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Jason DyerAn unusual drop on Steam today: a traditional text parser adventure game. I haven't seen one land on Steam in a while.<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3694940/Baels_Rock_A_Text_Adventure/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://store.steampowered.com/app/3694940/Baels_Rock_A_Text_Adventure/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#steam</a>

Jason DyerOn the All the Adventures, we return to Britain's seemingly unique "satirical urban grunge" genre with Urban Upstart for the ZX Spectrum.<a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/urban-upstart-1983/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/urban-upstart-1983/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/zxspectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zxspectrum</a>

FenericIntroComp 2025 voting closes this weekend, and there are still a couple entries with just a single vote apiece. Please try out as many entries as you can and vote! <a href="https://introcomp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://introcomp.org/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IntroComp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IntroComp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a>

Travis BriggsOkay, this is legitimately the most fun I've had yet with my new game, Dada Quest.Full transcript: <a href="https://gist.github.com/audiodude/e3b464ede94af9a3f4e625dca0b1aec4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/audiodude/e3b464ede94af9a3f4e625dca0b1aec4</a>Dada Quest: <a href="https://dada.quest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dada.quest</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#game</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#story</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>

Andrew PlotkinWhimsical bit of IF investigation: which Infocom games support “X” as a synonym for “EXAMINE”?<a href="https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/09/spotting-x" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/09/spotting-x</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a>

Travis BriggsMy wife started DADA QUEST in a “dimly lit room”… 20 minutes later she was a spy on an assassination mission. That’s the promise, chaos, and sometimes surreal whimsy of this retro text adventure with an AI game master.I just launched my first game and would love your help getting it off the ground—play free at <a href="https://dada.quest/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dada.quest/</a>. First 100 who share honest thoughts on social media and email me get complementary lifetime premium as a thank you!<a href="https://dada.quest/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dada.quest/</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#games</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IndieGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieGame</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IndieDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieDev</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AIgame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIgame</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LaunchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaunchDay</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Launch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Launch</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VibeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VibeCoding</a>

Vivienne DunstanIFComp 2025 is now open for judging. 85 new <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/interactiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactiveFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#games</a> in there. Free to play. Judging runs until October 15th.This year the UK's <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> and very recent developments have posed considerable challenges to the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IFComp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFComp</a> organisers and IFTF folks. They navigated their way through as best as they can. But currently 24 of the 85 games are geoblocked to all UK players. Until a few days ago it was to be all 85 ...More details in the IFComp blog at <a href="https://blog.ifcomp.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.ifcomp.org</a>

root42Can’t catch a break today. The REU has issues so we switched to two drives on the C64 for <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bureaucracy</a> by <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/infocom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infocom</a>. Game runs slower but without crashes. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a>

root42Did you know that there were <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/infocom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infocom</a> novels published, matching the games? <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/planetfall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#planetfall</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/zork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zork</a>

Damon L. WakesToday I submitted my largest ever entry to the annual Interactive Fiction Competition. 49,506 words according to the Inform interpreter, and 57,968 if you include all my comments in the code. It's been a truly monstrous amount of work - I'm planning to take at least a couple of days off before getting started on my entry for 2026. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WhoWhackedJimmyPi%C3%B1ata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhoWhackedJimmyPiñata</a>? <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IFComp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFComp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IFComp2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IFComp2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Inform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inform7</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a>

IFCompWe're just a few weeks away from the release of this year's amazing batch of games... Are you excited for them as much as we are? While we must wait just a bit longer, our Colossal Fund is officially live! Come help contribute to the cash prizes of this year's comp?<a href="https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/792165104576774144/the-2025-colossal-fundraiser-has-begun" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/792165104576774144/the-2025-colossal-fundraiser-has-begun</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefictioncompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefictioncompetition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ifcomp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ifcomp2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ColossalFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColossalFund</a>

Damon L. WakesI forgot to share anything for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ScreenshotSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScreenshotSaturday</a> yesterday, but it seems worth mentioning that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WhoWhackedJimmyPi%C3%B1ata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhoWhackedJimmyPiñata</a>? has now passed 45,000 words. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Inform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inform7</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TextAdventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TextAdventure</a>

Jason DyerNext on All the Adventures, the story of the arrival of Sinclair to Denmark, and the first adventure game (kind of) we have from the country.<a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/16/citadel-1981/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/16/citadel-1981/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#denmark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

root42I love the bolete mushrooms in this Infocom advert for Trinity. I started the game a couple of times, but didn‘t have the right patience yet to finish it! One day… <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/infocom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infocom</a>

ralf tauscher :FreiburgSocial:ha, "ported" my 5 year old piece of interactive fiction to the current version of inform.<a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inform7</a>

Terri K O 🍁Okay, if you haven't seen this murderbot fanfic that is also a fully playable game of minesweeper, you're really missing out: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527</a><a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/murderbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#murderbot</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/fanfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fanfic</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/ao3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ao3</a>

Michael Coorlim<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gameDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/devLog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#devLog</a> Current Projects:1. Top down puzzle game in <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/godotEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#godotEngine</a>. I'll be releasing tutorials in PDF form for my patreon supporters as we go.2. Video on David Ahl's BASIC books. Will endeavor to release a browser playable BASIC game.3. An 80s-movie themed <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InteractiveFiction</a> serial.

Jason DyerA new country awaits for All the Adventures: New Zealand! I give the history of the country's microcomputing scene in the 80s (more dramatic and twisty than expected) then embark on the first adventure we currently have from the country, Robots on Terminus IV.<a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/robots-on-terminus-iv-1983/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/robots-on-terminus-iv-1983/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/zx81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zx81</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/newzealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newzealand</a>

Jason DyerMy third and final post on early Japanese adventure game The Palms, which was the first to try to truly reproduce what was seen on the Apple II imports from Sierra On-Line.I reach the ending and also try to decipher the pseudonyms in the credits.<a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/05/the-palms-mark-of-the-hummingbird/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/05/the-palms-mark-of-the-hummingbird/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japanese</a>

IFCompToday is the last day to register an intent to submit! Until Midnight Eastern Time!See you on: <a href="https://ifcomp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ifcomp.org/</a> !!<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ifcomp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefictioncompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefictioncompetition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ifcomp2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ifcomp2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/visualnovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualnovel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/parser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parser</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a>

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