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	Andrew Plotkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew Plotkin, also known as Zarf, is an important figure in the modern interactive fiction community.
		He was one of the earliest writers to use Graham Nelson's Inform development system, and one of the first since Infocom's heyday to explore the boundaries of interactive fiction as an artistic medium.
		Plotkin appears as a character in Being Andrew Plotkin, an interactive fiction game by J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Plotkin (272 words)

	Change in the Weather review
		Plotkin uses sound as well as visual details to build the tension: a bush gives way with a "small snap," the tree falls with a "splintering crash" after the "Crack!" of thunder--and the dizzy rush of detail among all the concurrent events produces a whirling, desperate confusion.
		Though we get little of the protagonist's thoughts, it seems plausible to support that he or she is somewhat less than calm, and the author does his utmost to transfer the growing sense of panic to the player.
		For the most part, Plotkin is content to show the details rather than telling the player how to feel, and the few exceptions--digging a trench, you "claw desperately" at the earth--are well placed.
	members.cox.net /dns361/weather.html (993 words)

	Tea Leaves: The Dreamhold
		Andrew's response was disappointment that I had made up a transcript, because he felt that the specific examples I gave weren't really valid.
		Plotkin strikes the right balance here: the anonymous narrator will often point out puzzles as you wander through the game world, but it doesn't spoil them by giving you clues you haven't asked for.
		Andrew Plotkin has a large body of work, and some of it is not to my taste.
	www.tgr.com /weblog/archives/000382.html (2443 words)

	IF-Theory: Territory
		This example appears in "Being Andrew Plotkin" (Wheeler, 2000), and is an agglomeration of shorter descriptions written by Andrew Plotkin himself, taken from various pages of Plotkin's personal website (which uses cave exploration as an elaborate metaphor for site navigation).
		In the earlier example from "Being Andrew Plotkin," the player is told what it sounds like to be standing there, which adds a little bit of atmosphere, but it is not deployed with enough aim to have much effect.
		In "Being Andrew Plotkin," which featured multiple player characters, a particular room description repeatedly changed to reflect the point of view of each PC the player inhabited during the course of the game.
	raddial.com /if/theory/territory.html (5055 words)

	Andrew Plotkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shade is an interactive fiction story written by Andrew Plotkin.
		Its self-reflexivity can be seen in the way that the interactive fiction genre requires the participation of the reader in order to read the story, in order for the story to unfold into existence.
		In this way, the story enforces its strength as a text and keeps the reader aware that he or she is participating in the act of reading a work of fiction that has been created by another mind.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~sarakholmes/courses/engl146en/AP.htm (82 words)

	Andrew Plotkin - IFWiki
		Andrew Plotkin is one of the most renowned authors in the IF community.
		Andrew's nickname on the ifMUD (and elsewhere) is Zarf.
		PC Gamer UK Interview: Andrew Plotkin - by Richard Cobbett for PC Gamer UK, issue 118, January 2003.
	www.ifwiki.org /index.php/Andrew_Plotkin (335 words)

	XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1999: The maze, in Hunter, in Darkness by Andrew Plotkin
		The recursive room, in Being Andrew Plotkin by J.
		The poltergeist, in Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XYZZY_Award_for_Best_Individual_Puzzle (549 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Space under The Window, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Andrew Plotkin is probably the best game designer you've never heard of, and in the opinion of this webpage second only to Marc Blank as the greatest computer game designer on earth.
		In virtually all cases, the end story that results is one where the world presented is as unfair, depressing and bleak as the real one with a subtle difference.
		Plotkin manages to distill the disappointments of reality and subtly twist them: as if all your personal problems still existed and in addition you lived in a world without the color red or ever feeling warmth, only vaguely aware that something was missing.
	www.the-underdogs.org /game.php?id=2059 (406 words)

	Adventure Gamers : IF Week Part 3: The Top Five IF Games
		There is plenty of room for interpretation as to what actually happens to your character in the end; form your own opinion after two or three plays.
		Suffice it to say that Plotkin is a master of messing with your head, and this short work, to me, is his greatest masterpiece in that regard.
		Andrew Plotkin should be proud for creating such a short game that can disturb the player so deeply.
	www.adventuregamers.com /article/id,160/p,3 (250 words)

	HandyMed -- Learn with flash cards using HandyCards.
		Andrew Plotkin is no longer working on Zarf's Catalog, this is a copy of his Z'Catalog web site to ensure this highly useful program will continue to be accessible to PalmOS users.
		Z'Catalog 1.0 is copyright 1998 by Andrew Plotkin.
		It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
	www.handymed.com /Support/ZCatalogMirror.htm (869 words)

