For some time I had thought all of the source code of Amberstar, Ambermoon, and Albion were lost or inaccessible. Back then we simply didn't do rigorous backups after finishing games. The shipp...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/amberstar-ambermoon-source-material-released/
German retro-gamed podcast Stay Forever interviewed Karsten Köper, Erik Simon, and myself about Ambermoon, as well as its predecessor Amberstar, and Thalion Software in general. Karsten was th...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/ambermoon-podcast-interview-stay-forever/
I first met John Podlasek almost 30 years ago when we both worked at Blue Byte Software: he in the U.S. office, me in Germany. We lost touch a bit over the years, but last year he contacted me an...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/game-dev-advice-podcast-interview/
DOS Game Club interviewed both Erik Simon and myself about Albion. Both Erik and I and have individually spoken about Albion in the past, but this was actually the first time we were both inter...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/albion-podcast-interview-DOS-game-club/
Back around 1993 I was asked as part of an interview which video game character I wanted to be. I answered: > "I'd like to be a stone from Tetris, because it is such an accurate...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/which-video-game-character/
I've been playing Marvel Snap quite a bit since it came out, and I'm currently using a deck based on MODOK that I'm quite happy with. This is what that deck currently looks like: It's built t...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2023/my-marvel-snap-MODOK-deck/
If you're reading this, I finally finished converting my WordPress blog to a statically generated website, built using Nikola, and hosted on Netlify. I started this whole process in September 2...
I have been much more active on Twitter than here over the last few years, but I never intentionally decided to abandon my blog. So, in attempt to catch up, here is a list of some of the thing...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2021/07/quick-update-2016-2021.html
I've been thinking about generating interactive stories as choice-based IF for a while, using that format as a liberating constraint, a reasonable and minimal model for many other forms of intera...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2017/11/elision-in-generated-interactive-stories.html
For no particular reason, and without claiming to be an expert at all, I thought I'd list some anime series I like. In no particular order: Paranoia Agent . Coherent weirdness by the late maste...
https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2016/10/anime-series-recommendations.html