Solve a murder in the future by diving into its Wikipedia

I think of you at every station. I still talk to you in my head. I have to talk about you in past tense. I still choke on "was". In Minneapo

I think of you at every station. I still talk to you in my head. I have to talk about you in past tense. I still choke on "was". In Minneapo

I wasn't blogging in 2006, but I was a regular commenter on the Nielsen Haydens' blog Making Light in the year and on the morning that I read "Mike Ford is gone." I found the comment which I posted tw...

Three mysteries... or games which are mystery-shaped, at least. Plus one which doesn't fit the theme but does fit the symmetry group. The Mermaid Mask This Bed We Made Cognition Method He Who Watches ...

Back in April I took a look at the Hugo Award finalists, with an eye to seeing how the votes might divide up. I did this because the 2025 Best Game voting showed an interesting split between "indie" a...

A software exhibit that allows you to explore The Witness and also The Witness's source code at the same time.

I am always happy to see another Rusty Lake game. It's not a high-velocity studio, but they're reliably high-quality and enjoy experimenting with their chosen form. (Co-op gameplay! Short film!) I am ...

How we made save games in The Roottrees are Dead and The Incident at Galley House resilient to full disks and failing hard drives.

Apparently today is the worst possible day to post about Zork the text adventure? See articles about Duskbloods if you don't follow FromSoftware news, which, to be clear, I don't. Spoiler: everybody's...

Back in March I made a lot of hay about the decline of GDC. I didn't confidently predict that GDC'27 would be cancelled, but cancellation wouldn't have surprised me. Well, GDC'27 isn't cancelled. Whic...

The Fool and his Money - Keygen and Decompilation. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Two articles have popped up in the wake of Cyan's fandom-rattling pitch reel for Anglerfish. To recap from last week: Anglerfish was the Myst-universe project that Cyan started prototyping in 2024. Th...

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After 14 years, I decided to retire Playfic, an online community for writing and sharing interactive fiction made with Inform 7. All the games will stay online indefinitely.

You can buy an ebook of Tales from Rugosa Coven and start reading it immediately now. If you pre-ordered a paper copy, it's already on its w

August brings us Suspended, Michael Berlyn's cryogenic nightmare. As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with the open-source MIT license. Suspended surely had the most inspired p...

The rest of my 2026 Mysterium report. (See part 1 for the Cyan news.) All the videos are currently available on Mysterium's Twitch channel. They will be archived on their Youtube channel pretty soon. ...

Another Mysterium has arrived and then faded silently away. Or, I suppose, faded away with its characteristic reverb-y "vrrrwww-WONK-wonk-wonk" noise. This year's event was in Portland, Oregon. I did ...

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I'm embarrassed about this one. The Witness will be September's release for the Visible Zorker project, but it's already done for Patreon supporters. So I've scanned my Witness feelies for the app alr...