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Andrew Plotkin
Plotkin in 2010
Born (1970-05-15) May 15, 1970 (age 54)
Syracuse, New York
NationalityAmerican
Other namesZarf
Occupation(s)interactive fiction writer, programmer
Known forSystem's Twilight (1994), Spider and Web (1998)
Websitewww.eblong.com/zarf

Andrew Plotkin (born May 15, 1970), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction (IF) community. Having both written a number of award-winning games and developed a range of new file formats, interpreters, and other utilities for the design, production, and running of IF games, Plotkin is widely recognised for both his creative and his technical contributions to the homebrew IF scene.

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Andrew Plotkin (born May 15, 1970), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction (IF) community. Having both written a number...

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XYZZY Awards

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Far by Andrew Plotkin 1997: I-0 by Adam Cadre 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin 1999: Varicella by Adam Cadre 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson...

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Spider and Web

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Spider and Web is a piece of interactive fiction written by Andrew Plotkin. Spider and Web begins innocuously enough: the player's character, an apparent...

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Interactive Fiction Database

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Monkey, by Emily Short Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian 80 Days, by inkle and Meg...

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Interactive fiction

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"Glulxe", by Andrew Plotkin, and "Git", by Iain Merrick. Other interpreters include Zoom for Mac OS X, or for Unix or Linux, maintained by Andrew Hunter, and...

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The Kingkiller Chronicle

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Chronicle for a TV series. The production team included Arnon Milchan, Andrew Plotkin, Brad Weston, and Robert Lawrence. Two years later in October, the rights...

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Glulx

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intended for writing and playing interactive fiction. It was designed by Andrew Plotkin to relieve some of the restrictions in the venerable Z-machine format...

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Blorb

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is to bind these together into one file. The format was devised by Andrew Plotkin and is used in both the Z-machine and Glulx virtual machines, as well...

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Ultimate Werewolf

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Games. It is based on the social deduction game, Werewolf, which is Andrew Plotkin's reinvention of Dimitry Davidoff's 1987 game, Mafia. The Werewolf game...

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Recursion

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"Did you mean: recursion." An alternative form is the following, from Andrew Plotkin: "If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise...

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The Dreamhold

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The Dreamhold is an interactive fiction game by Andrew Plotkin, released in 2004. Its primary purpose is to be a tutorial to interactive fiction; because...

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A Change in the Weather

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Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game. Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game is written in version five of the Inform programming language...

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Inform

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with no alterations. Originally Inform targeted the Z-machine only. Andrew Plotkin created an unofficial version of Inform 6 that was also capable of generating...

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Shade

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an episode of The Flash Shade (interactive fiction), a 2000 game by Andrew Plotkin Shade: Wrath of Angels, a 2004 Computer and Xbox game developed by Black...

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Melvin Capital

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It was founded in 2014 by Gabriel Plotkin, who named the firm after his late grandfather. On May 18, 2022, Plotkin announced that the fund would close...

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Gregory Plotkin

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Gregory Plotkin is an American film editor and director, known for his work in horror films, including Get Out (2017), Happy Death Day (2017), Game Night...

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The Space Under the Window

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The Space Under the Window is a 1997 interactive fiction game by Andrew Plotkin. The game is part of a collaborative art piece, also entitled "The Space...

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where he makes sausages. Ann slept with him after breaking up with Danny. Andrew Keegan as Zach, a college student who lives in the same dorm as Rose at...

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Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation

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Board of Directors are Jason McIntosh (president), Judith Pintar and Andrew Plotkin. Among the members of the advisory board are Jon Ingold, Max Gladstone...

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Jewels of the Oracle

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that has been so elaborately created." Interactive fiction personality Andrew Plotkin wrote that the game was "one-third recycled standard puzzles, one-third...

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