An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html
Andrew Plotkin
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Repeating last retwoot:
NarraScope online registration closes tonight at 11:59 pm Eastern! If you want to follow the streams live (on Discord) and participate in the conference chat, you must register *today*.
narrascope.org/register/
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
Our next game, The Incident at Galley House, is coming out July 14, 2026! You can wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
Heaven's Vault has an enormous amount of system in it to casually drop a clue right in front of you should you run out of info; it's entirely invisible in the course of play but take it away and the game is just impossible
🕚️ There's still time to register for a NarraScope 2026 remote membership, but the clock is ticking! Membership sales close at 11:59pm EDT tonight...
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Spring surprise games! That is, they surprised me when they turned up, and then delighted me. Also it's still spring, barely.
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- The Archives of Trevosa
- Hypogea
- The 7th Guest Remake (2023)
IntroComp is underway for 2026! Do you have an idea you want to try out in a small way before a real audience? Do you need a helpful nudge to start on that interactive fiction project you've been thinking about? Here's your chance! Intents to enter are being accepted all this month. introcomp.org
It is, in fact, very good. I played it last night. Adorable.
I have a theory about the word "theevei"... (no spoilers though).
Followup on that post about George Alec Effinger writing _The Zork Chronicles_. Turns out he posted on the IF Usenet group in 1997! I had entirely forgotten.
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/06/effi...
narrascope.org
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
Not a Monty Python reference (unless you really want one), but rather: it's still spring (barely) and here's some games that surprised me. They popped up suddenly out of nowhere; I hadn't heard much a...
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jobs at Letterform Archive, for those who are font/graphic design nerds? I feel like I know too many of those out of work.
introcomp.org
I posted a couple of weeks ago about Infocom tie-in novels, with a bit of a digression on the work of George Alec Effinger. It turns out that I have a response from Effinger to relay! Not a response t...
grinding a narrative game is weird… like I’m playing Seance of Blake Manor and I’ve run out of leads so I guess I’ll just ask everyone about everything now
