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(Its been open for a few weeks, but you know, holidays.) The deadline is February 7th./p>p>This year we also have a track for a hrefhttps://narrascope.org/papers>academic papers/a>. Were trying to do more with Drexel, our host university this year, so this is a bit of crossover. The a hrefhttps://narrascope.org/papers>paper submission form/a> isnt open yet, so keep an eye on that if youre of the academic persuasion./p>p>Oh, theres also a brand-new NarraScope account on a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/narrascope.org>Bluesky/a>. So brand-new that we havent said anything yet, but that will change soon... And all the other a hrefhttps://narrascope.org/contact/>contact lines/a> are still open, of course./p>p>See you in June in Philadelphia, I very much hope./p>            /div>      hr>/div>div idpost-2 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/12/and-thats-a-year>And that's a year/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Tuesday, December 31, 2024        /h4>                  h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/zarf>zarf/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>Welcome to my last blog post of 2024. Unless something em>really/em> exciting happens this afternoon. I suspect not; Im not doing anything except making cookies./p>p>This happens to be my a href/history>fiftieth blog post/a> of 2024, which beats my previous record of 48 in 2008. Theres nothing particularly interesting about this record. In fact I started this post to just say Ha! Fifty blog posts in 2024! Merry new year! But I guess its turned into a 2024-in-review sort of thing./p>p>Ill keep it snappy:/p>ul>li>Four months of employment, and no, that wasnt a contract gig. It was a a hrefhttps://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-distributed-studio-possibility-space-abruptly-shut-down-by-prytania-media>flameout/a>. The smoking remains of that company are now being picked over by a lawsuit, I hear. (No, Im not involved.)/li>li>Attended four conferences (GDC, a hrefhttps://scintillation.ca/>Scintillation/a>, a hrefhttps://2024.narrascope.org/>NarraScope/a>, a hrefhttps://xoxofest.com/>XOXO/a>). NarraScope was a great success; were on for a hrefhttps://narrascope.org/>Philadelphia in 2025/a>./li>li>Stepped down as an IFTF a href/2024/02/departing-iftf-board>board member/a>; handed over NarraScope to new chairs; began the process of stepping down as IFTF a href/2024/10/iftf-seeking-new-officers>treasurer/a>./li>li>Finished several code projects, including a a href/2024/05/quick-photo-tagging-app>photo catalog/a>, a a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/blorb/blorbtool/run.html>Blorb editor/a>, autotranscripting for a hrefhttps://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases>Lectrote/a>. Plus I a href/2024/06/neutering-spellcheck-on-macos>turned off MacOS spellcheck/a> for good./li>li>a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/gamerev/index.html>16 game review posts/a> covering 46 games./li>li>Shipped three games: em>a hrefhttps://zarfhome.com/thebeyond/>The Beyond/a>/em> (Steam), em>a hrefhttps://zarfhome.com/leviathan/>Leviathan/a>/em> (iOS), and em>a hrefhttps://zarf.itch.io/advent-window>Advent Window/a>/em> (a jam game but it counts!)/li>li>Bought 80 books (only 33 were physical volumes). Looks like T. Kingfisher is my top author of the year./li>li>Spent two weeks in a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/tag_italy.html>Italy/a> with my family. (Photo catalog link!)/li>li>Started using a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/eblong.com>Bluesky/a>./li>li>Still have not gotten COVID. That I can tell./li>/ul>p>And other stuff I didnt blog about, of course. Some good some bad. The usual. A life, if you can keep it./p>p>And 2025? Look, we know the shitshow is laid in. Im not looking forward to the details. Just gotta manage however we manage./p>p>Onward to the cookies for New Years. Melomakarona with spiced honey. Not a Jewish recipe or the Jewish calendar, but have something sweet for the new year anyhow./p>            /div>      hr>/div>div idpost-3 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/12/advent-window-very-small-if>Advent Window: a very small IF puzzle game/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Friday, December 27, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/12/advent-window-very-small-if#comments>Comments: 8/a>                (latest 4 days later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/zarf>zarf/a>, a href/tag/if>if/a>, a href/tag/interactive_fiction>interactive fiction/a>, a href/tag/inform_7>inform 7/a>, a href/tag/advent_window>advent window/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>My game em>a hrefhttps://zarf.itch.io/advent-window>Advent Window/a>/em> is todays entry in the a hrefhttps://confoundingcalendar.itch.io>Counfounding Calendar/a> Advent calendar!