David Welbourn

David Welbourn

@dswxyz.bsky.social

Interactive fiction author, player, walkthrough writer, wiki editor, and enthusiast. Also known to like other things, such as tea. Cis ⚣♑︎. He/him.

91 Followers 102 Following 70 Posts Joined Feb 2024
1 day ago

Uh, that's not a complete list, by the way. That's why I haven't made it official and public yet.

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1 day ago
Losing endings in Time: All Things Come to an End

I also got enamored of all the crazy ways one can lose the game. I made a secret list of them: plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

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1 day ago

I had already played it quite some time ago and had the illusions of fond memories of it. I also felt it was the sort of game that both needed a verbose walkthough and one that I had a decent chance at succeeding at. And I discovered I needed help with it as well, because it is VERY difficult.

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1 week ago

Thirst world problems.

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1 week ago

I suppose if a Neutral Barbarian had a cheevos card, finding Sierra barefoot in the snow could be on it. Glad he's getting so much enjoyment from it?

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1 week ago
New walkthroughs for February 2026 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

Today I published new walkthroughs for Time: All Things Come to an End (1996), The Party Line (2020), Zodiac (2025), The Seeds of Evil (2026), Every Day I Get Emails (2025), I Have No Verbs (2025), The Loneliest House (2023), and Reference and Representation (2016)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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1 month ago

I do run my finger inside the shell to get the last bit of egg, but I only know to do that because I read a book by Sam Levenson where he described his mother doing that in a chapter about food and never quite having enough of it, so nothing could be wasted.

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1 month ago
New walkthroughs for January 2026 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

Today I published new walkthroughs for Unknown Dimension; All That Shimmers; Kill Wizard; Quirky Test; Uptown 1; Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider; greenskeep; and The Organ Grinder's Monkey, all from 2025! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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1 month ago

T-Boner-Rex.

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1 month ago
The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon) Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon. The plan: deconstruct every Infocom game, one per month, and make the source code explorable.

Here we go...

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

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2 months ago
Infinite Craft Emojis

A couple days ago, I found the fire emoji in Infinite Craft, quite by accident, and I've spent time I don't have finding more emojis via that first one. It feels like I've unlocked a secret section of the game. I'm documenting my finds at plover.net/~davidw/ic/I...

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2 months ago
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Snowémon Ho Ho Ho! You're an adventurer on holiday, and you decided to take it easy by traveling to a remote northern town and search for snowémon, which are creatures made of snow and ice. Find as many different kinds ...

By the way, did I mention I wrote a new Christmas-themed Pokemon-inspired game? ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

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2 months ago
Year of Walkthroughs: 2025

Here's my year's-end round-up of all the walkthroughs I published in 2025, represented by their Open Graph arwork: plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

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2 months ago
New walkthroughs for December 2025 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

New walkthroughs for The Wise-Woman's Dog (2025); The Evil Sorcerer (2001); The Wrath of Anubis (2025); Caribbean Treasure (2025); Beat Me Up Scotty (2023); Cheese, Go Home! (2008); Fired (2025); Go-Strange-Ghost Range (2025); Limen (2021); and Rain Check-in (2025)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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3 months ago

Night's Master is excellent and the first sequel Death's Master is almost as good. But I have trouble remembering what Delusion's Master is about, and I can't remember anything at all about the Delirium's Mistress.

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3 months ago

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'll try re-writing that part to use flexbox, now that I know that.

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3 months ago

@salty-horse.bsky.social Okay, it should be fixed now. Thanks again.

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3 months ago
New walkthroughs for November 2025 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

New walkthroughs for Veritas (1995), Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? (2025), Guma Adventure III (2024), Rise of the Necropolis (2018), AardVarK Versus the Hype (2021), Monkeys and Car Keys (2025), Return to the Castle (2020), and The Semantagician's Assistant (2025)! IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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3 months ago

Ack! I'll get onto that as soon as I can! Thanks for the correction!

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4 months ago
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Kinophobia by Bruno Dias Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

Ectocomp '25 games are all live no – including KINOPHOBIA, my parser game/database thriller hybrid. Research an alternate history of cinema to figure out the fates of lost souls.

Inspired equally by Return of the Obra Dinn, IMMORTALITY, and Letterboxd.

brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

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4 months ago

If only all streakers looked so good.

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4 months ago
New walkthroughs for October 2025 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

I published new walkthroughs today for The Wizard Sniffer (2017), Frankenfingers (2025), Phobos (2025), Willy's Manor (2025), Dreadwine (2006), The Gate (2004), In The End (1996), and The Job (2021)! See IFDB for details! ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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4 months ago

Brie senting and serving.

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5 months ago

Lucky. The best abandoned food I've ever found (at different times) in real life was a chocolate bar and a bag of pretzels. The chocolate bar was on top of a snowbank beside a mailbox.

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5 months ago
checkered flag

The Ludum Dare 58 Compo event has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your games now! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

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5 months ago
New walkthroughs for September 2025 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

I've published new walkthroughs for House of Dream of Moon (2007), Tin Star (2025), Desperados (2025), Clickbait (2025), The Abyss (2015), Keeping Dido (2013), Old fogey (2015), and Shadow Soldiers (2007)! IFDB Link at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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6 months ago
New walkthroughs for August 2025 - Recommended List IFDB is a game catalog and recommendation engine for Interactive Fiction, also known as Text Adventures. IFDB is a collaborative, wiki-style community project. Members can contribute game listings, r...

New walkthroughs for EYE (2025), Wild West (2025), Cave Adventure (2007), Quest of the Mysteries (2025), Roguelike Goose (2020), Adventura (2017), Mouse Quest (2016), A Remote Problem (2025), and Swap Wand User (2025)! See the IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

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6 months ago

I do like it, thank you, but what part of that image is the pool? Is the pool, us, the viewers?

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6 months ago

Drano pure

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7 months ago

That's a suit? Are you sure that's not a hot dog?

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