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By Hugo Labrande 06/10/2022 - >REMEMBER - The end! 05/10/2022 - Issue #18 - A new Inform! 04/10/2022 - Issue #17 - Adventuring with Adventuron 03/10/2022 - Issue #16 - Adaptations 02/10/2022 - Issue #15 - Deutsche Textadventures 01/10/2022 - Issue #14 - Digging through Quill games 12/10/2021 - Issue #13 - Translations galore! 11/10/2021 - Issue #12: Play text adventures on printer paper 10/10/2021 - Issue #11 - Demakes 09/10/2021 - Issue #10 - Saving the player's progress 08/10/2021 - Issue #9: A first-person recount of Spanish text adventures 0...

This will come as a surprise to you, but there is no new issue of ">REMEMBER" this month - and in fact, there will not be any other one! This, my friends, is the end of the road for this newsletter. I know this will be disappointing to some, as there are a few hundreds of you who really enjoyed the newsletter, the updates on my projects and the community projects, and the monthly article! When I started this newsletter, it was because I had a lot of things that I wanted to talk about, or investigate, in the world of retro text adventures; the monthly articles were really the occasion for me to dig deeper into some topics that intereste...

Step right up! This new issue of ">REMEMBER" has it all! A great article! News of the world! An exclusive announcement! My news Last month, I announced the title of my next text adventure: The Depths of Time ! This month, I'm telling you more about it 😉 Tristam Island was, in a sense, my take on the "stuck on a deserted island" genre, with a few references to Infocom. The Depths of Time will be a cave-crawling adventure, inspired by Adventure of course, and few other ones! But I am adding my own twist: this particular cave will be set in France 😉 What does this mean? You'll see, but I'm quite excited at the setting and th...

A great interview, tons of community news, and an exciting announcement? That's right, it's ">REMEMBER" time! My news This month, I am happy to report on the release of my French translation of the PunyInform libraries! I had translated the libraries when writing "L'île Tristam" in 2021; in the last few weeks, I've cleaned them up, to offer a version that would match version 3.2 of the PunyInform libraries. I am planning in the next few weeks to catch up with PunyInform, which is currently at version 3.5. Exciting!! Next month, I will be pulling the curtain back on my next game... But this month, as an exclusive, you ge...

Hello, hello! More retro text adventure goodness in your inbox, just like every month! Thank you for your continuous support 🙂 My news I have started some preliminary work on my next game, but I am not ready to announce anything just yet - I'd like to have everything lined up first! Next month, I promise! 😄 In the meantime, I will be giving a talk on Tristam Island for the Commodore Users Europe group, this Saturday evening! This will be a 20 minute talk at the end of the session, which runs between 730pm and 9pm (Paris time); I will be talking about the game's design and the tools that I've used. Join us! (And for those who...

This month's article is another interview, about retro text adventures in German! But who could our guest be? Read on! 😁 My news You might not be aware of it, but I write more than text adventures! Although it is my first love, and I don't see myself even leaving the genre, I also write other kinds of narrative games, and I offer my services as a contract writer / narrative designer. Last year, I wrote two games in the "visual novel" format for a mobile application, a "serious game" to teach graduate students about the scientific method and epistemology for a college in Montréal, and a tabletop RPG for a Twitch show produced ...

Hello hello! Welcome to the first ">REMEMBER" of the year 2022! The Apple II is going to turn 45 soon, the Speccy is turning 40... And text adventures are even older than that! It's amazing to think about how old this genre is, and how much it still has going on! The "Community News" section this month is particularly long, and I think you'll enjoy this month's article - I had a lot of fun making it! But first... My news My news? What do you mean, my news? Why, of course, last month was the month I released a very big project! Release 3 of "Tristam Island" is now out, with an even smaller file size, some optimizations, doze...

Hello, hello! Welcome to Issue #13th of ">REMEMBER"! This month's article was a lot of fun, as I got to talk about one of my favorite topics to a bunch of cool people 🙂 I hope you like it! My news I am extremely busy this month putting the finishing touches on Release 3 of "Tristam Island", which coincides with the release of "L'île Tristam", the French translation. When I say extremely busy, it's non-stop, at least one hour every day for the past few weeks! You're lucky I still found time to write you an article this month 😉 I will release it on December 20th, and am looking forward to moving on to different projects...

Happy birthday ">REMEMBER"! This newsletter has officially been around for a year! I'm very proud of that, and to have written 12 articles on retro text adventures. Thank you for signing up and making the newsletter's readership grow! And as I mentioned last month, this issue's article took a little while (and some money!) to put together. But I think it's worth it 😉 This month's article is a DIY project, so read on! Supporting me A few people have asked if there is a way to support my work like this newsletter - thank you 😀 I haven't formally opened a "tip jar" (like Ko-fi), but I welcome donations if you are...

This newsletter is almost one year old - isn't that wild? 😀 And even better, its subscriber count has grown every month, and you are now several hundreds to receive my emails every month! To celebrate the occasion, I am preparing a special #12 issue - special as in, I am embarking this month on a very neat project that will take me way more time than usual, and Issue #12's article will be a tutorial with everything you need to replicate it. You won't want to miss it! 😉 My news I haven't talked about Aaron Reed's 50 years of text games project in a long while, as the premise of his newsletter is that every week, a new...