/p>p>Yes, its a followup to em>a hrefhttps://zarf.itch.io/advent-door>Advent Door/a>/em> and em>a hrefhttps://zarf.itch.io/advent-mirror>Advent Mirror/a>/em>. The games form a tiny trilogy. But you dont have to play the other two to solve this one./p>p>Like its predecessors, em>a hrefhttps://zarf.itch.io/advent-window>Advent Window/a>/em> is a snack-sized IF puzzle written in Inform 7./p>p>I really enjoyed the a hrefhttps://confoundingcalendar.itch.io>Counfounding Calendar/a> this year, by the way. I solved quite a few of the puzzles (not all, ha ha no). Some standouts: a hrefhttps://jackkutilek.itch.io/sunset-swim>Sunset Swim/a> (Jack Kutilek); a hrefhttps://mikanhako.itch.io/x-passage>X Passage/a> (MikanHako); a hrefhttps://gwenckatz.itch.io/pet>Bring Your Pet To School Day/a> (G.C. Katz); a hrefhttps://sevansevan.itch.io/purrradox>Purrradox/a> (SevanSevan); a hrefhttps://notaninart.itch.io/stick-stack>Stick Stack/a> (Notan)./p>            /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/advent-window-very-small-if#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-4 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/12/winter-mystery-games>Winter mystery games/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Tuesday, December 10, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/12/winter-mystery-games#comments>Comments: 3/a>                (latest 1 day later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/reviews>reviews/a>, a href/tag/phoenix_springs>phoenix springs/a>, a href/tag/rise_of_the_golden_idol>rise of the golden idol/a>, a href/tag/the_gap>the gap/a>, a href/tag/49_keys>49 keys/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>Yes, its winter. We got a dusting of snow, which isnt definitive (ask me about the Halloween snowstorm of 2011). em>But/em> Ive decided that December 8th was Nighthawks Solstice:/p>div classPreWrap>blockquote>p>Today we observe Nighthawk’s Solstice: the shortest day of the year for those of us who stay up late./p>p>(Because its the earliest sunset, and do I ever see sunrise? Heck no!)/p>p>Celebrate by drinking a mug of coffee (or cocoa or whatever) under weird fluorescent lighting while wearing a fedora. Or a red dress. Or a red fedora. (Linux support optional.)/p>p>--a hrefhttps://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/113618377089773584>@zarfeblong/a>, Dec 8th/p>/blockquote>/div>p>Therefore, winter has started./p>p>In recent years Ive saved up my winter reviews for the January IGF dump. And indeed I played quite a few games for IGF first-round judging. (Including em>a href/2024/12/the-thaumaturge>The Thaumaturge/a>/em>.)/p>p>However, Im not on the narrative jury this year. (Dont worry, youll be quite happy with my replacement...) So Im okay with dropping my opinions for the games that are already released./p>p>In fact I only played one of todays games during the IGF judging phase./p>ul>li>Phoenix Springs/li>li>Rise of the Golden Idol/li>li>The Gap/li>li>49 Keys/li>/ul>            /div>      div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/winter-mystery-games#more>Read the rest.../a>/h3>    /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/winter-mystery-games#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-5 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/12/the-thaumaturge>The Thaumaturge: design ruminations/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Saturday, December 7, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/12/the-thaumaturge#comments>Comments: 1/a>                (latest straightaway)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/the_thaumaturge>the thaumaturge/a>, a href/tag/reviews>reviews/a>, a href/tag/ruminations>ruminations/a>, a href/tag/poland>poland/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>em>a hrefhttps://foolstheory.com/games/thethaumaturge/>The Thaumaturge/a>/em> is an adventure-RPG set in a slightly alternate 1905 Poland. The alteration is thaumaturges: people with a familiar spirit (a Salutor) and an interesting mix of psychic powers./p>p>(Disclosure: while em>The Thaumaturge/em> is high-end for an indie production, it showed up in the IGF lists and I got a free review copy to play.)/p>p>The game starts in a remote farming village. Oho, you might think, this is a Witcher riff -- a lone monster-slayer stomping around the Polish countryside. Nope! Your talents are far better suited to sniffing around a crime scene (which the village obligingly provides). You can track someones psychic imprint on physical objects, glean their motivations, and -- in extremis -- give their thoughts a nudge. Okay, extremis happens pretty often./p>p>Farm life isnt your milieu anyhow. The prologue ends with a telegram at the train station. Your father is dead back home, and home you gotta go. (All great fantasy has trains!) Welcome to fin-de-siecle Warsaw, a stew of Polish aristocrats, Tsarist soldiers, gang leaders, rabbis, revolutionaries, journalists, whores, pączki vendors, and on and on. And other thaumaturges, to be sure. (Your father was one.) Not to mention your travel companion, Grigori Rasputin his own fire-eyed self./p>            /div>      div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/the-thaumaturge#more>Read the rest.../a>/h3>    /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/the-thaumaturge#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-6 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/12/me-in-the-media>Me in the media/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Friday, December 6, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/12/me-in-the-media#comments>Comments: 10/a>                (latest 1 day later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/zarf>zarf/a>, a href/tag/if>if/a>, a href/tag/interactive_fiction>interactive fiction/a>, a href/tag/topic_lords>topic lords/a>, a href/tag/digital_antiquarian>digital antiquarian/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>I guess its not the media any more, its just a hrefhttps://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ags1_105_063016_0107_a_1200x1800-e1495731326584.jpg>media/a>. Anyhow!