After a few months of inactivity on my blog (which has happened before), I have written a medium-sized article about how the term "interactive fiction" has changed over the years.
https://www.vintrospektiv.de/index.php/2026/01/quo-vadis-interactive-fiction/ #interactivefiction #vintrospektiv #textadventures #infocom #cyoa
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
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
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
