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.