Var8h ago

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition) https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=moqx12hlzkitvb73

1st Place: Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
2nd Place: Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
3rd Place: Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
4th Place: Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
5th Place: The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
6th Place: The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
6th Place: Photopia, by Adam Cadre (as Opal O'Donnell)
8th Place: Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
8th Place: Lost Pigby Admiral Jota

#zork #kobo #koreader

Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2023 edition) - Details

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Deka Black15h ago

>Throw the sack at the troll.
The troll, who is remarkably coordinated, catches the brown sack and, not having the most discriminating taste, gleefully eats it. The flat of the troll's axe hits you on the head...

#Zork #TexAdventure #InteractiveFiction #Infocom #Videogame

mozzriboMay 27

Share Your Arcane Knowledge Wednesday

#Zork #Magic #Occult #PointNClick

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 23
🎮 Ah, the great #Zork detective saga: our intrepid hero finally clears the cobwebs from his save game file and embarks on a thrilling journey of... #blogging about trivia from the 70s. 🤦‍♂️ Because when you're neck-deep in virtual dungeons, what everyone truly craves is a riveting exposé on Wikipedia's source citations. 📚🔍
https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2 #Saga #70sTrivia #SaveGame #VirtualDungeons #HackerNews #ngated
Solving the "Zork" mystery

personal website and git server

Hacker NewsMay 23

Solving the "Zork" Mystery

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2

#HackerNews #Zork #Mystery #Gaming #Adventure #Storytelling

Solving the "Zork" mystery

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lmorchard's linksMay 20
The Visible Zorker Project

"But it also lets you see the game running as you play. Every time you type a command, you’ll see the source code of the functions that executed it. You can also browse the game’s variables and the state of every object. Track your progress on an interactive map. So you can see exactly what the game does and how it does it."

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/

#gaming #ifiction #zork
The Visible Zorker Project

A software exhibit that allows you to explore the source code of Infocom's text adventures.

Bill KimlerMay 15

A fascinating, under-the-hood look at a set of games that occupied a large part of my childhood!

#Zork #80sGames

https://gizmodo.com/the-visible-zorker-lets-you-peer-under-the-hood-to-see-how-games-worked-in-the-80s-2000753421

The Visible Zorker Lets You Peer Under the Hood to See How Games Worked in the 80s

Some things have changed, and some haven't. Also: hello sailor!

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Show threadmartinMay 8

@kyonshi I looked around at various lists of best loved Infocom adventures and added them to my plan (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z1xo8c163g5bfd9p0lt7w/Adventure-game-plan.md?rlkey=5vp89hdyrymkrsij29o0hup0d&st=n9ca76cb&dl=0). I have found a friend willing to play through them with me, so I'm going to start off with another crack at Zork, invisiclues in hand - even though it's probably not the best it's just so influential and I really want that context.

#adventuregame #videogames #infocom #interactivefiction #textadventure #zork

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Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026

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Hackaday Links: May 3, 2026

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