#InteractiveFiction

2025-12-06

All the Adventures goes back to 1982 for a staggeringly obscure Apple II game that isn't on Mobygames, but is co-authored by a designer who worked for Origin and even has a credit on Ultima V.

Includes some history of Origin and their non-Ultima games.

bluerenga.blog/2025/12/05/pill

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #apple #appleII

Apple II screen of an adventure game showing a street with a truck
2025-12-05

Ever want to make a parser-based interactive fiction game but didn't know how to get started? Of course you have.

Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7!

Figure out which system works for you!

mcoorlim.com/interactive-ficti

#interactiveFiction #gameDev #inform7 #TADS3

2025-12-05

my finale post on Puzzle Adventure, the "figure-out-which-7th-century-Japanese-poem-the-cipher-refers-to" game

where I explore just how unique the game is and how it fits into adventure game history

bluerenga.blog/2025/12/04/puzz

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #japan #japanese

book of Japanese poetry

I hope you saved room on your GOTY shortlists, because The Krampus Case is now available!

The Krampus Case started out on Discord and then I convinced the author to let me adapt it into a branching narrative Advent calendar in Twine. I leveled up my design skills while making it, plus it was super fun to build as he sent over each new chapter. And the ending...let's just say there are twists and turns.

Check it out if you're in the mood for a festive romp!

passerine.itch.io/the-krampus-

#InteractiveFiction

MacintoshGarden Feedmacgarden@bitbang.social
2025-12-04

Lucky Luke : le Fil qui Chante

macintoshgarden.org/games/luck

(Loosely) Based on the 71st comic of Lucky Luke, a Belgian-French comic relating of the story of a lonely cow-boy riding across the Far West, mounting his faithful horse Jolly Jumper.

#macgarden #InteractiveFiction #2004 #FMV #Anten #EMMEInteractive #LuckyComics #MacromediaFlash #Western

DRT.fmdrtfm
2025-12-04
2025-12-04

my the third part to my playthrough of Puzzle Adventure

the 1983 adventure game that somehow involves anagrams and wordplay giving clues to ancient Japanese poetry

bluerenga.blog/2025/12/03/puzz

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #japanese #japan

flowers from above

House Only You Remember is based on an idea I developed a decade ago about murderous dolls stabbing people with knitting needles. The project evolved over time and I am now putting finishing touches on the final version. :) #indiegame #interactivefiction #gamebook #solodev

2025-12-03

in which I continue trying to play Puzzle Adventure, the early adventure game that requires you do wordplay with ancient Japanese poetry

bluerenga.blog/2025/12/02/puzz

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #japan #japanese

person with marking on their forehead
2025-12-02

Mike Austin has released much of the source code behind Level 9, the British text-adventure company. This includes their A-code compiler, the source for Knight Orc and other games, and documentation.

It's all pulled straight from old floppies, so it's not going to be trivial to get it working on modern systems. Work is in progress!

github.com/MikeTheTechie/Level

#InteractiveFiction

2025-12-02

On top of my GDevelop jam success yesterday, it turns out that "A Normal Morning" also placed 8th in ECTOCOMP's La Petite Mort category!
damonwakes.itch.io/a-normal-mo
#InteractiveFiction #ECTOCOMP #Inform7 #Inform #parser #horror

A screenshot of the ECTOCOMP La Petite Mort results:

Winner: the lamp of your body, by Naarel
2nd Place: Every day I get emails, by Emery Joyce
3rd Place: Super Halloween Horror Show, by Adam Biltcliffe
4th Place: NOTHING IN MY VEINS, by Nulla and Naarel
5th Place: I Got You, by Kastel
6th Place: Heatsick, by Ormulum
7th Place: Beneath the Weeping Willow, by Lamp Post Projects
8th Place: A Normal Morning, by Damon L. Wakes
9th Place: Go-Strange-Ghost Range, by Andrew Schultz
10th Place: Slop, by Milo van MesdagThe cover image for "A Normal Morning." It's a close-up photo of a red leather sofa. The title appears in large, colour-inverted impact font.
Sencha Wizard 🧙‍♂️🍵caranmegil@mstdn.social
2025-12-02

a while back, i made, using inform 7, an #InteractiveFiction describing how to make #OpenCola. well, a year or so ago, it was converted to twine. well, here is the current WIP version: senchawizard.neocities.org/Ope

Antonio Frecentesechakuari@mastodon.bida.im
2025-12-02

Mi piacerebbe scrivere una #avventuratestuale con #inform6. Ho già qualcosina in mente.
Pensate sia meglio in italiano o in inglese (che non è la mia lingua madre ma la renderebbe fruibile a più persone)?

I’d like to write an #interactivefiction with #inform6. I already got some ideas.
Do you think it would be better to write in Italian (my mother tongue) out in English (so to make it enjoyable to more people)?

2025-12-02

in which I embark what might be my most difficult game yet, Puzzle Adventure

which requires solving ciphertext in Japanese and knowing ancient poetry

It also is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, debuting likely in January 1983, same month as The Palms

bluerenga.blog/2025/12/01/puzz

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #japan #japanese

title screen of Puzzle Adventure
2025-12-01

Ectocomp results are out! So many good games this year: I still haven't played a bunch of the top-placing ones in either of the categories (speed-IF or longer development time).

ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=z3hsskjgh

#InteractiveFiction

The results for #ECTOCOMP2025 are in! The official rankings (based on raw scores) are now posted on IFDB and on the jam page, which you can check out here: itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2025

Congratulations to the entrants, and thanks for playing, rating, and otherwise engaging with this year's generous harvest of spooky games!

#InteractiveFiction #ECTOCOMP

2025-12-01

The Creative Process #41 - Turn to page...

To try something slightly new, test for Craftmanship. If you succeed, turn to page...

the-creative-process.ghost.io/

#InteractiveFiction #gamebook #creativity

2025-11-30

Next on All the Adventures, a trio of games from the children's computing author Richard Ramella.

All three are quite unusual and are "outsider art" in a sense.

bluerenga.blog/2025/11/30/the-

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #tandy

Fun House cover picture with house and boy with four leaf clover
2025-11-29

One year and four weeks after The Amateur Deity Society launched on Steam, it's official: player reviews are Positive.

Big thanks to Bluwiikoon for getting it over the finish line, and to everyone else who's played the game!

#PointAndClick #InteractiveFiction

Steam player review count: Positive, 10.

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