That's the final dollar amount of Zarf's fundraiser. I know, right?

Warmest congratulations and excitements to radiotelescope, who will officially launch his full-time, solo game-development career with the start of 2011! It's been a long time coming.

Today's the final day of Zarf's Kickstarter drive. It hit 300% funding weeks ago, and we're vying to get him over $30,000 (and nearly 400%!) before midnight.

I wrote more about this over on The Gameshelf. Summary: supporting this work isn't just a pledge to help improve the state of modern interactive fiction. It also helps prove that passionate ( ( Read more... )

I'm going to the Boston interactive fiction meetup tonight, 6:30, at MIT 14N-233 (Nick Montfort's office). Guest: Steve Meretzky. Come join!

(Ha ha, that was totally my first-ever pasted-in Tweet, suckas.)

http://groups.google.com/group/boston-if?hl=en

This looks like it might be worth my while to come to and bring some Jmac's Arcades. Anyone wanna come with? I feel antsy that I haven't made any in three months, even though I have the inspiration for the next one; the other pillars just win out in the continual fight over motivation. So this might give it a little boost.

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VC dood meeting went quite well, I thought. He quoted Zork at us before either of us went into our gaming backgrounds, which may simply mean that he did some homework about us, but it certainly set the mood for the rest of the conversation. (Even better, he misquoted Zork and then asked us to correct him. "How does it go? 'You are standing outside ( Read more... )

Need an idea for your first Inform 7 game? OK, maybe just for the titles. And Italian shlock-horror pen names.

I finally finished Emily Short's Bronze. It took me several hours, spread over a few weekends. It is good; you should play it. Fans of fairy-tale reconstructions may especially like it, and IF newbies may also like it since it has a tutorial mode and a hint system, but I did not use these so I cannot speak for them. The manual is very nice, though ( Read more... )

I saw Touch of Evil last night with daerr. I liked it and recommend it, though can't call it a great movie because the whole Janet Leigh subplot is kind of dopey. (LITERALLY HA HA.) Excellent and stylish piece of noir, though. Try to see the less-bastardized cut that was assembled in 1998; this is what the TiVo grabbed from TCM ( Read more... )

I'm going to be upset all day today because I missed a dear friend's party last night. It was billed as a house-cooling but amounted to a going-away party too, since this is why the house was being cooled. And I just forgot to go. This sort of thing just gnaws at me all day long ( Read more... )

Right now, shipping three people from Boston to Columbus n back 'round Origins-time is $1,200, total. We're gonna wait and see if that gets better over the next few days, but the Andys have made it clear that driving just won't work, so we might just have to take the hit ( Read more... )