Worlds Apart
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/worlds-apart
For over 20 years, I have dreamed about an alternate universe I call The Higher World. For the last three of those years, I've poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in
#macgarden #interactivefiction #2000 #text #suzannebritton #tads
the conclusion of Aardvark's game "for children" Haunted House, with a highly unusual verb near the end, and a ghastly bug which I'm amazed got through even given Aardvark's lax standards
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/13/haunted-house-alfred-hitchcock-presents/
The Light - Shelby's Addendum
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-light-shelbys-addendum
A sci-fi mystery text adventure.
#macgarden #interactivefiction #1996 #text #illusorymentalimages #camccarthy #tads
Jigsaw - An Interactive History
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/jigsaw-interactive-history
New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not
#macgarden #interactivefiction #1996 #text #grahamnelson #zmachine
The Pawn has some nasty little pitfalls. For example when the doors to hell open, there is mention of a porter BEHIND the doors. But if you go east, he immediately kills you. The porter actually spawns in your CURRENT room, but the description doesn’t tell you unless you do another LOOK.
#interactivefiction #commodore #c64 #magneticscrolls
The Space Under the Window
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-space-under-the-window
An extremely small game. Not standard interactive fiction. Try it and see.
#macgarden #interactivefiction #1997 #text #andrewplotkin #zmachine
Hunter, in Darkness
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/hunter-in-darkness
An interactive cave crawl.
#macgarden #interactivefiction #1999 #text #andrewplotkin #zmachine
Just did an edit of an episode of @retroadventurers.bsky.social yesterday, and I have to say there's a very rough sort of experiential bias this causes. I spent so long zooming in on regions where participants momentarily tripped over their own tongues, lost their trains of thought, or otherwise flubbed up. I played these bits over and over to find just the right section to mute or cut out. It left me with a false memory that everyone had just made a hash of it.
I just played the full episode in the background while doing other things, and I was left thinking "Gosh, this is a great episode!" I'd love to take credit for a stellar edit or whatever, but really it was just obvious: these were all the bits I wasn't focusing on the previous day, run end-to-end! #InteractiveFiction #podcast #Audacity #editing
Been for a few days as a proof of concept in twine.
set in my Panzer Strider / Star punk stories setting.
less then 1400 words of text so very short but I am still figuring out branching paths in fiction.
all constructive criticism welcome and apreciated
Curses
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/curses
Curses is a seemingly simple quest to find a street map of Paris leads you into odd corners of an old mansion, your imagination, and ultimately into the ancient past.
#macgarden #interactivefiction #1996 #text #grahamnelson #zmachine
In the last Haunted House for 1982, we return to Aardvark and their only-the-first-two-letters-of-each word parser in a game allegedly for children.
I also discuss how games for children can cause innovation (but not here).
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/12/haunted-house-anderson-1982/
in which I play the last of the Softside Adventures of the Month for 1982, and find one of the most amoral main characters of the entire span of early adventure games
The 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction nominees await nomination!
What are you doing this weekend?
You need more video games in your life, and Spring Thing is a great place to find them. Enjoy more than 30 works of interactive fiction, and nominate your favorites for ribbons:
El Verkami de @alien se abre PRÓXIMAMENTE. Es una campaña innovadora que pretende impulsar varios proyectos de rol que suceden en un mismo universo solarpunk con un acento puesto en la perspectiva de género, algo bastante inédito en nuestra comunidad:
https://www.verkami.com/projects/40694-universo-de-rol-solarpunk
A finales de abril @alien participará en el congreso Meeple Factory para dar un taller de rol en solitario. Durante el congreso utilizará sus propios juegos y a todes les participantes les ofrecerá el material necesario. Como dice ella misma "¡Solo hace falta traer ganas!" https://itch.io/blog/922455/taller-de-solo-journaling"
Apparently April 9th was International Unicorn Day, so here I am sharing Ultraviolent Unicorn Deathmatch of Destiny almost an hour late. 
#InternationalUnicornDay #Twine #InteractiveFiction #UltraviolentUnicornDeathmatchOfDestiny
https://philome.la/DamonWakes/ultraviolent-unicorn-deathmatch-of-destiny/play/index.html
All the Adventures reaches the last of the ASD&D TIVenture games, which somehow rips off a Roberta Williams puzzle while improving it at the same time
also, nitpicking about the Eocene era and an encounter with PROFESSOR HIGGINS
the conclusion to the short and surreal Fun House by published ASD&D of Minnesota
which started with shaving a clown and ends with the most surreal science puzzle I've seen in a while
includes an analysis of BASIC source code
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/08/fun-house-science-with-mr-morgan/
Graphviz? It's entirely possible that the map won't be planar, so there might be some crossing edges.