/p>p>I recently guested on a hrefhttps://topiclords.com/voronoi-cookies>Topic Lords/a>, Jim Stormdancers podcast about topics. Along with Ben Wilson, I am featured in episode 266: a hrefhttps://topiclords.com/voronoi-cookies>Voronoi Cookies/a>. (My title drop, may I say.) A very random conversation, as is the podcasts brief./p>blockquote>p>Baking; leaving crosswords on the street; a year isnt 52.0 weeks; Leila Chatti; fidgeting in Zoom; Things of Science./p>/blockquote>hr />p>Less random: a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/2024/12/a-conversation-with-andrew-plotkin/>A Conversation with Andrew Plotkin/a> on a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/>The Digital Antiquarian/a>!/p>p>Jimmy Maher has been running through the early history of videogames in intensely-researched detail for, oh, lets not say how many years. Of course many of his a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/2011/05/will-crowthers-adventure-part-1/>early posts/a> were about interactive fiction, but now hes up to the mid-1990s so Infocom is gone and graphical adventures are a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/2024/11/grim-fandango/>trailing off/a>./p>p>But guess what happened in the mid-1990s? a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/2024/11/retro-no-more-interactive-fiction-of-the-early-comp-era/>IFComp/a>! And then my years as a hot young IF auteur. Thats what the a hrefhttps://www.filfre.net/2024/12/a-conversation-with-andrew-plotkin/>article/a> is about. Runs from my early encounter with Adventure to the present (a hrefhttps://narrascope.org/>NarraScope/a>, etc)./p>p>And yes, this is the interview where I admit that I skipped em>Plundered Hearts/em> on launch because it looked girly. (I played it when the LTOI collection came out.)/p>p>Enjoy./p>            /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/12/me-in-the-media#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-7 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/11/remembering-kory-heath>Remembering Kory Heath/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Wednesday, November 20, 2024      (updated 3 hours later)    /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/11/remembering-kory-heath#comments>Comments: 8/a>                (latest 4 days later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/kory_heath>kory heath/a>, a href/tag/zendo>zendo/a>, a href/tag/werewolf>werewolf/a>, a href/tag/blockhouse>blockhouse/a>, a href/tag/iphone>iphone/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>We learned yesterday that we lost game designer Kory Heath./p>div classPreWrap>blockquote>p>Sad news—my dear friend and collaborator, Kory Heath, after enduring years of chronic pain and depression, ended his life. He was a genius, also funny, kind, patient. Im so grateful we could spend so many years, laughs, and tears together, and that he knew he was deeply loved by all of his friends.--a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/cooperjohn.bsky.social/post/3lbdb724qjk2f>@cooperjohn.bsky.social/a>, Nov 19/p>/blockquote>/div>            /div>      div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/remembering-kory-heath#more>Read the rest.../a>/h3>    /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/remembering-kory-heath#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-8 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/11/four-weeks-in-the-blue-sky>Four weeks in the blue sky/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Tuesday, November 19, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/11/four-weeks-in-the-blue-sky#comments>Comments: 12/a>                (latest December 14)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/social_media>social media/a>, a href/tag/bluesky>bluesky/a>, a href/tag/mastodon>mastodon/a>, a href/tag/twitter>twitter/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>I set up a a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/eblong.com>Bluesky account/a> at the beginning of September, just to see what the process was like. (Easy, turns out.) But I didnt give it a push until around October 23rd. Thats when I a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/eblong.com/post/3l77acdyf4u2g>pinned an intro/a> and started following people./p>p>My motivations, I admit, were mercenary. I was two weeks out from launching em>a hrefhttps://zarfhome.com/leviathan/>Leviathan/a>/em> and em>a hrefhttps://zarfhome.com/thebeyond/>The Beyond/a>/em>, and I figured I needed swing all the social media oomph I could reach./p>p>Well, the launch a href/2024/11/the-beyond-and-leviathan-available>happened/a>. (Went okay for small narrative games. Not going to pay the mortgage.) Im still on Bluesky. Its been a sociologically interesting few weeks. I figured Id write down my impressions./p>            /div>      div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/four-weeks-in-the-blue-sky#more>Read