quote [ With access to the source code, a group of dedicated fans is now tinkering with the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL). Infocom was eventually bought out by Activision in 1986, but was quickly shut down a few years later. There are more modern collections of Infocom games available, keeping the spirit of Zork alive, but the source code, which could teach us how Infocom managed to create such a sophisticated game at the time, had been deemed lost. That is, until this week, when internet archivist Jason Scott uploaded a collection of all Infocom text adventures and interactive fiction games? source codes to GitHub, including the Zork games and Infocom?s video game adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ]

quote [ This game is about playing one small part in a much larger story. You only live an hour, but time and space in this game is infinite. ]

quote [ The evolution of saving in video games, from the password to the cloud, and nearly every obscure memory card format in-between. ]

quote [ Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game. ]

quote [ From the arcades to the living room, how the controller has evolved?and why one tech historian, Benj Edwards, started building his own. ]

quote [ We have also shipped various physical items before (binders for SHENZHEN I/O, zines for EXAPUNKS) and have a rich, if somewhat complex, relationship with our local post office. ]

quote [ Good luck out there, and mind the sharks. ]

quote [ An overly literal collision engine will make you fall as soon as your feet leave solid ground. But what if you give the player just a few extra frames, and if they push the jump button a few milliseconds too late, you still give them a valid jump? ]