1. Being Andrew Plotkin - Details - The Interactive Fiction Database
10 feb 2024 · The tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall issues from the darkness." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]. Read ...
"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under your knees and palms. The secret door bangs shut and disappears. The tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall issues from the darkness." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
2. Being Andrew Plotkin - The Good Old Days
29 sep 2024 · After some first, innocent outings of just watching the world through his eyes, the two then proceed to try and control his actions (subtext: ...
Having received basically every honour and award there is in the modern day IF world, Being Andrew Plotkin is an adaption (or rather a ‘reimagination’) of the movie Being John Malkovich – with the person who probably comes closest to being something of a ‘star’ in the IF scene taking over Malkovich’s role: Andrew Plotkin, author of many modern classics.
3. Andrew Plotkin - IFWiki
2 sep 2024 · Winner of Best Puzzles and Best Use of Medium at the XYZZY Awards 2004; also was a finalist for Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best ...
4. Game - Being Andrew Plotkin - iFiction
Being Andrew Plotkin. File Room Score: 0 Moves: 1 At last, your troubled fortunes seemed to come to an end. It all happened very quickly: the callback from ...
File Room Score: 0 Moves: 1 At last, your troubled fortunes seemed to come to an end. It all happened very quickly: the callback from Red Hat, the bizarre interview with Human Resources, the handshake, the filling out of W-2 forms, and then your first day of work. You thought maybe your experience writing Interactive Fiction games (sixteenth place in the last IF Comp, a good improvement from 33rd place the year before that) had finally landed you a programming job. But no, you seemed to qualify only for menial clerical work. You took it. What else could you do? Sigh. File Room This bleak room with its short, slumping ceiling does nothing to brighten your morale. Short file cabinets, marked in reverse alphabetical order, crawl in a line along the walls like an army of stupid robots. One measly window lets in a tiny square of sunlight....
5. Exploring the 'Best Games': So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
1 jul 2016 · I've decided to go through the list of XYZZY Best Games again and examine what makes them the great in my eyes or the eyes of the voters.
I’ve decided to go through the list of XYZZY Best Games again and examine what makes them the great in my eyes or the eyes of the voters. I’m starting with So Far, by Andrew Plotkin. Here are some things that makes this game effective for me. ==Coherent Story== As I mentioned in a review of Curses!, many of the best games have tightly-focused narratives that revisit the same themes over and over again. So Far does this very well. Everyone can interpret the themes in different ways, because t...
6. So Far - Details - The Interactive Fiction Database
Text adventure games are typically solitary affairs by their very nature, so it's nice to see Plotkin incorporating this into the plot of the game. (re-posted ...
Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar surroundings... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
7. Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin) - Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
30 okt 2014 · Hadean Lands is Andrew Plotkin's massive parser IF game about an alchemy-driven spaceship. It's been several years in the making, after a ...
Hadean Lands is Andrew Plotkin’s massive parser IF game about an alchemy-driven spaceship. It’s been several years in the making, after a substantial Kickstarter. And it’s now ava…
8. The Joy of Things Being Things - The Space Under the Window (Andrew ...
26 aug 2020 · here's Plotkin explaining how to play: Your part is to type the names of objects (or attributes or aspects of objects) that you see in the ...
“The window is closed, so you can’t go inside.” This is the entirety of the opening to Andrew Plotkin’s The Space Under the Window, a game that continues to inspire me twenty plus years on. (Twenty plus years? I just turned to dust.) The spirit of its teasing opacity is clearly present in Her Story’s […]
9. Exploring the 'Best Games': Being Andrew Plotkin
5 jul 2016 · BAP (being andrew plotkin) is remarkable for having 4 NPCs: the humans Peter and Valerie, the robot Melvin, and Zarf (Andrew Plotkin) himself.
I think it’s amusing that the first 5 winners of the XYZZY Best Games were Andrew Plotkin, Adam Cadre, Andrew Plotkin, Adam Cadre, and then Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler. This winner is unusual in many ways. It was the first IFCOMP game to win best game. It is one of only 4 games that won XYZZY but did not win IFCOMP (the others being The Elysium Enigma, Blue Chairs and Birdland). It was written in a single month, between September 1 and October 1. It is far more linear and short...
10. Hadean Lands Review by metzomagic.com
I first came across the name Andrew Plotkin over 15 years ago, back in the day when I was a reviewer and editor at Games Domain Review.
Hadean Lands
11. About Me - Zarf Updates
Andrew Plotkin is a freelance game designer and interactive fiction guru. ... All of my old posts and their comments have been ... All posts copyright by Andrew ...
Interactive fiction, narrative in games, and so on
12. Being Andrew Plotkin - Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Posts about Being Andrew Plotkin written by Emily Short. ... It also has a button that taps straight into IFDB, and downloading a new game adds it and its cover ...
Posts about Being Andrew Plotkin written by Emily Short
13. ClubFloyd - July 11, 2009 - Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson ...
11 jul 2009 · Being Andrew Plotkin by J. ... Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | It is the classic dead end. ... are done with the game. and seem to have ...
Internet site of Jacqueline A. Lott.
14. Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler as Celie Paradis [Comp00]
24 sep 2020 · ... game. I love it when I'm still thinking about a game long after I've played it, still having little “aha!” moments making connections and ...
IFDB page: Being Andrew Plotkin Final placement: 3rd place (of 53) in the 2000 Interactive Fiction Competition I was the perfect audience for this game, or...
15. The Stack » Andrew Plotkin - Wurb
... game on the Stack, even though I did post about it. That very game is on the HL CD as well, and it would be strange to suddenly declare that it counts here ...
Posted September 22, 2022
16. About Cold Iron - E BLONG
... Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@eblong.com). It may be distributed for free, but ... A few days after IFComp ended, we posted an announcement that there was a metapuzzle ...
Cold Iron is copyright 2011 by Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@eblong.com). It may be distributed for free, but not sold or included in any for-profit collection without written permission from the author.
17. Zarfhome Software
Zarfhome: Let me show you something you haven't seen. Andrew Plotkin ... Got a problem? Privacy policy. Games are for everyone ... After half an hour you'll be in ...
18. Articles by Andrew Plotkin - NarraScope
This workshop will teach attendees how to use the free, open-source interactive narrative and game development tool, Yarn Spinner. ... Friday workshops are still ...
NarraScope
19. Andrew Plotkin The Dreamhold Software - Narrabase
Plotkin has worked on game design and game tools ... after nuances and implications. ... On the other hand, in-game hints are available, and the game cannot be made ...
Andrew Plotkin, The Dreamhold