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.
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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...
ifdb.org
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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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
Inspired equally by Return of the Obra Dinn, IMMORTALITY, and Letterboxd.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
brunodias.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
Inspired equally by Return of the Obra Dinn, IMMORTALITY, and Letterboxd.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
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=...
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...
ifdb.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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=...
Reposted by David Welbourn
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=...
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...
ifdb.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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=...
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=...
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...
ifdb.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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=...
New walkthroughs for Tempus Fugit (2025), A Taste of Terror (2025), Renegade Brainwave (2010), Monk by the Sea (2020), BLACK'N'WHITE Rag (1996), Life of A Librarian (2013), Not in Venice (2012), and That Damn Remote (2009)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=... for links and details.
New walkthroughs for July 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...
ifdb.org
July 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New walkthroughs for Tempus Fugit (2025), A Taste of Terror (2025), Renegade Brainwave (2010), Monk by the Sea (2020), BLACK'N'WHITE Rag (1996), Life of A Librarian (2013), Not in Venice (2012), and That Damn Remote (2009)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=... for links and details.
Is the #ifMud down? I'm trying to login for #ClubFloyd but I'm just not connecting.
July 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Is the #ifMud down? I'm trying to login for #ClubFloyd but I'm just not connecting.
So, CF played Roguelike Goose. What do next? Continue Cave Adventure or A Remote Problem? But, walkthrus for Keeping Dido and Monk by the Sea await! Cooked huge skillet dish. Oh! Garry Francis pub'd A Taste of Terror! Must play! So many rooms! Relax? NO! EYE by Arthur DiBianca! Sleep later! *zoink*
June 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So, CF played Roguelike Goose. What do next? Continue Cave Adventure or A Remote Problem? But, walkthrus for Keeping Dido and Monk by the Sea await! Cooked huge skillet dish. Oh! Garry Francis pub'd A Taste of Terror! Must play! So many rooms! Relax? NO! EYE by Arthur DiBianca! Sleep later! *zoink*
New walkthroughs today for Cut the Sky (2025), Fat Bear (2025), Fixing Time (2025), Escape from the SS Borgarís (2003), Escape from the Troll's Cave (2024), Guilded Youth (2012), Retool Looter (2025), and Stealth Adventure (2024)! IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for June 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...
ifdb.org
June 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New walkthroughs today for Cut the Sky (2025), Fat Bear (2025), Fixing Time (2025), Escape from the SS Borgarís (2003), Escape from the Troll's Cave (2024), Guilded Youth (2012), Retool Looter (2025), and Stealth Adventure (2024)! IFDB List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs today for The Time Crystals of Cythii (2025), Eurydice (2012), Crash (2022), Iceweb (2016), ADRIFT (2022), The Crew (2021), Mammal (2012), and Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew (2025)! See IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for May 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...
ifdb.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New walkthroughs today for The Time Crystals of Cythii (2025), Eurydice (2012), Crash (2022), Iceweb (2016), ADRIFT (2022), The Crew (2021), Mammal (2012), and Witch Hedwig and the Magic Berries Brew (2025)! See IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
Hooray! New walkthroughs today for Andromeda Awakening (2011-2012), The Prairie House (2022), Deephome (1999), Locked Door series (2022), Baretegi (2016), Lime Ergot (2014), NEST (2023), and Yet another experiment (2020)! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for April 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...
ifdb.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Hooray! New walkthroughs today for Andromeda Awakening (2011-2012), The Prairie House (2022), Deephome (1999), Locked Door series (2022), Baretegi (2016), Lime Ergot (2014), NEST (2023), and Yet another experiment (2020)! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
Reposted by David Welbourn
Nice Myst analysis: a graph of the original game's nodes, extracted from the Hypercard source code.
glthr.com/myst-graph-1
glthr.com/myst-graph-1
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This is particularly evident in its first release (Macintosh, 1993), which was composed of interconnected ...
glthr.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Nice Myst analysis: a graph of the original game's nodes, extracted from the Hypercard source code.
glthr.com/myst-graph-1
glthr.com/myst-graph-1
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Inform 7 source code for my IFComp game "Bad Beer" is now freely available in the IFArchive. It is also linked from Bad Beer's IFDB game web page. April 1 is Source Code Amnesty Day for interactive fiction games. More info about my release in my intfiction forum post intfiction.org/t/source-cod...
Source Code Amnesty Day 2025
Bad Beer’s Inform 7 source code is in IFArchive and linked from the IFDB game page: The source code is presented in its original untidied form. Rather devoid of comments 😜 Using chapters to break u...
intfiction.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Inform 7 source code for my IFComp game "Bad Beer" is now freely available in the IFArchive. It is also linked from Bad Beer's IFDB game web page. April 1 is Source Code Amnesty Day for interactive fiction games. More info about my release in my intfiction forum post intfiction.org/t/source-cod...
