Necrotic Drift v1.03
Ice Cream Jonsey I fixed a Linux bug in Necrotic Drift. You can get the latest version here. There’s no gameplay changes. Well, unless you were trying to play it in Linux (you…
interactive fiction
The Expanded Twitterverse
The hamper managed to tip over on all three cats, throwing them all into some kind of Parker Brother Presents Mouse Trap II: Kitty Jail, so I’m taking the ten…
How Text Games Affected My View of UHC
I’m replaying Circuit’s Edge, which was a graphical text adventure developed by Westwood, under the post-merger Infocom label. I once said it was the 59th best game ever made. While…
The Canonical List of Miserable Games
I wrote a scene in Fallacy of Dawn where the player is expected to give horrible games to a clerk that is a bit of a gaming elitist. The clerk…
Want Some Rye?
Course ya do. Aardvark, from the JC BBS, made the following and I think it speaks for itself. I’ll be submitting the paperwork for its eventual grammy nomination shortly. (If…
Thomas M. Disch, R.I.P.
Thomas M. Disch, author of the 1986 text adventure Amnesia (published by Electronic Arts) passed away on July 4th. He took his own life. Every May my friend Greg returns…
Actors in Text Games, Part One
When IÂ made A Crimson Spring, I was learning a new IF programming language, drawing comic book-style art after a lengthy layoff, getting music integrated, and displaying graphics. I didn’t…
The Point of No Return
I’ve reached the point of no return when it comes to writing a text game. I’m a complete mess. I can’t remember the last time I got a good night’s…
Gun on the Mantlepiece
Jimmy Maher was nice enough to play and review No Time to Squeal, a game I did with Mike Sousa a few years ago. Check out his thoughts here. There’s…
Pinback’s Top Ten Games of All-Time: #6
Pinback #6: INFOCOM GAME (1980-) You can get all righteous and indignant about the state of gaming, our children, and our society as a whole by going on a rant about…