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		As of the end of 1996, I am at erkyrath@netcom.com Andrew Plotkin 7529 Murray Hill Rd. #322 Columbia, MD 21046 USA Further acknowledgements: Beta testing: Michael "The Inescapable" Kinyon, C. Forman, Neil Demause, Jools Arnold, Magnus Olsson, Gareth Rees.
		(For real.) Andrew Plotkin clarified his copyright licence by email as follows: Well, my intent was the game can be distributed, as long as it is free.
		Andrew Plotkin clarified his copyright licence by email as follows: Well, my intent was the game can be distributed, as long as it is free.
	people.debian.org /~adamm/non-free/licenses/if-transition.txt (1357 words)

	Adventure Gamers : IF Week Part 4: Five IF Personalites
		Website: Zarfhome is a pure-text site full of content, including all of Plotkin's IF games and much more.
		Biography: Andrew Plotkin is revered as a top-notch storyteller.
		Plotkin is a joy to talk to; I thank him for being willing to answer these questions for me.
	www.adventuregamers.com /article/id,161/p,4 (697 words)

	'Invisiclues' for 'So Far' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To go there, enter as a link the name of the time Andrew says (in the afterword) that the dinosaurs disappeared.
		For example, if he said they disappeared 5 billion years ago, the link would be 5.billion.years.html From there you can read through all the hints (including the fake ones) at your leisure, as well as join the discussion I'm trying to facilitate about So Far.
		Likewise, all the clues were written by me, with no help from Andrew.
	www.bioc.rice.edu /~lpsmith/IF/sofar.html (394 words)

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		We have selected "Andrew and the Web" as the theme of this year's conference because Carnegie Mellon University and the Andrew Consortium are at the forefront of developments on the Web.
		The Andrew User Interface System is an integrated set of tools that allow you to create, use, and mail documents and applications containing typographically formatted text and embedded objects.
		AUIS or "Andrew" has three principal components: The Andrew User Environment (AUE) is an integrated set of applications beginning with a 'generic object' editor (ez), a help system, a system monitoring tool (console), an editor-based shell interface (typescript), and support for printing multi-media documents.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /People/AUIS/ftp/web/ftp/NEWSLETTERS/ASCII/95Spring.ascii (2951 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: System's Twilight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		System's Twilight is a wonderful puzzle adventure for the Macintosh, designed by the incomparable Andrew Plotkin (affectionately known in the IF community as "Zarf," Andrew is most famous for excellent IF games, including So Far and Spider and Web).
		With many locations in the gameworld to explore, clever puzzles, and great graphics and animation, you'd be hard pressed to find fault with System's Twilight except to complain of some unfair puzzles (in a sense that they are very difficult).
		Fortunately, Andrew has posted solution to the most unfair puzzle in the game on his website, and you can also ask him personally for help.
	www.the-underdogs.org /game.php?id=1383 (283 words)

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		Andy Plotkin As part of the development of the new PostScript printing system, I am considering the fate of all the troff-generating routines currently in place.
		The underlying Andrew Toolkit architecture (ATK) supports cooperation between objects not only for screen display, but also for file storage, cut/paste across windows, an application construction environment, an extension language, and printing.
		The Andrew Message System(AMS) is a component of AUIS and provides a multi-media interface to mail and bulletin-boards.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /People/AUIS/ftp/web/ftp/ia-archive/apr.94.ascii (6912 words)

	IF Review: So Far
		Is So Far, which Andrew Plotkin released in 1996, science fiction?
		There are wraiths, footprints, fragrances, and lots of sounds, to say nothing of occasional glimpses (or perhaps not...) of a woman named Aessa, who seems to be the PC's romantic interest, though the nature of their relationship is never spelled out.
		The writing is good enough to keep the atmosphere palpable, though Plotkin couldn't resist one or two lapses into goofiness.
	www.musicwords.net /games/sofar.htm (819 words)

	Inform - ZMachine - Glulx
		However, it does have limitations, mostly because of its 16-bit rather than 32-bit architecture, and because its sound and graphics support derives from a complicated historical legacy.
		In the late 1990s, Andrew Plotkin observed that the rival systems for interactive fiction had essentially similar needs, and began work on a common API (i.e., interface by which programs can reach hardware resources) called glk.
		The librarian in charge of this page is Andrew Plotkin.
	www.inform-fiction.org /zmachine/glulx.html (310 words)

	TADS for Macintosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Iain Merrick, with Andrew Pontious, has brought multimedia TADS to the Mac.
		Andrew Plotkin (yes - two Andrew P’s), author of MaxZip and a number of very popular Zmachine-based games including So Far and Spider and Web, has written a second TADS interpreter for MacOS, called MaxTADS.
		Finally, Andrew Pontious is maintaining the first version of TADS for Mac - the one originally written by Mike Roberts.
	www.tela.bc.ca /tads/playing/macintosh.html (751 words)

	XYZZY Awards 2004 - IFWiki
		Finalist: The cistern in The Dreamhold (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
		The awards ceremony took take place on Sunday, March 20, 2005 in the ifMUD's Massive Auditorium at 4pm EST (9pm GMT).
		XYZZYnews Award Ceremony 2004 - Andrew Plotkin's transcript of the ceremony in three columns: officialness on the left, audience cheering in the middle, and peanut gallery comments on the right.
	www.ifwiki.org /index.php/XYZZY_Awards_2004 (395 words)