the rest.../a>/h3>    /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/four-weeks-in-the-blue-sky#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-9 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/11/my-top-blog-posts>My top blog posts/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Thursday, November 14, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/11/my-top-blog-posts#comments>Comments: 7/a>                (latest 2 days later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/zarf>zarf/a>, a href/tag/blog>blog/a>, a href/tag/stats>stats/a>, a href/tag/navel-gazing>navel-gazing/a>, a href/tag/static_site_generators>static site generators/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>Over on Bluesky, someone asked whether everybodys blog traffic has declined over the past few weeks. (Original message requires Bsky login so I wont link directly.)/p>p>This got me looking at my blog stats, which I normally never, ever do./p>p>Short answer: I dont think so? But my blog is tiny and the data is noisy, so how would I even tell. Some of my posts get popular -- though never what youd call viral. Most dont./p>p>But why not peek at the data? I have logs going back to June 2023, when I a href/2023/06/welcome-to-the-new-blog>moved off of Blogger.com/a>. Yes, its navel-gazing. But now that Im shifting some weight onto a hrefhttps://bsky.app/profile/eblong.com>Bluesky/a>, I might have some followers who havent seen my older posts./p>            /div>      div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/my-top-blog-posts#more>Read the rest.../a>/h3>    /div>        div classUtilHead>      h3 classSelector>a href2024/11/my-top-blog-posts#comments>Read the comments.../a>/h3>    /div>    hr>/div>div idpost-10 rolearticle>  div classEntryHead>    h2>a href2024/11/zarf-photographs>Zarf photographs/a>/h2>    h4 classDate>Monday, November 11, 2024        /h4>            h4 classComments>a href2024/11/zarf-photographs#comments>Comments: 4/a>                (latest 1 day later)          /h4>              h4 classTags>Tagged:            a href/tag/photos>photos/a>, a href/tag/phogg>phogg/a>, a href/tag/tagging>tagging/a>, a href/tag/programming>programming/a>, a href/tag/tinyapp>tinyapp/a>    /h4>      /div>    div classEntryBody>                p>Several months ago I write about making a a href/2024/05/quick-photo-tagging-app>new little photo tagging app/a>. Its called a hrefhttps://github.com/erkyrath/phogg>phogg/a> (for, I guess, photo a hrefhttps://github.com/erkyrath/bloggor>bloggor/a>) and Ive been diligently using it ever since. I now have about 2150 photos stacked up on my home media server./p>p>Thats great, but does the world care? My home media server is firewalled. You cant see it./p>p>But occasionally I want to show off my photo collection to somebody. I mean, not the em>whole/em> collection -- theres a lot of chaff and random food photos and photos of the people in my life, and I dont share that stuff without permission. But a curated subset./p>p>Surely this is easy, though? I already have a widget in there to generate as the catalog as a static web page. I just need to tag some photos as public, and then write a script to upload the tagged set to my public web site./p>p>I just need to write a script is a dangerous phrase. I got a rough draft up quite quickly, and then realized two things:/p>ul>li>p>Public photos need em>titles/em> as well as tags. So I had to add a title-editing field to the phogg UI. (I could have gone full Tumblr, with hyper-descriptive tags, but I decided not to. I curate my tag set too.)/p>/li>li>p>A photo site needs an RSS feed. Obviously./p>/li>/ul>p>So that was a bit more work, but I did it, and look! a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/>Photos/a>! a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/feed.xml>Feed/a>!/p>div classImageWrap Center>p>a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/>img altA screenshot of the photo collection page. Its titled "Zarf Photographs" with a note "Images copyright by Andrew Plotkin. All rights reserved." Tags are listed in column on the left. src/pic/2024/11/photo-screenshot-s.png />/a>Zarfs a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/>photo gallery/a>, now browsable by tag. (a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/feed.xml>RSS feed here/a>.)/p>/div>p>Enjoy! A couple of warnings though:/p>p>I expect to update this page in batches. I take photos. Every few days, I sync them off my phone to my home media server and tag them. Every few weeks, Ill curate the recent acquisitions, tag some public, and push them to the web site./p>p>Also, nothing about this system tracks when a photo was em>uploaded/em>. The metadata only shows when the photo was em>taken/em>. The good news is that when a new batch of photos appears, theyll have correct dates. The bad news is that if I add a batch of em>old/em> photos, they wont show up in the a hrefhttps://eblong.com/zarf/photo/feed.xml>RSS feed/a> -- the feed only lists the most recent 48 photos./p>p>Also, while Ive titled every image, Im afraid I havent provided alt text. I apologize for this. Alt text is a different job and its rather a lot more work. Maybe later./p>hr />p>And now, a few favorites from the collection. 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