VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, documentary, game/interactive-fiction, history

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2. Zork: The Great Inner Workings 2025-01-21

   tags: 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
3. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: 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
4. Arwes - Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework 2023-07-22

   tags: programming/css, programming/javascript, science-fiction

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   • arwes/arwes
   • Docs
   • Playground
5. 50 Years of Text Games - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction 2023-07-22

   tags: 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
6. Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk 2020-12-13

   tags: community, fan, fan-art, fiction, knowledge, personal-knowledge/bookmark, software, tag, web

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   • Pinboard Feature Requests
   • pinboard-dev Google Group
7. How the tech sector could move in One Direction — Sacha Judd 2020-12-13

   tags: 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/

8. RTSL | Finishing Half-Life is just the beginning! 2019-06-08

   tags: community, fps, game, game/half-life, mod, science-fiction

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9. Rocannon: Vim for Ansible playbooks: omni-completion, abbreviations, syntax, folding, K-docs, and colorscheme 2018-10-25

   tags: completion, configuration-management/ansible, editor, editor/vim, programming/yaml, science-fiction

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10. GNU Terry Pratchett 2018-10-16

    tags: 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
11. Never-Before-Seen Concept Art from David Cronenberg's Total Recall! 2018-07-04

    tags: art, movie, science-fiction

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12. Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories 2018-05-18

    tags: fiction, game, graph, interactive, story

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    • https://github.com/tweecode
    • https://github.com/klembot/twinejs
13. FangleTronics: DIY Millennium Falcon 2018-02-27

    tags: diy, science-fiction, space, spaceship, star-wars, toy, wood

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    • http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/10/diy-star-wars-toys.html
14. Alain Damasio : « La science-fiction est le genre littéraire majeur. » 2018-02-22

    tags: book, fiction, novel, science, society, story, technology

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15. EPIC Doctor Who Theme (Orchestral Cover) 2018-01-05

    tags: cover, doctor, fiction, science, theme, who

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16. The Perfect Match - Lightspeed Magazine 2017-08-17

    tags: assistant, fiction, privacy, science, voice

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17. Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense 2017-07-16

    tags: artificial-intelligence, fiction, movie, neural-network, science

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18. Midnight. Swordfight. 2017-04-16

    tags: fiction, game, interactive, mask, role, time

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19. An interview with Simon Roth, the developer of space colony simulator 'Maia' | GamingOnLinux 2017-02-02

    tags: 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."

20. Inform - design system for interactive fiction based on natural language 2016-10-16

    tags: fiction, game, language, literate, programming, story

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    via http://ifdb.tads.org/