	RadDial.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I was on a mission to win a cash prize in the annual competition (which means I needed to place in the top 3), and I was writing with tremendous self-confidence.
		I was targeting an audience familiar with IF and with Andrew Plotkin himself, and I was writing material that would quickly become dated.
		The risks did pay off: BAP was the 3rd Place Winner in the 6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, and a nominee for a total of six Xyzzy Awards, and it ended up winning two, for Best Game of the Year and for Best NPCs.
	raddial.com /if/games/bap.html (276 words)

	The Space Under The Window by Andrew Plotkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In virtually all cases, the end story that results is one where the world presented is as unfair, depressing and bleak as our own particular reality with an often singular subtle difference.
		Plotkin manages to distill the disappointments of reality and subtly twist them: as if all your personal problems still existed, yet in addition you lived in a world without the color red or ever feeling warmth.
		It makes you wonder exactly what can be expanded upon, which snippets of Plotkin's writing are still-to-be unearthed.
	www.joltcountry.com /trottingkrips/tsutw.html (483 words)

	Class V gears up with Plotkin hire, Silverstein script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steve Pearlman is looking to hit the ground running when he steps down as Warner Bros. TV executive vp development at month's end to launch his Warner-based production company, Class V Prods.
		Pearlman has recruited another WBTV executive, vp drama development Andrew Plotkin, to serve as Class V executive vp creative affairs, effective June 1.
		"Andrew is somebody that, since he's been here, we've had a great relationship," said Pearlman, who has worked with Plotkin for the past five years.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000495239 (221 words)

	IF Ratings for Dreamhold
		5/25/05 01:20 PM The Dreamhold is very similar to Plotkin's earlier games: lots and lots of symbols and imagery that don't really lead anywhere and a story that's thinner than Calista Flockhart.
		In a way, I felt like a was playing a meta-tragedy.
		Behold, the fate of Andrew, who came to notoriety too early and too easily and therefore believed he could do no wrong.
	www.carouselchain.com /if/comments.php?rategame=2873 (616 words)

	Slashdot \| Zarf in Mac OS X Land
		Andrew Plotkin no figure out scale faster than genie.
		Andrew Plotkin no figure out customize toolbar until days later.
		Andrew Plotkin no figure out time since day be half hour or week.
	slashdot.org /apple/02/03/01/1915202.shtml?tid=179 (4787 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Index this file MacGlk-087.hqx CodeWarrior library package for a Macintosh Glk 0.61 library, version 0.87, written by Andrew Plotkin.
		MacGlk-src-087.hqx Source for Macintosh implementation of Glk, written by Andrew Plotkin.
		xglk-0411.tar.Z XGlk Library version 0.4.11, by Andrew Plotkin An X Window implementation of the Glk API 0.61.
	www.ifarchive.org /if-archive/programming/glk/implementations/Index (268 words)

	Forwarding Address: OS X: C\|Net Bets On Intel
		I made a concious decision to avoid reading them a long time ago and I look forward to the day when links to their articles disappear into that proverbial dustbin of history (mind you Google will still have a cache).
		Funny, I thought that's what Andrew Orlowski at The Register was doing...
		I've spent the evening trying to have it both ways by (a) guessing what Apple might actually be doing with Intel that sparked this, and (b) guessing how Apple could handle a transition if they really do move the Mac to Intel.
	saladwithsteve.com /osx/2005/06/cnet-bets-on-intel.html (293 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		November 2000 17:14 My mighty minion Mark Musante has totalled the votes, and the results are in.
		Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler We also have the results of the Miss Congeniality contest: 1.
		Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Shade, by Andrew Plotkin The full results, along with all sorts of nifty graphs, are available on the competition web page at http://www.textfire.com/comp00.
	www.ifarchive.org /if-archive/games/competition2000/results.txt (91 words)

	MINI-REVIEW: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - macosx.com - Mac Support - NG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		> boscq3$7t0$3@reader2.panix.com, the "profound" and "prolific" Andrew Plotkin
		> > boscq3$7t0$3@reader2.panix.com, the "profound" and "prolific" Andrew Plotkin
		> > > boscq3$7t0$3@reader2.panix.com, the "profound" and "prolific" Andrew
	www.macosx.com /newsgroups/showthread.php?t=94834 (1856 words)

	In-jokes and the IF community
		The two games this year that had the strongest effect on me viscerally -- reaching out of the screen and into my life -- were Being Andrew Plotkin and Shade.
		The plot is quite ruthlessly cribbed: you start off as a runty worker filing papers, you find a door in the wall, it takes you into the head of...
		Well-known IF writer and MUD denizen Andrew Plotkin (aka Zarf).
	www.mindspring.com /~emshort/injoke.htm (1527 words)

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