after some extensive research, i have learned that there was never a Myst or Riven textual MUD/MUSH/MOO and i am fascinated by the prospect of it.

completely textual, player-built ages, puzzle-thick, and role-play oriented.

imagining it to be like playing Planetfall with friends

#mud #moo #infocom

after some extensive research, i have learned that there was never a Myst or Riven textual MUD/MUSH/MOO and i am fascinated by the prospect of it.

completely textual, player-built ages, puzzle-thick, and role-play oriented.

imagining it to be like playing Planetfall with friends

#mud #moo #infocom

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/115963924049444355

Text-adventure archwizard @zarfeblong wants to turn the success of his amazing game-studies project "The Visible Zorker" into a monthly series of self-study exhibitions, each of which will let you poke around the guts of a different game in the #Infocom classic catalog. If this is your kind of thing, maybe sign up for the project’s Patreon! #Videogames #InteractiveFiction

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/115963924049444355

Text-adventure archwizard @zarfeblong wants to turn the success of his amazing game-studies project "The Visible Zorker" into a monthly series of self-study exhibitions, each of which will let you poke around the guts of a different game in the #Infocom classic catalog. If this is your kind of thing, maybe sign up for the project’s Patreon! #Videogames #InteractiveFiction

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.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

(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.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

(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