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alcinnz
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
Dan Phiffer
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emacs comes with dunnet. i've never played it. today i am going to play it.
Andrew (Television Executive)
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SO im glad that Zork I, II and III are open source now under the MIT license.
(AND in fact the MIT license, seems especially fitting for open source/free software folks I think. Considering, Zork began life inside MIT's computer labs.)
BUT man that feels a little.... stingy? LIKE I dont quite get why they excluded Beyond Zork & Zork Zero. Which were ALSO developed by Infocom in Z-Machine pre-90s.
BUT hopefully its a start of something more and maybe we will one-day see the whole #Infocom catalog liberated. #InteractiveFiction #Videogames #floss #Zork
emacs comes with dunnet. i've never played it. today i am going to play it.
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
SO im glad that Zork I, II and III are open source now under the MIT license.
(AND in fact the MIT license, seems especially fitting for open source/free software folks I think. Considering, Zork began life inside MIT's computer labs.)
BUT man that feels a little.... stingy? LIKE I dont quite get why they excluded Beyond Zork & Zork Zero. Which were ALSO developed by Infocom in Z-Machine pre-90s.
BUT hopefully its a start of something more and maybe we will one-day see the whole #Infocom catalog liberated. #InteractiveFiction #Videogames #floss #Zork
Andrew Wooldridge 🍂
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Not even a week into it and we already have applications for our microgrants program! Hooray!
Full details on https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2026-iftf-microgrant-applications-now-open.html
You have until November 15th to send your application - let us know if you have any questions!
#IF #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGames #IndieGaming #AdventureGames #funding #gamedev
Not even a week into it and we already have applications for our microgrants program! Hooray!
Full details on https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2026-iftf-microgrant-applications-now-open.html
You have until November 15th to send your application - let us know if you have any questions!
#IF #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGames #IndieGaming #AdventureGames #funding #gamedev
phildini
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ECTOCOMP is now open for entries! Submit your chilling, haunting, or spooky sweet games before October 30, and then we'll meet back here on Halloween to play everyone's submissions! 🧡🖤
ECTOCOMP is now open for entries! Submit your chilling, haunting, or spooky sweet games before October 30, and then we'll meet back here on Halloween to play everyone's submissions! 🧡🖤
It's almost time for ECTOCOMP, the annual competition for spooky interactive fiction! Spend the next six weeks perfecting your spine-tingling masterwork, or start four hours before the deadline and enter the speed-writing category. Submissions open October 1 and games will be released just in time for Halloween.
Rules and more info on the jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025
Andrew (Television Executive)
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IntroComp 2025 voting closes this weekend, and there are still a couple entries with just a single vote apiece. Please try out as many entries as you can and vote! https://introcomp.org/
#IntroComp#InteractiveFiction
IntroComp 2025 voting closes this weekend, and there are still a couple entries with just a single vote apiece. Please try out as many entries as you can and vote! https://introcomp.org/
#IntroComp#InteractiveFiction
Since Die Kathedrale was a bit too tedious for us, we switched to another game: Bureaucracy by Infocom. The author is none other than Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy fame.
An absurd story about getting caught in the daily horrors of forms and protocol.
#interactivefiction #infocom #douglasadams #bureaucracy
Okay, if you haven't seen this murderbot fanfic that is also a fully playable game of minesweeper, you're really missing out:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527