. Made with Sketchup 2017 and MakeHuman</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/@IFComp@mastodon.gamedev.place/114630494584386978" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.online/@IFComp@mastod</span><span class="invisible">on.gamedev.place/114630494584386978</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sketchup3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sketchup3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sketchup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sketchup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/3dart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3dart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/blender3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blender3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/draw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>draw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/draweveryday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>draweveryday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interactiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactiveFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/keyboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keyboard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hike</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/jump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>play</span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>One more time on Mystery House II! After a group on Gaming Alexandria put in a week worth's of effort, the NEC version is now fixed and playable all the way through. I replay to the end.</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/06/26/mystery-house-ii-the-fixed-nec-version-and-game-end/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/06/26/myst</span><span class="invisible">ery-house-ii-the-fixed-nec-version-and-game-end/</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/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregame</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/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>japanese</span></a></p>
Bharath M. Palavalli<p>This is a fun <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a> exercise or a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> (?) by Saranyan Vigraham at <a href="https://saranyan.com/projects/gdc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">saranyan.com/projects/gdc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. It comes with a short write-up at <a href="https://www.saranyan.com/blog/ai-cultural-intelligence-game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">saranyan.com/blog/ai-cultural-</span><span class="invisible">intelligence-game</span></a>. Do check it out, there are some interesting design choices made in it. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gamedesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DataPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/aiethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiethics</span></a></p>
Space Hobo<p>Today is the last day of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/NarraScope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NarraScope</span></a> 2025, so after the conference you can listen to Jason Compton and me interviewing <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zarfeblong</span></a></span> about some of his earliest works of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a>.<br><a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3ls6acta3q32e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app</span><span class="invisible">/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3ls6acta3q32e</span></a></p>
Terence Eden’s Blog<p><strong>Text Adventures Via Text Message</strong></p><p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/06/text-adventures-via-text-message/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/06/text-</span><span class="invisible">adventures-via-text-message/</span></a></p><p></p><p>Remember text adventures, eh? They were pretty nifty!</p><pre>"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike">Go East"You have been eaten by a Grue. A dwarf starts singing about gold"</pre><p>Smashing! Just like the pictures are better on the radio, so the graphics are immeasurably superior when they're in your head. Don't get me wrong, I love the 5.1 surround sound snarl of a rabid beast rendered in 1080p - but nothing is <em>quite</em> as good as using your imagination.</p><p>Text Adventures - or, more properly, <em>Interactive Fiction</em> - is enjoying a mini-renaissance at the moment. There are emulators for smart phones, computers, and consoles.</p><p>But for SMS? None that I could find. Think about it; SMS is close to the perfect medium for Interactive Fiction. Your commands are concise enough to fit into a single message, you don't have to worry about the speed of your response, everything is text based.</p><p>So, I present to you, Zork via SMS (with a little help from <a href="http://twilio.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twilio</a>).</p><p></p><p>Brilliant!</p><p><strong>HOWTO</strong></p><p>Although superficially a simple project, there are a few gotchas along the way. This documentation is mostly for me - but may be of use to you :-)</p><p>Let's start at the end.... Using <a href="https://www.twilio.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twilio</a> you can send an SMS to a phone number, that is then POSTed to a webserver of your choice.</p><p>Twilio will send an SMS back if it receives a response such as</p><pre><code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><response> <sms>You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boardedfront door.There is a small mailbox here.</sms></response></code></pre><p>Easy enough. (NB the free account prepends your messages with a trial message. Once you pay, that goes away.)</p><p>So, how do we get a text adventure like Zork running server side? There are plenty of client side emulators out there - but I only found one which was purely server side.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141212015043/http://devel.thcnet.net/thcnetdev/index.php?section=article,29588" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">THCnet</a> have a PHP interpreter for Zork. It's slightly cludgy - but it works. I'm checking to see if I can distribute it on GitHub.</p><p>The game library "dtextc.dat" must be installed in "/usr/games/lib/". The source code is available if you want to recompile it and place it somewhere more accessible.</p><p>A MySQL database needs to be created to keep track of users and sessions.</p><p>A temporary directory (which must be readable and writeable) will also be needed to store the state of play for each session. I've used "tmp/404/" but you can alter config.php to point wherever is convenient. You will also need to adjust index.php and functions.php with the new location.</p><p>Finally, the executable "zork" must be runable.</p><p>That's pretty much it.</p><p>When a user (or, in this case, Twilio) first makes a request to the URL, we check to see if they already have a session cookie.If they don't, create one, and start the game by returning the opening text.</p><p>For every subsequent connection, we check the state of the game based on their cookie, then apply the body of their SMS to the game engine. Whatever Zork spits out, we return as an SMS.</p><p>By default, Twilio kills unused sessions after 4 hours, and all cookies will be lost.</p><p><strong>Where Next?</strong></p><p>It strikes me that the various forms of text adventures are excellent as a sort of mini-IVR. A nice little finite-state-machine which can quite happily run for years. Services like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130603122624/https://www.frontlinesms.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frontline SMS</a> are great for information sharing, but they're really not designed for this sort of work.</p><p>Could we use interactive fiction in places where SMS is cheap but other forms of entertainment are expensive? Could IF be used to augment existing media events? SMS is lowest common denominator - even iPhones can use it.</p><p>But, for now, all I have to worry about is someone texting me "Go west'); DROP TABLE ..." ;-)</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/games/" target="_blank">#games</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/hack/" target="_blank">#hack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/hacks/" target="_blank">#hacks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/interactive-fiction/" target="_blank">#interactiveFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/mobile/" target="_blank">#mobile</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/sms/" target="_blank">#sms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/text/" target="_blank">#text</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/twilio/" target="_blank">#twilio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/zork/" target="_blank">#zork</a></p>
