We are looking for individual donations, and also institutional / company sponsors. It turns out that the Strong is considerably more expensive than U Pitt was last year. Pass the word.
Hey, interactive fiction peeps, @aaronareed has just released his Inform 6 adventure, "You Are Standing", originally released as part of the collector's edition of 50 Years of Text games.
today’s pickup is a Palm Tungsten E2. really excited about this one because it has a built-in SD card slot and bluetooth, making for super easy program/file transfers
appears to never have been used, and the battery still holds a strong charge!
I am looking for authors/writers/narrative designers to join a short virtual group discussion to chat about aspects of your craft— especially managing scope and combinatorial explosion on larger projects.
You know what we need? A game where the software plucks a random room description from the entire catalog of infocom games and you have to guess which game it is. #infocomodon#infocom#interactivefiction
The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.
Now I formally put forth the plea:
Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.
in all the excitement I forgot to explain that “Tass” came from Harvard’s Latin motto “veritas” which the developers started saying as “very tass” as slang for something cool