I put a review on IFDB some years ago if anyone’s interested:
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This is a big one, folks! Remember us when you’ve hit the majors, @cchennnn!
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Oh wow!
Well-done, Autumn!!
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Earlier today, I was talking with two of my friends about a song I was writing, about a conspiracy group (fictional and very darkly comedic). The lyrics reference the “Long Water, 4 o’clock” part of Trinity, and Kensington Park, etc. I told them that it referenced “Trinity” and they just said “oh yeah, Trinity! We know that one.” I proceeded to ask if they meant “the really old one about nuclear bombs”. They said yes and said they knew about it before.
It wasn’t me who told them, surprisingly. And they have never played a text adventure before in my life.
This gets even weirder if you know a little bit about me.
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So just for reference, Trinity was a nuclear test in real life. Not sure if they thought you meant that.
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Oh, I know 
They mentioned they hadn’t “played that game” but wanted to (regarding Trinity).
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WHOOO Autumn!
Let’s do everything we can to keep Autumn’s viral status going, y’all! Plug this game mercilessly everywhere. More attention to Autumn = more attention to the whole IF world.
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The IF-world’s Atlas. Quite the responsability.
I’ve gotten some good responses to Social Democracy from friends I know to be avid readers and politically minded. Maybe if they also share it with some of their friends…
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Ack, I didn’t mean we should lay the weight of the IF community on Autumn’s shoulders! Quite the opposite-- we should all lift this game up as much as we can because:
1.) Everyone should play Autumn’s games because they kick ass, and
2.) IF doesn’t get viral moments that often, and hopefully some people will say “I love this kind of game! I want to play more like it!” and will find their way to IFDB. A win for one could be a win for all if we all do our part.
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Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese has a hidden text adventure in it that is actually based on the actual locations and events in the game.
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Possibly only IF adjacent, but in Liberty - Vigilance, episode 2 (from Fool & Scholar Productions) the protagonists play part of a text based RPG as part of their ongoing investigations.
Edit, spelling.
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Somebody alerted me to this:
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lol I had this correctly pegged from the first sentence, but it still made me chuckle.
Makes me wonder if that guy also enjoyed that famous novel about agrarian reform, Anna Karenina.
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I also find it interesting that the name of the question person is DavidW, which immediately make me think: David Welbourn.
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In the Superhero Web Serial Worm by Wildbow, one of the main viewpoint character’s team mates goes by the name Grue when in costume. His powers? He produces a black, oily substance that fills a region around him and anyone within his area of effect is plunged into darkness that renders sight useless and makesother senses much less useful while his darkness is as clear as ordinary air to Grue himself. I’m sure his name and powers are a reference to the darkness dwelling, man-eating creatures from the Zork games though I only made the connection upon replaying Zork years after reading Worm.
Can’t remember the title, but there’s a Harry Potter fanfic, I believe the premise was Harry is rescued from the Dursleys and adopted by the Goblins of Gringotts where there’s a chase scene through the I believe the caverns under the bank, where the maze of twisty little passages, all alike line shows up.
Also, while books about gaming history aren’t that uncommon on Kickstarter, I was surprised that someone did a book all about this specific genre when I stumbled upon 50 Years of Text Games.
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That would be our very own Aaron Reed! He’s around on the forums from time to time.
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Note to self, I really ought to get around to actually reading 50 Years of Text Gaming. I don’t even have the friction of PDF being a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad format and it came in a ascii encoded .txt format, the king of eBook formats if you ask me, and yet I backed it for the Ultimate Collector’s edition and haven’t gotten around to reading it.
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It’s honestly an excellent read. Aaron is a great writer. It’s written well enough that someone otherwise indifferent to IF could enjoy reading it.
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Today I visited the stacks at the computer science library at my local university for the first time. I had to go down a long spiral staircase underground, where I was greeted by this sign:
[Image of a sign in a library notifying people the lights in remote stacks are motion-detected and not to worry about being eaten by a grue if they step into the dark because the lights will turn on automatically.]
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