lambdageek<p>There was a Copilot mini-hackathon at the office today. With a theme of interacting with the real world.</p><p>But the *real* real world is messy and fickle. So I decided to burn through some tokens having Copilot interact with a *fake* real world.</p><p>Humankind has always hated playing video games. So now Copilot can play a 30 year old game for you, while you go fill out your TPS reports</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textAdventure</span></a> <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/modelContextProtocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modelContextProtocol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copilot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mcp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mcp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dunnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dunnet</span></a></p>
RoundSparrow 🐦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Announcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Announcing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Announce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Announce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Announcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Announcement</span></a> </p><p>Announcing: "Infinite Trumpism Alternate Reality Game" / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ARG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARG</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewGame</span></a> <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/InteractiveNonFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveNonFiction</span></a> !!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> /\</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeeAlso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeeAlso</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaleBlueDotARG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleBlueDotARG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoyceARG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoyceARG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaleBlueDotARG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaleBlueDotARG</span></a> !!!</p>
IFComp<p>Calling all artists on Mastodon!<br>The IFComp is seeking an artists for our 2025 logo!</p><p>Check this post for more info!</p><p><a href="https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/785511692459294720/ifcomp-seeking-an-artist-for-the-2025-logo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ifcomp.org/post/785511692</span><span class="invisible">459294720/ifcomp-seeking-an-artist-for-the-2025-logo</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> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ifcomp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefictioncompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefictioncompetition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ifcomp2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a></p>
Peter M.J. Gross<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@tinker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tinker</span></a></span> <br>Webring of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> sites:<br><a href="https://neoint-webring.netlify.app/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">neoint-webring.netlify.app/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>the conclusion to Nosferatu, the VIC-20 game crammed into 8K of space</p><p>wherein the sharp stick and mallet get used for unconventional purposes</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/27/nosferatu-trees-are-reserved-for-coffins/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/05/27/nosf</span><span class="invisible">eratu-trees-are-reserved-for-coffins/</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/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregame</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/vic20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vic20</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a></p>
Jason Dyer<p>in which I embark on the VIC-20 game Nosferatu</p><p>which, unusually, has us not here to kill the vampire, but steal an artifact and escape</p><p>also, I give the story of Terminal Software and how fibbing to a reporter led to their most famous game</p><p><a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/26/nosferatu-1982-1983/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluerenga.blog/2025/05/26/nosf</span><span class="invisible">eratu-1982-1983/</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/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregame</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/vic20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vic20</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a></p>
Amiga Love ❤<p>Suddenly, out of nowhere, your mind was blown. </p><p>Imagine if they'd paid Douglas Adams to write a paperback novel version of his Infocom game Bureaucracy!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infocom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infocom</span></a> OG <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>textadventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactivefiction</span></a></p>
Davide Bucci<p>I just corrected a bug on the Spectrum version of Silk Dust that prevented the player to finish part 2 of the game. I suspect the same bug affects other Z80 platforms. Stay tuned! <a href="https://darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/indiegame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TextAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TextAdventure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/correction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>correction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Z80</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/z88dk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z88dk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SilkDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkDust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a></p>
Jim Lawless<p>Mike Taylor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/adventuregames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventuregames</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/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c64</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/doctorwho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doctorwho</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://straypointers.com/e/s3e06.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">straypointers.com/e/s3e06.htm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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