Michael Baltes

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Every story begins with a single sentence. Expect the game to be ready in 2030.
No, seriously.

I picked up the work on my long lasting WIP once called „infinite blue“ and I’ll report frequently about the progress.

It‘s 2026, a good year for interactive fiction, I guess.

Deutschsprachiger #Interactive #fiction #Wettbewerb „IF Grand Prix 2025“ #ifGP25: Im April 2025 findet der 15. Wettbewerb für interaktive #Literatur und #Textspiele statt, Absichtserklärungen müssen bis 1.3.2025 vorliegen. Infos:

Forum https://if-forum.org/topic.php?id=1338
Website https://ifwizz.de/if-grand-prix-2025.html

IF-Forum - Stammtisch - Spielen! - Start frei für den 15. IF Grand Prix 2025!

Prepare for the #ifgp25, the German Interactive Fiction Grand Prix for textadventures.

The games will be online at https://ifwizz.de/grand-prix.html on April 16th.

Happy to see new German textadventures, ready to play and vote before Easter weekend.

Interactive Fiction Grand Prix

Zum achten Mal wird ein Grand Prix für deutsche Textadventures veranstaltet, bei dem Autoren und Spieler zum Teilnehmen eingeladen sind.

Zarf blows everyone away with The Visible Zorker, a way to play Zork that shows you the state of the virtual machine, the place in the source code you're living, and more. Brilliant.

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi-zork1/

The Visible Zorker

A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.

This is exactly how I feel on Mondays.
@mr_creosote I can’t tell what happened. I just couldn’t continue writing.
First milestone done:
Got some basic functionality for our German #textadventure example „Die Jadestatue“, running in my custom #python IF engine Nothing exiting but a first huge step.
If you drive a Tesla, I am no longer your friend.
If you are on Twitter, I am no longer your friend.
You're an enabler and I am no longer your friend.
@mr_creosote
Yes I believe so.