Zarf Updates

Back in April I took a look at the Hugo Award finalists, with an eye to seeing how the votes might divide up.

September is upon us, and with it that least regarded of the early Infocom games: The Witness.

I am always happy to see another Rusty Lake game.

Apparently today is the worst possible day to post about Zork the text adventure?

Back in March I made a lot of hay about the decline of GDC.

Two articles have popped up in the wake of Cyan's fandom-rattling pitch reel for Anglerfish.

August brings us Suspended, Michael Berlyn's cryogenic nightmare.

The rest of my 2026 Mysterium report.

Another Mysterium has arrived and then faded silently away.

I'm embarrassed about this one.

Here's an interesting bit of game-historic preservation: someone has posted a browser-playable version of Cliff Johnson's epic (and epically-slow-to-release) 2012 puzzle game, The Fool and his Money.

What a wonderful time to be a puzzle fiend!

I tried to give this post an eye-catching title like "The Power of Indentation!"

Borneo, 1941: rich white Brits run the show for tobacco, pearls and the opium trade, while World War Two creeps up around the edges.

As promised, the latest from the Visible Zorker project: Visible Starcross!

I have no hot take, but I did post this last year: Another Valve hardware announcement: the Steam Machine is back.

Last month I saw a reference to the "You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam": This is a game jam for games that do not exist.

Not a Monty Python reference (unless you really want one), but rather: it's still spring (barely) and here's some games that surprised me.

I posted a couple of weeks ago about Infocom tie-in novels, with a bit of a digression on the work of George Alec Effinger.

Welcome to June.

A musical city, a record store, and a 90s soundtrack album!

Last week someone passed around a link to a post: "Classic Zork Novels, Now in E-book Format!"

Titanium Court is a stylized match-3 battle game in which you are possibly kidnapped by fairies.

"What is the first computer game that you played?"

A couple of months ago I referred to a quote from Infocom's internal ZIL manual: The other four tokens—ON-GROUND, IN-ROOM, HELD, and CARRIED—are incredibly confusing, and no one really understands them except Stu, so he should probably write this bit. --…