Andrew Plotkin
An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, eblong.com/zarf/home.html
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- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinYelling "you're not my real Pope" at your real Pope: extremely frowned upon by the church, and a second period of Finding Out is about to commence
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- Website procedural note: I now have a landing page for the Visible Zorker collection. eblong.com/infocom/visi/ Still just has Zork 1 and Zork 2, but now there's a list to grow.
- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinALL SUBMISSIONS close end of day tomorrow Saturday January 31st. Submit! And take note: there will be no deadline extensions this year.
- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinAnnouncing the IFTF x GDC Scholarship Program. We have a small number of passes to distribute amongst our community, so if you are interested, please visit this thread on IntFiction.org for details: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...
- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinZarf's Visible Zorker was so cool, glad to see he's giving ALL the Infocom games the same treatment. Support his new Patreon if you can for this non-trivial media archaeological work!
- Replay for the morning crowd: I have launched a Patreon to do Visible Zork 3, followed by all the rest of the Infocom games. One per month. There's an associated Discord for game discussion as we run through them. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker
- Order check: Deadline was before Zork 3 and Starcross. Whoops! blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/chro...
- Replay for the morning crowd: I have launched a Patreon to do Visible Zork 3, followed by all the rest of the Infocom games. One per month. There's an associated Discord for game discussion as we run through them. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... www.patreon.com/VisibleZorker
- Here we go... Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...
- @nova-box.com Yes? Email contact info at zarfhome.com ?
- This is not helping me figure out the grammar stuff for Visible Zorker. (Steve Meretzky writing ZIL documentation circa 1989. "Stu" is Stu Galley.)
- Reposted by Andrew Plotkinmy new website, mothership.blog, is launching this monday!! it's going to be super fun and you will all enjoy reading it. we are independent and worker-owned and can't stay alive without subscribers, though, and we are currently running a lifetime 15% off deal that you should realllly be grabbing ->
- Orbiting slowly in the dark in TR-49. Occasionally I manage to stumble across a page.
- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinWe are aware that the Intfiction forums are currently down and are working on a fix. Thank you for the notifications!
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- I suddenly remember that in kindergarten, the difference between glue and paste was extremely important.
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- IGF nominations are up, and that means it's time for my eclectic review post. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/2026... - Arctic Awakening - Promise Mascot Agency - The Haunting of Joni Evers - Carceri - Prší - Kid Cosmo - and Roger - Jane (Some other IGF games are already reviewed; see links in post.)
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- Check out my funtime project from the holiday break! blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... Will I continue on to Zork 3? Watch this space!
- NarraScope call for proposals is open! We're at the University at Albany, June 12-14. Now accepting: - Talks - The Showcase (games) - The Experience (new this year!) blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/narr... narrascope.org
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Narrascope 2026 open call: The Experience Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds through Narrative Seeking projects in the realms of augmented/mixed reality, interactive installations, haunts, escape rooms, live performances that leverage tech, and more. narrascope.org/experience/ - Reposted by Andrew Plotkin📣 NarraScope 2026 submissions are open! This year NarraScope will feature three different areas for submission: our classic talks, the second year of our game Showcase, and the debut of The Experience. 🧵(1/4)
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- Reposted by Andrew PlotkinOkay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
- Last post of the year! It’s reviews. Short ones. - Despelote - Many Nights a Whisper - Keeper blog.zarfhome.com/2025/12/ador...
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- Keeper (the game) is very chill and pleasant.
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- Had a nice dinner in with my partner's family and sang some song around the table afterwards. I remembered this one and brought it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY3A... "Jesus, the Fugitive Prince" by David Massengill.
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- There, I have played Despelote. It's good!
- Gearing up to tackle Visible Zorker 2 over the holidays. This involves a lot of boring refactoring right now. Like, the list of ZIL source files is hard-coded in a bunch of places, but Zork 2 has different source files, so I have to separate that out in a tidy way. Stuff like that.
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- I missed that Monument Valley 3 was released for iOS last month. A regular purchase — no longer part of Netflix's brief flirtation with being a subscription game service. Also, some new levels (“The Garden of Life”).
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- Reposted by Andrew Plotkinposted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/
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