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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of my #InteractiveFiction text adventure, Augmented Fourth, today. It's remained modestly popular amongst Zork fanatics and ear training professors and can still be played online today:
www.urizone.net/aug4.uri
www.urizone.net/aug4.uri
April 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of my #InteractiveFiction text adventure, Augmented Fourth, today. It's remained modestly popular amongst Zork fanatics and ear training professors and can still be played online today:
www.urizone.net/aug4.uri
www.urizone.net/aug4.uri
New walkthroughs today for A Train to Piccadilly (2024), Hinterlands: Delivered! (2023), Words of Power (2002), Inhumane (1985), Anolelona (2025), Pizza Delivery (2018), Sand-dancer (2010), and Tableaux (2025)! See the list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for March 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...
ifdb.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New walkthroughs today for A Train to Piccadilly (2024), Hinterlands: Delivered! (2023), Words of Power (2002), Inhumane (1985), Anolelona (2025), Pizza Delivery (2018), Sand-dancer (2010), and Tableaux (2025)! See the list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs today for Another Earth, Another Sky (2002); Late Night at the Mall (2024); Hangman's Gulch (2024); Mind the Gap (2020); The Babysitter (2024); A Dodecapedic box (2024); Mars, 2039 AD (2024); and No More (2024). Hooray! See list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for February 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...
ifdb.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New walkthroughs today for Another Earth, Another Sky (2002); Late Night at the Mall (2024); Hangman's Gulch (2024); Mind the Gap (2020); The Babysitter (2024); A Dodecapedic box (2024); Mars, 2039 AD (2024); and No More (2024). Hooray! See list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
Reposted by David Welbourn
Come listen to me, Emily Short and @annamegill.com talk about worldbuilding with narrative systems and story at GDC! schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
February 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Come listen to me, Emily Short and @annamegill.com talk about worldbuilding with narrative systems and story at GDC! schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-...
New walkthroughs for Snowquest (2009), The Sueño (2015), Thornfell Manor: 1984 (2024), The Basilisk and the Banana (2024), The eight-headed giant (2024), Ghost Hunt (2024), Museum of Paranormal Phenomena (2024), and Not Another Sad Meal (2024)! The IFDB list is at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for January 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...
ifdb.org
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New walkthroughs for Snowquest (2009), The Sueño (2015), Thornfell Manor: 1984 (2024), The Basilisk and the Banana (2024), The eight-headed giant (2024), Ghost Hunt (2024), Museum of Paranormal Phenomena (2024), and Not Another Sad Meal (2024)! The IFDB list is at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
Reposted by David Welbourn
no reason australyear.blogspot.com/2008/05/re-o...
January 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
no reason australyear.blogspot.com/2008/05/re-o...
Reposted by David Welbourn
Join us for SINGIN' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN as we celebrate thousands of works newly free to enjoy, remix, and reimagine! 🎶🎬
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January 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us for SINGIN' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN as we celebrate thousands of works newly free to enjoy, remix, and reimagine! 🎶🎬
📅 Jan 22
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ REGISTER ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979
@InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
📅 Jan 22
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
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Speaking of Infocom, check out @eblong.com's new Visible Zorker project, where you can play Zork in your browser, but also see what's happening in the source code underneath, at the same time!
The Visible Zorker
A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.
eblong.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Speaking of Infocom, check out @eblong.com's new Visible Zorker project, where you can play Zork in your browser, but also see what's happening in the source code underneath, at the same time!
Reposted by David Welbourn
🎄 Behind door 27 of the Confounding Calendar, an advent calendar of puzzling treats, you find... ✨
"Advent Window" by @eblong.com
zarf.itch.io/advent-...
"Advent Window" by @eblong.com
zarf.itch.io/advent-...
Advent Window by zarf
Interactive fiction. Play in your browser
zarf.itch.io
December 27, 2024 at 11:18 PM
🎄 Behind door 27 of the Confounding Calendar, an advent calendar of puzzling treats, you find... ✨
"Advent Window" by @eblong.com
zarf.itch.io/advent-...
"Advent Window" by @eblong.com
zarf.itch.io/advent-...
A visual summary: Year of Walkthroughs: 2024
plover.net/~davidw/sol/...
plover.net/~davidw/sol/...
Year of Walkthroughs: 2024
plover.net
December 28, 2024 at 4:07 AM
A visual summary: Year of Walkthroughs: 2024
plover.net/~davidw/sol/...
plover.net/~davidw/sol/...
Happy holidays! New walkthroughs today for So Far (1996), Castle Ralf (1987), Tristam Island (2020), Bright Brave Knight Knave (2023), Chinese Family Dinner Moment (2023), and the first five Painless Little Stupid Games (2011). IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...
New walkthroughs for December 2024 - 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...
ifdb.org
December 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Happy holidays! New walkthroughs today for So Far (1996), Castle Ralf (1987), Tristam Island (2020), Bright Brave Knight Knave (2023), Chinese Family Dinner Moment (2023), and the first five Painless Little Stupid Games (2011). IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...