"From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction"

New article at ArsTechnica, interviewing me and a bunch of other community regulars. Thanks to Anna Washenko.

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That is lovely. Really comprehensive, right through to today. I’ve been sharing it lots of places.

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This has now been linked on IFWiki’s page about the history of IF, and on the IFWiki pages of the people interviewed. (Unless I overlooked someone. I counted eight people who were quoted.)

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Hello! I’m Anna, the author. Amazing to have the article on IFWiki in such illustrious company, thank you all for the kind responses!

(And yes, you’ve got all eight.)

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I’m surprised by the interviewers, albeit I note an increasing interest in historical matters (e.g. that article on the history of fallout: Van Buren)

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

a friendly warning: the last page can potentially ruin your rendering of Being Andrew Plotkin :wink: