Podcast hosts Carrington Vanston of the Retro Computing Roundtable and Kay Savetz of ANTIC have joined forces to form a new podcast. Eaten by a Grue is a semi-monthly show in which the two co-hosts play and share their experiences with Infocom interactive fiction. The first two text adventure games they’ve played are Zork I: […]
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Activision releases “Lost Treasures of Infocom” for iOS
This isn’t the first z-machine interpreter for Apple’s mobile operating system, but Activision’s just-released “Lost Treasures of Infocom” for iOS is the first official way to play many of Infocom’s classic text adventures on your iPhone or iPad. Ă‚ The app is available for free from the App Store and comes withĂ‚ Zork I: The Great Underground […]
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Zork co-creators to be honored
Wired is reporting that Dave Lebling and Mark Blank, two of the co-creators ofĂ‚ Zork and co-founders of Infocom, will be honored with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Pioneer Award at the DICE Summit in February.Ă‚ Read the whole announcement here and then check out an interview conducted with Lebling by Wired writer Chris […]
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Get Lamp distribution survey
Jason Scott, creator of BBS: The Documentary, continues his work on his next project: a documentary of text adventures entitled Get Lamp. Media distribution has changed much in the four years since Scott’s last release, and he’s looking for his audience’s perspective on how they want this next documentary delivered. To that end, he has […]