{"podcast":{"title":"Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!","slug":"nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517","podcast_index_feed_id":731517,"rss_url":"https://nicegames.club/feed/podcast","website_url":"https://nicegames.club/","image_url":"https://nicegames.club/sites/default/files/Logo_20200211.jpg","author":"Lydia, Stephen, and Mark","episode_count":521,"summary":"The podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming and game development. Nice!","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T22:18:22.884942+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517"},"episode":{"title":"Interactive Fiction Communities (with Andrew Plotkin)","slug":"interactive-fiction-communities-with-andrew-plotkin","published_at":"2026-05-14T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517/interactive-fiction-communities-with-andrew-plotkin","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517","url":"https://nicegames.club/episode/431","audio_url":"https://stream.redcircle.com/episodes/1f5891d4-49f4-4891-87a8-651c85953cd1/stream.mp3","summary":"Warm weather is on the way and you need to stay hydrated. As a start, take a sip of water every time you hear the phrase \"in the 90's.\" This week we're learning about Interactive Fiction - its history, communities, and transformations over the years - from living archive of the medium, Andrew Plotkin. As a bonus, Stephen discovers that he isn't the only one who is wrong about things! Credit for this episode's extra-thorough show notes goes to Andrew. Thanks, Andrew! Interactive Fiction Communities Events IRL Narrative Colossal Cave Adventure - William Crowther and Donald Woods , The Interactive Fiction Database The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 Interactive Fiction Competition (ongoing since 1995!) - Interactive Fiction Competition Inform IF language launched around 1993 (https://www.inform-fiction.org/). You can find the modern version at https://inform7.com/ This allowed people to create games for Infocom’s original Z-machine, which was invented as a proprietary system in 1979 but is now open-source. The modern version of the IF community's FTP site - Interactive Fiction Archive Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation Narrascope Conference Twine - Chris Klimas , Twinery Rise of the Video Game Zinesters - Anna Anthropy , Amazon The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) - Elizabeth Sandifer , Eruditorum Press Andrew's Interactive Fiction and Game recommendations - IFcomp 2025 winners - Type Help - Roottrees are dead - Return of the Obra Dinn - Murder at the Birch Tree Theater","meta_description":"Warm weather is on the way and you need to stay hydrated. As a start, take a sip of water every time you hear the phrase \"in the 90's.\" This week we're le…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":null,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517/episodes/interactive-fiction-communities-with-andrew-plotkin/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-games-club-a-gamedev-podcast-731517/interactive-fiction-communities-with-andrew-plotkin.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}