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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we are getting close to a second playtest for Inherent Depravity, the RE fangame. There's a big set piece sort of boss fight thing to wrap up, and I need to write some in-world texts. I wonder how people will feel about it? It's going to be Very Drew Cook

Inform IDE compile report: 77395 words, 65 rooms, 248 things

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am still working on the Inform survival horror game! The map is maybe 2/3 finished

An overhead grid map for an old-fashioned text adventure game

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What is the secret of… Inherent Depravity? An Inform thing this Spring

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

They say Suspended is the rarest and most expensive infocom game.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

Album cover for the Guided by Voices album "Propeller"

A simplistic, pixelated image of a propeller airplane over a black and orange background.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Heartbreaking: another cat is in your bed

A black cat with large eyes looking down sadly

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

my condensed map of Zork II's geography for the WIP. I've set everything on a grid to accomodate the automap extension with minimal fuss

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Inspired by all the "I need AI art for my cover because I can't draw" hand-wringing (I have familiar tremors and can't even write legibly), I found a bit of public domain art and put powerpoint filters on it. 30 minute cover art gang, let's go!

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thanks to some new tricks I learned writing Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight, I'll be doing another (final?) release of Repeat the Ending to use Bisquixe web styling and the latest version of Story Mode. Soon!

A screenshot of the interactive fiction game Repeat the Ending playing in a web browser.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Portrait with Wolf is choice-based Inform work inspired by the IF art shows of old. Bleak, poetic, nonsensical even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you I made it for Spring Thing www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

4/? Today's recommendation is Wayfarers, a rather stunning interactive fiction debut by Gina Isabel Rodriguez. www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🧵 3/? Radiance Inviolate is a Twine work by DemonApologist. The language is laden with sensual density, and I gobbled it in one sitting. Recommended! www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🧵 2/? I experienced Spring Gothic, a kinetic visual novel, as a way to practice what I'd call "radical vulnerability." The narrative voices are genuine and affecting. A tale of post-proximal, post-covid romance. It's by Prof. Lily. www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

Two young women sitting back-to-back, each holding a laptop computer in their laps. Their expressions are hard-to-place. A faint smile, perhaps?

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

whew! productive day. got all the postgame content into the wolf/art show/widget... need to spellcheck and try to reread all of the text (it's hard to do!) maybe I'll have a release candidate/final test situation early in the week.

a sketch of what seems a scaled, dragon-like wolf's head

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Testing to see if displaying images from wade clarke’s menus extension would look ok on my phone. Seems ok!

An interactive fiction text game interface displaying an image of a small black cat.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

After a bit of writing today, I resumed my attempted S Rank run of Inferno difficulty in Resident Evil 3. It's not too painful with unlocks. The game is hardest in the first half due to all the attention from Nemesis.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

About to square off with some evil stylists

Some well-dressed video game villains in dark clothing and sunglasses

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some good video games there 🏆💍

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

updated my itch.io AI disclosures, for those of you wondering if the orange-eyed woman came from robots

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Pretty good IF day; wrote a review and am nearly finished with a draft of my educational jam game. #interactivefiction #topexpert #letsmakeIF

Screenshot of a text game. Text:

After Lunch
[To edit what prints here, Drew, Marbles, and D updated the "table of room descriptions." Since this is the second turn or choice node, they put this text in row two.]

Whew! I bet you feel better now, huh Marbles? I'm going to play some games for a while. You can keep yourself busy with this catnip mouse. There you go! Get it!

[The below texts regarding choices can be found in Books 6 and 7 of the template.]

I had a bunch of games for my Commodore 64, mostly copied by my friend's big brother. He's in high school! What did I want to play?

(1) Zork III
(2) A different part from Zork III
(3) The Lurking Horror
(4) Spellbreaker

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Picked up the yarnham hunter’s set, a kind of 90s goth nightclub take on the normal hunter’s garb. It has a few belts, and is a good look. Leveling goals: vitality to 30, endurance to 25, strength to 20.

My bloodborne character wearing a modernized-yet-Victorian black leather trenchcoat. A large, full moon hangs low in the sky behind her.

RPG stats for my character. Vitality 22. Endurance 22. Strength 17. Skill 15. Bloodtinge 9. Arcane 18. Level 53.

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My cat lemur (aka baby lee) lying on my shrink-wrapped “cyborg enforcer” edition of the System Shock remake. Between pledging that ks and getting my stuff I moved twice, got an MFA, got married, and adopted four cats. Long enough to forget why I pledged 😭

A black cat sitting on a black box beside some AD&D books and a sealed copy of Zork I

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This time out, I am trying to use Arcane a bit; I've never really messed with it. My big heavy sword scales damage with it, so I'll focus on getting my Arcane up for the next several levels. Will this actually be good? I don't know! #videogames #bloodborne #fromsoft

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

today's biggest surprise is that itch user profiles have fields for everything but Tumblr. #itch.io #tumblr

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