Posts From 2023

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January 2023
(2023-01-04) And the misty brakefern way

5 comments (latest 10 hours later)

archie fisher, witch of the westmorland, stan rogers, music, pamela dean, the waybacks, owlswater, west-mer-lands
(2023-01-25) 2023 IGF nominees: the RPG bonanza

betrayal at club low, citizen sleeper, the pale beyond, igf, roadwarden, teenage exocolonist
(2023-01-26) 2023 IGF nominees: visual novels

butterfly soup 2, igf, the wreck, eternal threads
(2023-01-27) 2023 IGF nominees: good old adventures

the past within, return to monkey island, the excavation of hobs barrow, igf, ib, beacon pines, backfirewall_
(2023-01-28) 2023 IGF nominees: the personal

atuel, igf, of moons and mania, he fucked the girl out of me
(2023-01-29) Colossal Cave (2023)

8 comments (latest 02-28)

adventure, colossal cave, ken williams, roberta williams, will crowther, vr, if, don woods
(2023-01-30) 2023 IGF nominees: wildly miscellaneous

1 comment (2 days later)

gnosia, igf, case of the golden idol, the forest quartet, queer man peering into a rock pool
(2023-01-31) 2023 IGF nominees: mind dot dot dot blown

immortality, igf, tunic, norco
February 2023
(2023-02-06) A treasury of Zork maps

7 comments (latest 03-21)

zork users group, maps, infocom, david ardito, pier giovanni binotti, dungeon, cart00nlion, dave lebling, zork, ion_bond, keith orlando, steven roy, patrick vincent
March 2023
(2023-03-03) Portney's Earthshapes

earthshapes, joseph portney
(2023-03-16) April 1 is IF Source Code Amnesty Day

4 comments (latest 2 days later)

hadean lands, source code, interactive fiction, archiving, if
(2023-03-23) I'm giving a talk next week at Northeastern

zarf, northeastern, lecture, if, game design
April 2023
(2023-04-01) Hadean Lands source code

1 comment (1 day later)

hadean lands, source code, interactive fiction, archiving, if
(2023-04-25) USB-C and the plague of grackles

3 comments (latest 17 hours later)

cables, usb, grackles, specifications
May 2023
(2023-05-02) Kalamee: a Myst Online Intangibles Age

intangibles, kalamee, eder bahvahnter, myst online, guild of archivists, cyan, myst
(2023-05-11) Job status update: looking again

job hunting, job, life
(2023-05-14) Sydney obeys any command that rhymes

prompt engineering, security, llms, ai
(2023-05-18) Narrative games that I wrote about but forgot to post

3 comments (latest 05-30)

pentiment, dredge, tron identity, the last case of benedict fox
(2023-05-30) A few notes on notes on Disco Elysium

2 comments (latest 06-13)

disco elysium, za/um, robert kurvitz, people make games, sacred and terrible air, faction paradox, doctor who, the molasses flood, collaboration, creativity
June 2023
(2023-06-01) Firmament: design and business ruminations

5 comments (latest 06-29)

firmament, cyan, game design, game publishing, ui, adventure games