The history of making games in the 80's Infocom etc

[Mclaneinc]

Saw a link to this elsewhere, hope its not been posted already..

 

Has our own super hero, Kevin Savetz in it as well as a wealth of stars of our gaming world (in general)..

 

Not looked at it much (only just found it) but did seem very interesting..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApokWvnUjIE

Edited April 27, 2019 by Mclaneinc

[bfollowell]

I've always been a huge fan of Interactive Fiction in general, and Infocom and Scott Adams specifically. I'll definitely add that to my Watch Later list.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[+DrVenkman]

Cool - added to my Watch Later list as well.

 

Of course, any fan in interactive fiction should check out the Digital Antiquarian - he’s documented the creation of a *lot* of IF stuff and Infocom titles in particular.

 

https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/

[tschak909]

Watched the live stream.

 

I am so glad that the Infocom games have been liberated and curated. For the first time in history, a _very_ large cache of ZIL code is now out in the open, not only for academic study, but also to use as a base for new interactive fiction using ZIL (to complement efforts being done in Inform, Twine, etc.)

 

This is precisely how each of the Infocom games were made, BITD, by building a kernel of code around the game closest to the one you were trying to make, and subsequently extending it.

 

The code is here:

https://github.com/historicalsource

 

Mirror the whole thing, if you can, there's good history here, and we need mirrors of it.

 

-Thom

Edited April 27, 2019 by tschak909