VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Zarf Updates - Interactive Fiction Archive search feature

   2025-05-10
   game/interactive-fiction programming/python search-engine

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   • IF Archive Search Page
   • searchlib/cli.py @240e47c
   • Sygil-Dev/whoosh-reloaded - A fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python
2. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text

   2025-01-21
   command-line documentary game/interactive-fiction history

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3. Zork: The Great Inner Workings

   2025-01-21
   command-line game/interactive-fiction game/zork history parser programming/c programming/fortran programming/go programming/lisp

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   It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

   • Zork: The Great Underground Empire
   • Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.
   • The Visible Zorker
   • r/raldi - I spent my weekend hacking Zork
   • historicalsource/zork1
   • historicalsource/zork-fortran
   • MITDDC/zork
   • jeffnyman/zmachine
   • ZoBoRf/ZILCH-How-to
   • ajdnik/gozork
4. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
5. Arwes - Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

   2023-07-22
   programming/css programming/javascript science-fiction

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   • arwes/arwes
   • Docs
   • Playground
6. 50 Years of Text Games - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction

   2023-07-22
   artificial-intelligence book command-line game/interactive-fiction game/roguelike graphics/2d procedural-generation text

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   • 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre
7. Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

   2020-12-13
   community fan fan-art fiction knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark software tag web

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   • Pinboard Feature Requests
   • pinboard-dev Google Group
8. How the tech sector could move in One Direction — Sacha Judd

   2020-12-13
   community development fiction forum gender music personal-knowledge/blog social-media software web

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   via https://musicmachinery.com/2020/09/09/my-favorite-blog-post-of-all-time/

9. RTSL | Finishing Half-Life is just the beginning!

   2019-06-08
   community fps game game/half-life mod science-fiction

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10. Rocannon: Vim for Ansible playbooks: omni-completion, abbreviations, syntax, folding, K-docs, and colorscheme

    2018-10-25
    completion configuration-management/ansible editor editor/vim programming/yaml science-fiction

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11. GNU Terry Pratchett

    2018-10-16
    discworld fantasy gnu header literature nerd network/http science-fiction

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    • http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Clacks
    • http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/genclacks.php
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/
    • https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code
12. Never-Before-Seen Concept Art from David Cronenberg's Total Recall!

    2018-07-04
    art movie science-fiction

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13. Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

    2018-05-18
    fiction game graph interactive story

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    • https://github.com/tweecode
    • https://github.com/klembot/twinejs
14. FangleTronics: DIY Millennium Falcon

    2018-02-27
    diy science-fiction space spaceship star-wars toy wood

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    • http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/10/diy-star-wars-toys.html
15. Alain Damasio : « La science-fiction est le genre littéraire majeur. »

    2018-02-22
    book fiction novel science society story technology

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16. EPIC Doctor Who Theme (Orchestral Cover)

    2018-01-05
    cover doctor fiction science theme who

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17. The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine

    2017-08-17
    assistant fiction privacy science voice

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18. Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

    2017-07-16
    artificial-intelligence fiction movie neural-network science

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19. Midnight. Swordfight.

    2017-04-16
    fiction game interactive mask role time

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20. An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia' | GamingOnLinux

    2017-02-02
    fiction game hardcore linux science simulation space survival

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    "Currently I am coding love and relationships into the game, and am having to deal with some colonists who are getting a bit polyamorous with the non-sentient furniture items. I am yet to decide as to whether this is a bug."