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**WOMUMP** @womump@mastodon.social · 19h

The intfiction dot org forum is currently doing a "guess which #InteractiveFiction work these emojis refer to" quiz format: https://intfiction.org/t/guess-the-if-emojis/75668

The Interactive Fiction Community Forum · 19hGuess the IF emojisHow many of these IF games can you guess from their emoji clues? The clues do not necessarily have to do with the titles, they can be things in the game or associated with the game. ETA: Some of these contributed by @DeusIrae and @mathbrush. You are encouraged to add your own! Clues by Phil Riley: Clue Answer 1. 🏠 📪 2. 🤖 🦠 3. ☄ 🦑 4. 🧌 🐖 5. 🍄 🌂 6. 🪛 🦎 ...

**Andrew Plotkin** @zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place · 21h *

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Andrew Plotkin @zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place

Hadean Lands is now part of the Boston-Based Indies bundle on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56056/Bostonbased_Indies/

Five titles, 15% off:

- Hadean Lands (me!)
- Monster Loves You Too! (Dejobaan)
- MewnBase (Cairn4)
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule)
- Loki's Revenge (OWL)

Not on Steam? I've set up a one-week sale on Itch as well. (Just HL, no bundle.) https://zarf.itch.io/hadean-lands

Enjoy! And thanks for supporting Boston local game developers.

store.steampowered.comBoston-based Indies on Steam

#InteractiveFiction #Boston

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2d *

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Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Today for All the Adventures I have a most unusual post as a game by Kim Watt (likely from 1980) was left in a non-functional state by the author and now is fixed and playable for the first time.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/12/marooned-playable-for-the-first-time/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames

**pixel_turkey** @pixel_turkey@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4d

pixel_turkey @pixel_turkey@mastodon.gamedev.place

A new review for The Zen of Kayaking (2024), some very nice words from BrownPants! Thank you for playing - The game is on reverse-sale ($10 instead of $5) for the next 20 days: https://pixel-turkey.itch.io/the-zen-of-kayaking but can also be had for less via patreon https://www.patreon.com/pixel_turkey #interactivefiction

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**root42** @root42@chaos.social · 5d

root42 @root42@chaos.social

The next secret we are going to tackle is the secret entrance in one of the main columns. What we already discovered: every column has a statue. We examined those but no luck there. As it turns out you have to EXAMINE <SURNAME> to find an ITEM said saint is holding. You don’t get this info when examining the statue nor when using the first name. Bad puzzle design hits again!
#interactivefiction #diekathedrale #commodore #amiga500

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5d

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

All the Adventures reaches a TRS-80 game with code that suggest an author enamored with Scott Adams. He tries to copy, but with a much different method, leading to bizarre side effects.

Also, a near brush with "moon logic" and keys coming out of a bathtub faucet.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/09/herrick-venture-1-escape-1983/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames

**Space Hobo** @spacehobo@teh.entar.net · Jul 8

Jul 8

Space Hobo @spacehobo@teh.entar.net

The libertine thread of disco-era sci-fi shines through in this #Asimov-inspired text adventure, for better and/or worse!
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3ltgbuftmi224 #InteractiveFiction

Bluesky Social · Jul 8The Retro Adventurers (@retroadventurers.bsky.social)Ben, Jason & @davevelociraptor.bsky.social of This Week in Retro take on the robots! CPC/Spectrum/C64 Souls of Darkon, then whodunnit tension in Epyx's The Robots of Dawn for Apple and C64, based (ish) on the Asimov novel. Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.

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**root42** @root42@chaos.social · Jul 7

Jul 7

root42 @root42@chaos.social

Of course there are a lot of coffins. But so far nothing interesting.
#interactivefiction #diekathedrale

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**Brussels Vortex** @brussels_vortex@dice.camp · Jul 7

Jul 7

Brussels Vortex @brussels_vortex@dice.camp

How about you? Any other card games in your country that mix interactive fiction with puzzle-solving? Always looking for new recommendations—drop your favorites!

And if you want to try Brussels Vortex yourself, head over to https://brussels-vortex.com

brussels-vortex.comBrussels Vortex - A Time-Travel Adventure GameImmersive adventure game in Brussels. Travel through time, explore 1927, 1943 and 1957. Solve historical puzzles in the streets of the capital. Free online game.

#interactivefiction #cardgames #BrusselsVortex

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 7

Jul 7

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

In my grand finale to The Dark Crystal, events start to hew closer to the movie, with unfortunate side effects.

