Did you know? The Spring Thing Festival of IF started a few days ago! Play some games here:
www.springthing.net/2026/

and then come discuss them here:
intfiction.org

Moonmist: Dead Girl A treatment of the themes and mechanics of Infocom's Moonmist.

ICYMI: I wrapped up my series on Infocom's Moonmist last week.
golmac.org/dead-girl-mo...

Moonmist: Dead Girl A treatment of the themes and mechanics of Infocom's Moonmist.

That wraps it up for Moonmist. Only 13 more to go.

golmac.org/dead-girl-mo...

How to Become a Famous Artist

two men are standing next to each other with nbc hd written on the bottom right ALT: two men are standing next to each other with nbc hd written on the bottom right

"I would like to make your high effort thing all about me"

thebitingcat - Twitch omg I got a pc

I'm going to try out Cult of the Lamb in 20 min

www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY, is out today!

This collection of queer gothic fiction includes my short story, “Our Cavalier Consecrate,” and its art.

An unsealed demon struggles to escape the clutches of paladins, historians, and the severed stone head of his miserable ex.

books2read.com/u/3Lz617

Graphic with text reading: OUT NOW A TIMELESS COLLECTION OF QUEER GOTHIC TALES TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY CURATED BY JUNIPER LAKE FITZGERALD

graphic with text: A TIMELESS COLLECTION OF QUEER GOTHIC TALES OUR CAVALIER CONSECRATE - DEMONAPOLOGIST THE ROT BENEATH - MARAT EARENDEL EMERGE - BAILEY ELIZABETH OMEN - JUNIPER LAKE FITZGERALD JUST LIKE OLD TIMES - TYLER ISAAC ICHOR - ARTEMY MANDUS DANCE MACABRE - T. L. MORGAN NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD - TABITHA O'CONNELL WHERE THE STARS HAVE NO REACH - BAY SHUFORD BEST AND BRIGHTEST - W. PAYNE SILLAVAN A BLOOM OF DAFFODILS - EZRA WREN TORMENT: A GOTHIC ANTHOLOGY

graphic with heading "eleven authors" and eleven author photos/portraits/representations.

graphic with header "four artworks" and four black and white illustrations. @ me if you'd like a full description!

Torment: A Gothic Anthology, curated by @ardentgrove.bsky.social, is out today!! I was a co-editor and have my own story in the collection, which channels my trauma from being raised AFAB in a conservative Christian society and was very cathartic to write!

Purchase links: books2read.com/u/3Lz617

Didn't really vibe with the Fatal Frame II Remake demo (whew, what a mouthful) 😔

I'm sure I'll get it eventually, but it doesn't feel like a launch day purchase.

Bummer! I was looking forward to it.

Attempting to follow everyone active in the IBM PCjr community - if you see this, let's get connected. #PCjr

Paratext in Infocom's Moonmist A review of Paratext in Infocom's Moonmist when viewed within the context of other games of the period.

It's time for more Moonmist. Most contemporary players resent the paratext. Why is that?

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Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

thebitingcat - Twitch omg I got a pc

I'll be streaming some of the new Resident Evil game tonight at 830 PM CST. I try to keep these streams to 90 minutes.

I have avoided spoilers, so who knows what to expect!

www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

The 2026 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction Spring Thing is an annual online festival celebrating new interactive fiction from all kinds of people.

Did you know? Tomorrow is the last day you can submit intent for Spring Thing 2026.

Spring Thing is my favorite IF event. It's unranked and has great vibes. If you've got a cool project going, consider entering!

www.springthing.net/2026/

Wow, that Village placement is bonkers

Album cover for the Guided by Voices album "Propeller" A simplistic, pixelated image of a propeller airplane over a black and orange background.

q: what perfect album came out the year you turned 18?
a:

Girls in Love 51 (712)

Blog post title: "read the manual"

As fellow fans know, Resident Evil: Requiem releases Friday! I'll start a new playthrough Friday night at 830 CST over at Twitch, details to follow

It's hard to believe that that wint's "zero difference between good and bad things" tweet was in 2014

I think you could get closer with a limited parser game, because there isn't a lot account for, but otherwise, you have a lot of verbs to entertain (or not)

It would be hard, as a huge amount of text in a parser game is potentially optional. You can spend a lot of time on feedback for unproductive commands, or none. this was my last estimate

total project words: 133.5k
custom printable text: ~55k
critical path (no examining or failed actions): 29k

My current inform project will almost certainly pass the 200k-word mile marker.

This is more confession than brag.

i put liquids in my inform game, and then I spent two days writing responses for what basically amounts to trolling the parser

the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years

why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make

Animal Games: Spring Thing 2025 Opening Remarks At the time of this writing, I have released three games. The first, Repeat the Ending, made its debut just two years ago. My second and third games were released just over a month ago...

A couple of my Inform games fared well in the recent IFDB Awards polls. You can read my postmortems and find links to the games here:
intfiction.org/t/animal-gam...

Twitch Twitch is the world

I completed my Disco Elysium playthrough last week (it was great), so I've started streaming a very odd game called "Promise Mascot Agency." I'll be on in 45 minutes (830 CST) if you're interested!

www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

I was hoping to shadow drop it right before Review-a-Thon but I don't think I can make it in time. It's just very hard to get something this shaggy into a state I can live with

My Inform project is up to 130k words (text and code together). I'm going to add at least a third more content, but I'm a pretty brutal copyeditor. Who knows how big this thing will be?

I also don't know when it will release, it just isn't an IF Comp game and Spring Thing is too soon

I'm only poring over these Moonmist transcripts because I love you.