Drew Cook: A Biting Cat

thebitingcat - Twitch omg I got a pc

I'm going back in for some more evil BG3

www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

thebitingcat - Twitch Baldur's Gate 3

I'll be streaming a bit of Baldur's Gate 3 for the next hour or so.

www.twitch.tv/thebitingcat

Can you believe it? Spring Thing 2026 is just six months away!

- A fun, unranked event with ribbons and prizes
- Two divisions, main festival and back garden

***No LLM-generated content permitted***

I hope to see everyone there! It's never too soon to start.

Please pass it on <3

Photo of a two-toned purple headset with cushioned headphones

Headset.

ECTOCOMP 2025 A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest, alyshkalia & Passerine. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and feel the night But now it's getting late...

Ectocomp submissions close in 17 hours. That means that if you start RIGHT NOW, you could make 4 La Petite Mort entries! Let's gooooo

itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

I wrote an Inform extension that draws a 3x3 map in the status line. Adjacent rooms are displayed as hyperlinks.

Requires Mathbrush's Bisquixe, which is worth downloading regardless.

kamin3ko.itch.io/mini-map

I plan to stream some BG3 with a new bladesinger Drow character. I'm going to be evil for the first time.

The server I'm using is mostly empty, but feel free to use the channels (for intended purposes)

8pm CST
discord.gg/gffNRyT6

I'm going to stream the heroes of might and magic demo for maybe an hour. the channel is "stream stuff." feel free to stop by.

discord.gg/gffNRyT6

2025 IFComp Post-Competition Survey Hello! Thanks for taking this survey. It's a bit longer this year as we seek detailed information about future approaches to the UK Online Safety Act and the use of generative artificial intelligence ...

have you completed the IF Comp post-competition survey?

what a mouthful that is!

please complete the IF Comp post-competition survey

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that's great! starting is hard

ECTOCOMP 2025 A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest, alyshkalia & Passerine. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and f...

You still have a week to get that Ectocomp game submitted!

itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

(feel free to pass it on)

Definitely! I liked Nemesis as a game, I just don't think it worked very well as a Zork thing. I remember enjoying the visuals especially.

I do! I never thought that worked very well. That character also kills Bivotar from the children's books. From. the. children's. books.

This is a complete retcon of Zork Zero that assumes that game's events never happened. Or the graphical games. Or even Beyond Zork.

I, Thief development diary: a pre/se-quel AUTHORS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS I’d like to do something closer to the Infocom games. A fan fiction, maybe. A sequel to Zork Zero! “If you would prefer a game with minimalist sensibilities… You m...

I'll be occasionally posting updates about my upcoming game, I Thief, which attempts to illuminate the venn overlap between gonzo meta IF and Zork. Please look forward to it!

intfiction.org/t/i-thief-de...

my condensed map of Zork II's geography for the WIP. I've set everything on a grid to accomodate the automap extension with minimal fuss

IFComp results are up, and so is the IFComp feedback survey.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/10/ifco...

To those who are here for IFComp I know lots of authors and reviewers are only really around this forum during IFComp season. For those of you who aren’t aware, there are a variety of IF-related events going on year-round that you ca...

Did you know? People make and play IF games all year long!

intfiction.org/t/to-those-w...

Been playing the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era a lot. It's great, but gee whiz it's a lot more complex than HOMM 3. I wonder how people will feel about it. I love it personally, but there is definitely a learning curve.

Will support early access when it hits unless something goes wrong

Congratulations to the winners! A very strong batch of games this year. I didn't get to play and rate nearly as many as I wanted to; same as it ever was.

(*cough* please fill out the survey golmac.org/your-opinion...)

Your Opinion Matters to Us - Gold Machine I know we're all tired of talking about this, but. But!

Have you filled out the IF Comp survey yet? Please consider completing it.
golmac.org/your-opinion...

more repeats other ways to repeat through things.

more on repeating through stuff
topexpert.blog/2025/10/16/m...

Over the past week or so, I fixed up a couple of fairly serious bugs in Repeat the Ending that had eluded capture until now, including a profoundly stinky stack error.

Neat!

I don't like Moonmist; it will be a hard go writing about it. I'll need to reread the transcripts, for one thing.

Art Aster Fialla art portfolio

My site, asterfialla.com, is where I'll be posting art, games, and blogposts from now on. It has comments and an rss feed. Check it out.

I've been told, repeatedly that I need to fill out the IF Comp post-comp survey to express my feelings regarding generative AI

But why, really, do I need to (checks notes) tell an interactive fiction technology foundation how to feel about interactive fiction technology?

#ifcomp

ECTOCOMP 2025 A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest & alyshkalia. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and feel the nig...

Are you considering an Ectocomp entry? It's one of the best IF events of the year! Info and rules here:

itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

I'll start publishing development diaries for my next parser game soon.

But should anyone believe authors 🤔

ACMI Guide: Zork - Softcover Step into the Great Underground Empire and uncover how Zork and Infocom transformed lines of text into entire worlds. Blending historical research, literary analysis, and first-hand testimony, this bo...

I'm in this!
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Emily Short's Bee

Callie returns to the podcast to discuss Emily Short's Bee. It should be on your platform of choice! Let me know if you can't find it.
open.spotify.com/episode/7Bnb...

The Wolf that Cried Boy: The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode - Gold Machine "The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode" turns 15 years this month. A look back at the game and its reception.

I've been threatening to write this essay for five years! A treatment of VIctor Gijsbers's "The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode".

Long form, crunchy. Perils of author explication, contaminated text, some digital humanites excavation.

golmac.org/the-wolf-tha...