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NarraScope 2025 registration is live! Philadelphia is the place to be June 20-22 to talk games & narrative. Register before April 11 for the early bird rate!

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NarraScope news: we have keynote speakers and a schedule! narrascope.org/schedule We have registration open! narrascope2025.eventbrite.com We have other info on the web site too. narrascope.org Join us in Philadelphia in June. Hope to see you there.

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Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! Until April 11, full NarraScope 2025 memberships are available at a discounted Early Bird rate. Your membership provides access to all NarraScope talks, meals, and opportunities to sign up for workshops. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

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Announcing our 2025 keynote speakers: Saturday’s keynote will be delivered by world-famous, cult-favorite designer SWERY, and Sunday’s will be delivered by Philadelphia’s own Dain Saint. Join us in Philadelphia this June to learn from Dain, SWERY, and other narrative design pros!

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Apropos of very little, I've had three lines of a Doctor Who filk stuck in my head since _the 1990s_ dammit, and last time I tried to hunt it up, I failed. Tonight I tried again. Peter David, it turns out. web.archive.org/web/20120912...

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Well, now. www.internetarchive.eu

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It is very weird seeing a Doctor Who season trailer which is edited like a mass-market sci-fi show promo rather than, you know, a teaser for Doctor Who fans.

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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS! Old Skies drops in 30 days! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/... #oldskiescountdown #indiegames #indiegame

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Photos from GDC (but mostly wandering around SF) eblong.com/zarf/photo/t...

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Just a reminder that I will be signing books at the Bow Market Book Fair in Somerville MA from 2-3 pm this afternoon! www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/6th-a...

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Rime has been released for Myst (2020). blog.zarfhome.com/2025/03/the-...

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Caves of Qud wins Excellence in Narrative!!!

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Invisiclues.org: a new Infocom fan site which collects a lot of contemporary articles. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/03/the-...

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An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

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The fun stuff we can do with Civ VII’s narrative system, from our talk earlier — thanks so much for coming!

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✨ Big announcement: grab your parka and get ready to explore a NEW AGE (with new surprises)! 📖❄️🔭 If you have Myst (2020 release), you will have access to the snowy seascape of Rime on March 20th at 10am PT! More ⤵️

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Reader, we did and I was!

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This exhibit is in SF now and it's still great! www.bccbooks.org/event/imagin...

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(But I can repost a couple of items at night from my hotel room!)

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Lotta Godot being mentioned on big banners here at GDC.

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I fear that my bsky posting will be mostly on hold this week. Normally I crosspost on Mastodon and Bluesky, because that's almost frictionless on my desktop. This week I'm at GDC and almost entirely on my tablet, where crossposting is just a bit too much of a hassle. Apologies!

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It'll be my first GDC, but I'm an experienced conference goer in general. This is gonna be a thread and every part of it is important: #safeGDC 1 • If you don't fully present as a cis male, your risk is greater, but cis males get abused too -- by ALL genders. These tips are for EVERYONE. 🧵/1

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Re this article: www.polygon.com/gaming/53894... I was laid off from Possibility Space when it shut down, after a bare four months at the company. I don't know what happened. I don't know a thing about its investors. The founders' public statements were basically content-free.

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Good grief, Asylum is out. The horror adventure game which was announced in 2010 I think? From the developer of Scratches. senscape.net

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Book!

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A couple of months ago I released The Visible Zorker (eblong.com/infocom/visi...), an exercise in code transparency and visualization. For Zork!

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I see Wanderstop is out today. I've only played the demo. Even though I'm in the credits...!

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But of course no one is going to listen to the LITERAL (co-)AUTHOR of §230, are they

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I see Walgreens has just declared future bankruptcy. This sucks, but it's something that happened last year, not next year. Private equity is just going to be in charge of flying the company into the ground.

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On the Discord IPO plans: Remember that the enshittification clock starts as soon as a company considers going public -- or taking another round of VC funding, even. Discord's monetization moves have not been huge so far, but I never thought they were aiming at modest self-sustainability.

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