lmorchard's linksJan 1
Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue

"Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page in 2012 (with semi-regular updates!) dedicated to hunting down a copy.

To finish off a wild 2025 in game preservation, Arthur O’Dwyer announced the game has been found (by LanHawk, a regular amongs..."

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980/

#gaming #history #ifiction #nifty #retro
Adventure 751 (1980)

COME WITH ME TO COLOSSAL CAVE. WHERE MAGIC ABOUNDS AND TREASURES ARE FOUND. BID YOUR FINGERS FOLLOW YOUR COMMANDS AND I WILL BE YOUR EYES AND HANDS. YET BEWARE THE FIERY DRAGON, FOR HE KNOWS NOT WH…

Renga in Blue
lmorchard's linksNov 27
Celebrate the fictitious 35th anniversary of Ruin, a faux point-and-click adventure game that never was | Rock Paper Shotgun

"The actual game in question here is Ruin: Chapter 0, an interactive fiction game in the stylings of something you might have seen on the ZX Spectrum, albeit with a lot more flair. And, perhaps, a lot more glitches - a big flashing imagery warning is needed for this one. Playable within your browser, it's kind of hard to describe what you do, or even what you're doing, in Ruin. From what I can gather, you are a knight, the hero of rune, tasked by the king to retrieve a sword and defeat evil fo..."

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/celebrate-the-fictitious-35th-anniversary-of-ruin-a-faux-point-and-click-adventure-game-that-never-was

#gaming #ifiction #nifty #retro
Celebrate the fictitious 35th anniversary of Ruin, a faux point-and-click adventure game that never was

The version of Ruin that it pretends to be might not exist, but an intriguing experience still awaits within it.

Rock Paper Shotgun
lmorchard's linksNov 20
historicalsource/zork1: Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom

"This repository is a directory of source code for the Infocom game "Zork I", including a variety of files both used and discarded in the production of the game. It is written in ZIL (Zork Implementation Language), a refactoring of MDL (Muddle), itself a dialect of LISP created by MIT students and staff."

https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1

#gaming #history #ifiction #retro #zork
GitHub - historicalsource/zork1: Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom

Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom. Contribute to historicalsource/zork1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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lmorchard's linksNov 20
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

"Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it."

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

#gaming #history #ifiction #retro #zork
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

lmorchard's linksOct 22
The Greatness of Text Adventures

"Text adventures are weird. They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article, so prepare to read something even more rambly than usual."

https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures

#games #gaming #ifiction
The Greatness of Text Adventures

arbtttrn6Aug 11, 2025

Mi tradukis UrqW al Esperanto: https://urqw.github.io/UrqW/
UrqW estas libera ludmotoro por tekstludoj (https://github.com/urqw/UrqW)

#esperanto #urq #urqw #js #ifiction #cyoa #quest

UrqW

arbtttrn6Aug 11, 2025

Mi tradukis UrqW al Esperanto: https://urqw.github.io/UrqW/
UrqW estas libera ludmotoro por tekstludoj (https://github.com/urqw/UrqW)

#esperanto #urq #urqw #js #ifiction #cyoa #quest

UrqW

arbtttrn6May 18, 2025

Khaelenmore Thaal eldonis novan version (1.1.0) de ludo "A Dragon and the Tower" (ruse. Дракон и Башня) kun mia Esperanta traduko.

Ludo subtenas TinyInstead'on kaj Plainstead'on por homoj kun malbona okula vido.

Ludi ludon eble en: Vindozo 95+, Android 5+, Linukso, MacOS kaj en TTT-foliumiloj.

https://khaelenmore.itch.io/a-dragon-and-the-tower

#instead #instead3 #quests #adventures #ifiction #dragons #esperanto

A Dragon and the Tower by Khaelenmore Thaal, Sabra Naikomy

A Tiny Text Adventure Game

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John-Mark GurneyApr 8, 2025

@mms

Graphviz? It's entirely possible that the map won't be planar, so there might be some crossing edges.

#zork #ifiction #interactivefiction

arbtttrn6Feb 5, 2025

[RU] Различные помощности, кои можно использовать для своей INSTEAD-игры. Потихоньку собираю, когда есть время.

https://arbtttrn6.neocities.org/ru_instead_pomoshchnosti

#instead3 #stead3 #instead #ifiction #interactivefiction #ifrus

[RU] INSTEAD'овые помощности.

Как убрать название сцены, пути, разделители в инвентаре в INSTEAD? Эти и другие вещи описаны здесь.