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Factsheet

Developer:
Zarfhome Software
Based in Boston, Massachusetts

Founding date:
January 1, 2011

Website:
zarfhome.com

Press / Business Contact:
zarf@zarfhome.com

Social:
twitter.com/zarfeblong

Releases:
Hadean Lands
Meanwhile
Pocket Storm

Description

Interactive fiction and other narrative experiments.

History

Pre-history

I've been writing interactive fiction since I was a teenager. I started out doing parodies of Infocom games (because it was the mid-1980s, and I was a teenager). After college I got back into the IF scene, which had changed from a commercial genre to the domain of amateurs and dedicated fans. I took first prize in the first IFComp in 1995; I wrote some of the seminal works of the modern IF movement, such as *Spider and Web* and *Shade*.

Striking out on my own

After years of work on free games and open-source IF tools, I grabbed hold of a strange new service called Kickstarter. I launched my Kickstarter project in 2010, promising a new full-scale game called *Hadean Lands*. I also wanted to try other narrative experiments, like *Meanwhile* -- and to keep hacking with the open-source community. The Kickstarter was a success, and *Hadean Lands* was finished in late 2014. The hacking continues.

Projects


Videos

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Images

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Awards & Recognition


    Interviews and articles
    Interviews with and articles about Andrew Plotkin, at eblong.com.


    Team & Repeating Collaborators

    Andrew Plotkin
    Founder and designer


    presskit() by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) - also thanks to these fine folks