Jason Shiga's _The Beyond_ is out for iPhone/iPad!
apps.apple.com/us/app/the-beyo…
My notes: blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-…
THE BEYOND: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide.App Store
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So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!
#accessibility #macOS #apple #InteractiveFiction #Spatterlight
github.com/angstsmurf/spatterl…
Updated fork of Spatterlight. Contribute to angstsmurf/spatterlight development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I'm very honoured that my interactive fiction game Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates has won in three categories at the IFDB Awards, two for genre and one for programming language:
* Outstanding Historical Game of 2023
* Outstanding Romance Game of 2023
* Outstanding Ink Game of 2023.
ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=4g63bkqob…
#InteractiveFiction #IF #Inkle #Romance #Xanthippe #Socrates #GameAwards
IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, reviews, recommendations, and more.ifdb.org
We're happy to announce the results of our first #grants cycle!
Four projects were selected by our panel of advisors, and $2400 was disbursed by IFTF to support these projects. We had a range of proposals and the final slate shows great diversity - interpreters, accessibility, history, and sprouting new communities!
We are delighted with the results of this program - thank you all for participating!
Blog post with more details here: blog.iftechfoundation.org/2024…
The recipients of the first IFTF Grant cycle have been selected, awarding funds to a handful of projects representing the different areas of the IF community.IFTF Blog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures) is a lighthearted interactive fiction game by John Goerzen. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the world.www.complete.org
If you know someone at Microsoft who would be interested in the grand opportunity for #InteractiveFiction preservation that today's merger has—as a side effect!—granted the company, please get in touch with me, @zarfeblong, or another @IFTF person. (I stepped down from IFTF leadership earlier this year, but I'm still active within it.)
Here is Zarf's plea to Microsoft to do the right thing with its newly (if perhaps accidentally) acquired Infocom IP: blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/micr…
The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...Zarf Updates
On last reboost, the iOS app version of Lost Treasures of Infocom:
archive.org/details/lost-treas…
The game files are all the usual versions, as far as I know. (I'll check in detail, but they should match the contents of archive.org/details/InfocomCla… .)
The nice part here is the game feelies, maps, and hint files. These are *also* derived from the 1996 CD but may have been updated or reformatted.
@vga256 #InteractiveFiction #Infocom
Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces1996InfocomIncludes:• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur •...Internet Archive
