Things I've Put Together

I'll leave this here for the time being, but I won't be updating it. Eventually it will go away.

Ok, actually it's just that the names are too long to fit with my OneWord home page motif.

• Markov Chain Texts.
• A word-scrambling program that I wrote a very long time ago. Also, the best results I've gotten from it -- the Revelation of St. Alice, and Alice in Elsinore.

• The Great Icebreaker Game Narrative.
• There was this wacky event, and I decided there should be a suitable story written about it. So I wrote one.

• Capture-the-Flag With Stuff.
• Stuff! Magic! Foam!

• Hand-painted Icehouse pieces, and notes on how to paint your own.

• Hand-painted Arcana pieces, although I don't have pictures of them yet.

• A kinetic laser toy.
• Research on the Modular Multiphasic Laser Output Device.

• Assorted camera images.
• Various images that I've collected from various digital cameras.

• Text adventures.
• Just like in the good old Infocom days. (In fact, they're written using the Z-machine game file format used by Infocom games.) I like to believe that I'm expanding the boundaries of interactive literature. Maybe I'm nuts, but then, people seem to think they're good.

• Text adventure interpreters.
• These are the programs which enable you to run the aforementioned text adventures on your particular machine. I have written nice-looking interpreters for the Z-machine format (used by Infocom as well as my own games ) and for TADS (another popular format.)
  • MaxZip: a Z-machine interpreter for the Mac.
  • XZip: a Z-machine interpreter for Unix/Linux boxes running X windows.
  • MaxTADS: a TADS interpreter for the Mac.

• System's Twilight: An Abstract Fairy Tale
• A shareware puzzle adventure game for the Macintosh.

• Review of Star Wars (Special Edition).
• I saw a nifty movie; I wrote a nifty review. Originally posted on rec.arts.movies.reviews.

• Spellcast: a Game of Duelling Wizards.
• This is an old paper-and-pencil game for two or more players. I implemented it for Unix machines running X Windows. It was quite popular among the sort of people who abandoned their lives for Magic: The Gathering, a year later.

• Praser 5.
• A game I wrote in 1989. It's a peculiar agglomeration of IF and word puzzle. (I make no excuse or explanation.) Originally it was a standalone program and a set of files in my computer account; in 1994 I created a version on the Web. Now it's a Z-code game.

• Reviews of Commercial Games
• Sometimes I write reviews of commercial CD-ROM adventure games. Originally posted on comp.sys.mac.games.adventure.

• The Left Foot Living Review
• An indisposable lifestyle resource.

• TextureFnoob
• A graphics tool, er, programming language, um, mathematical graphing package... Freeware for Power Macintosh.

• Mosaic Rubik's Cube Art
• I didn't invent this art form, but I have now designed several patterns, of which some are shown on this page. No, I can't solve the Cube. I only need to be able to do one face to make these works.

• A Marriage Story
• I was invited to say something at a friend's wedding. This came out.

• Glk: A Proposed Standard I/O Interface for Text Adventures

• Blorb: A Proposed Standard Resource Format for Text Adventures

• Certificate Cards
• Nifty little cards that I have distributed in big piles. PostScript versions included.

• Custom Rubik's Cube Designs
• Not just plain colored squares. Some of these challenges are interesting even if (like me) you can't actually solve the original Cube.

• Crosswire
• A look at an old attempt to invent a card game with exactly two kinds of cards.

• Z'Ripple
• A silly visual toy for the PalmPilot. Dots ripple when you touch the screen.

• Z'Catalog
• A handy utility for the PalmPilot. List, sort, delete, or modify any database in the Pilot's memory.

• Two-Player Aquarius
• How to play Aquarius with just two players -- a couple of variations.

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