This would set the stage for the creation of King's Quest, with a demo version in stores later that same year, and a full release in May of 1984.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/06/the-dark-crystal-a-thousand-years-of-solitude/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames

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**Space Hobo** @spacehobo@teh.entar.net · Jul 6 *

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Space Hobo @spacehobo@teh.entar.net

@profoundlynerdy This sounds an awful lot like Redhawk, which the @retroadventurers.bsky.social covered in episode 22: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/22/ #InteractiveFiction

retroadventurers.podbean.comEpisode 22 - Questprobe: Spider-Man and Redhawk | The Retro AdventurersPOW! KABOOM! KWAH! Dave and Jason explore two 1980s text adventures pulled from the world of comic books! (At the time, comics were just one of many forms of narrative expression and not the dominant storytelling platform as they are this century.) First up it's Redhawk from Melbourne House, which experiments with text/graphics adventure presentation by building a three-panel comic on-screen based on player input. Can you, as mild-mannered news photographer Kevin Oliver and as flying, fighting superhero Redhawk save the city? Then it's Questprobe: Spider-Man from Adventure International, from the short-lived Marvel Comics series which just predated the company's end. Amazing feats of wall-walking and strength await! Finally, we play the work-in-progress of the unfinished Questprobe: X-Men, provided by Scott Adams himself from his archives. Questprobe: Spider-Man (playable online, Apple II verson) Questprobe: Spider-Man on IFDB Redhawk (playable online, Amstrad CPC version) Redhawk on IFDB

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**root42** @root42@chaos.social · Jul 5

Jul 5

root42 @root42@chaos.social

Ok, we gave in and had a look at a German walkthrough. To be precise: ASM Special issue 15, which I actually owned as a kid! It is since long lost, copies float around the web! So you REALLY have to examine and search EVERYTHING. And I mean literally EVERYTHING. And you CAN‘T solve the game using the mouse interface alone. Which is a huge NO NO in my books. The verb we needed was TURN, and it is NOT in the icons. Then what’s the use of icons anyhow?
#interactivefiction #diekathedrale

**Peter "Wraithkal" Christiansen** @Wraithkal@mas.to · Jul 5

Jul 5

Peter "Wraithkal" Christiansen @Wraithkal@mas.to

It's submission time for the 2025 edition of The Interactive Fiction Competition!

https://www.wraithkal.com/2025-ifcomp-accepting-entries/

#IFComp #interactivefiction

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 5 *

Jul 5 *

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

In The Dark Crystal, Jen and Kira finally meet, and I ruminate over the awkward puzzles and wild innovation (sometimes both happening at the same time).

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/04/the-dark-crystal-evil-triumphs-over-all/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames

**GameDevPodcast** @gamedevpodcast@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 3 *

Jul 3 *

GameDevPodcast @gamedevpodcast@mastodon.gamedev.place

Episode 92: Kenam Moorwak: 1000 Entscheidungen in 20 Jahren Entwicklung
Website: https://gamedevpodcast.de/92/
Youtube: https://youtu.be/6brrBZghN-Q
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gamedevpodcast
Discord: https://discord.gamedevpodcast.de
Gast:Josef Fenger
#gamedev #podcast #textadventure #cyoa #indiegame #interactivefiction

**IFComp** @IFComp@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 3

Jul 3

IFComp @IFComp@mastodon.gamedev.place

And we're officially kicking off the 2025 Edition of the IFComp!

From now until August 1st, you can submit your authorial intent!

Come show off the best of your best!

https://blog.ifcomp.org/post/788067590629146624/
#interactivefiction #gamedev #indiedev #ifcomp #ifcomp2025 #interactivefictioncompetition

TumblrIFComp 2025 Now Accepting Intents & EntriesHello, everyone, and happy (slightly belated) start of July! With a new July comes a new season of the Interactive Fiction Competition! From now through August 1st 2025, 11:59pm Eastern (23:59 ET),...

**Sarah** @passerine@peoplemaking.games · Jul 3

Jul 3

Sarah @passerine@peoplemaking.games

I made a game last month! It's a word-swapping puzzle game with exactly 500 words of game text. If you just want to breeze through without doing the hard puzzles, type EASY for story mode.

https://passerine.itch.io/swap-wand-user

itch.ioSwap Wand User by PasserineA puzzle game in 500 words

#InteractiveFiction #NeoTwinyJam #ParserComp

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 2

Jul 2

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

My playthrough of the movie-game The Dark Crystal continues as I unearth the secrets of the landscape

and find it closer in feel to King's Quest than the previous Hi-Res Adventure Games from Sierra

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/02/the-dark-crystal-they-lit-the-fires-of-prophecy-and-took-counsel-from-the-flames/

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames

**foo** @slashdottir@mastodon.online · Jul 2 *

Jul 2 *

foo @slashdottir@mastodon.online

I thought about entering this contest, but I'm not a professional artist with a portfolio and all that. So, I just used it as an art prompt. Made with Sketchup 2017 and MakeHuman

https://mastodon.online/@IFComp@mastodon.gamedev.place/114630494584386978

#art #mastoart #sketchup3d

**Jason Dyer** @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 1 *

Jul 1 *

Jason Dyer @jdyer@mastodon.gamedev.place

During production of The Dark Crystal, Sesame Street songwriter / Apple II fan Christopher Cerf made contact with one of the most famous Apple II companies at the time, Sierra On-Line.

I tell the history and play the first part of the resulting game.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/01/the-dark-crystal-1983/

#history #apple #videogames

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