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An interactive fiction guy. https://zarfhome.com, https://blog.zarfhome.com, https://eblong.com/zarf/home.html

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As part of the ongoing job hunt, I set up a software portfolio page: zarfhome.com/portfolio/

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Reviews time! South of Midnight Old Skies The Horror at Highrook Lab Rat blog.zarfhome.com/2025/05/spri...

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This is proper intersectional stuff - if you’re into scifi but not games, check it out. If you’re into games but not scifi, check it out. It’s just interesting

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

🎉 YARN SPINNER 3 IS OUT NOW 🎉 for Unity, Godot, VSCode + try.yarnspinner.dev Including: - Storylets, enums, simple "run this bit only once" syntax - Better variables, easier-to-customise views - Bugfixes + QoL improvements galore - All-new docs + guides Check it out at yarnspinner.dev/v3 💚

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Fish fragrant eggplant! It's good! (Does not contain fish. This is the same syntactical construct as "chicken-fried steak".)

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I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

A lot of Old Skies players have asked how old Fia is, so I thought I’d answer that from an acting perspective: She’s anywhere from 30-60. In 2062 age expectancy and quality of life have risen a lot, so middle age spans a long time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Okay, I have looked at spoilers for the next thing I need to do in Blue Prince, and it's time to say I'm done with Blue Prince! Awesome game! Recommended! Bye bye.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Yeah, just like with "73 Yards", I'm going to spend the next while pacing around my apartment trying to understand how that worked so completely fucking well

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Remember the Myst graph post from March? Guillaume Lethuillier has now posted the Myst extractor source code. github.com/glthr/DeMyst...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote some about the current Worldcon scandal. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/05/seri... Not a Hugo Award scandal this time -- directly -- but the lead Hugo admins have resigned anyway. Probably over this. Maybe not!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

New fan-created Age in Myst Online! Sameehn, a small salt-mining Age with a couple of puzzles. (If you haven't been in MOUL for a while, you'll have to locate the Explorers' Emporium and solve puzzles there to reach the Sameehn linking book.)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I will be demoing recent projects at Made In MA this Thursday night! gamedev.boston/events/made-... Free event, downtown Boston. PAX-adjacent but you don't need a PAX badge to enter. Hope to see you there!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Dug these LEFT/RIGHT signs out of a drawer. I made these in high school. They're transparent plastic, so I could put them in my car windshield, in the bottom left and right corners. (I am not very good at telling "left" from "right" when someone shouts driving directions at me.)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I need a project. What's a narrative tool project that nobody's done that you would use? Some missing Godot plugin? Dialogue authoring spreadsheet? Interactive comic framework? Bonus points if you'd pay me money for it, obviously, but that's not a requirement.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Our next game has entered full production mode and it’s very exciting. If you like solving mysteries please stay tuned 🔎 #gamedev

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

"ALL IRREGULARITIES WILL BE HANDLED BY THE FRAGGLES CONTROLLING EACH DIMENSION. WEMBLEY AND GOBO HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

okokok, what about a game like blue prince but it's an adaptation of piranesi

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Dreamed about an alternate world where dried fruit etc was referred to as "widespread". Widespread tomatoes, e.g.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The IF Archive now has a search page! search.ifarchive.org/search How this came to be, a mere 25 years after the web site first went up: blog.zarfhome.com/2025/04/ifar...

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As I close in on the third-or-fourth layer of secrets after room 46, I got excited about this recipe: pixelatedprovisions.com/2025/04/23/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I started South of Midnight. Setting and voices are great, but wow, the gameplay is like a museum piece from the 90s. Oh, well, I enjoyed a lot of 90s games back in the 90s.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I would buy new hardware to play the Fireproof VR games. Just not hardware that goes on my face. Where are the PC hand controllers for playing haptic-immersive games on a regular old monitor?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments