A Zork game! Whee! Except the title doesn???t have any capital letters in it, and somehow I don???t think ???bloodbath??? has permission to use the Zork name. I rather suspect that it???s called ???Zork??? ??? sorry, ???zork??? ??? in order to hea…
Just thought I???d share this tidbit from Google Analytics: Keywords Visits % visits minimum safe distance 57 43.51% minimum safe distance riff 7 5.34% minimumsafedistance 6 4.58% blog minimum safe distance 2 1.53% cockstabbery 2 1.53% Also, I spike…
So, next up: Gleaming the Verb, by Kevin Jackson-Mead. As always, the disclaimer about reviews (and now the list of this year???s reviews so far) is here. Spoiler-free summary: A well-formed but extremely small puzzle. Spoilers after the picture of …
It???s GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands! Is he like the Florida version of Gamera, Friend to All Children? Let???s find out! GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands! was written by Dave Horlick, and this is my disclaimer regarding these reviews. Non-spoilery summary…
This year, I???ve decided on a new system for choosing which games I play: I opened the zcode directory, sorted the folders by size, and I???m playing them in order from smallest to largest. Does this mean that I???ll be playing the shittiest games firs…
Well, it???s that time of year again! Time for me to spend most of my day playing IF games (when I should be finishing the Nemesis quest) and publicly being an asshole to the people who wrote them. Huzzah! Jenni will be doing this as well, I expect….
John Allison, the webcomics genius that brought you Scary Go Round, has recently decided that he???s done with SGR and it???s time to start a new series. This one is called Bad Machinery, and it just started like, yesterday. So for those of you that c…
Oh my god, I want to play this so much. So much. If we don???t get it on this side of the ocean, there will be a mighty gnashing of teeth and shaking of fists.
http://www.accardi-by-the-sea.org/Infocom/Online/ Every version of every Infocom text-adventure game, playable in your browser. And here???s all of the manuals and feelies, so that you can a) get the full experience and b) get past the copyprotectio…
Is it another awesome-looking video game trailer? Yes, yes it is. Ron Gilbert, by the way, is the guy who created Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.
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