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
Jon Ingold
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...
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/...
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🕚️ 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...
Robin Ward
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
Andrew Plotkin
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
It is, in fact, very good. I played it last night. Adorable.
I have a theory about the word "theevei"... (no spoilers though).
jobs.gusto.com/boards/lette...
jobs at Letterform Archive, for those who are font/graphic design nerds? I feel like I know too many of those out of work.
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/
Andrew Plotkin
NarraScope
Andrew Plotkin
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...
Spring surprise games! That is, they surprised me when they turned up, and then delighted me. Also it's still spring, barely.
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/06/spri...
- The Archives of Trevosa
- Hypogea
- The 7th Guest Remake (2023)
Karla Coals Zimonja
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...
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
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
