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David Welbourn

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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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Uh, that's not a complete list, by the way. That's why I haven't made it official and public yet.

11.03.2026 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Losing endings in Time: All Things Come to an End

I also got enamored of all the crazy ways one can lose the game. I made a secret list of them: plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

11.03.2026 00:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had already played it quite some time ago and had the illusions of fond memories of it. I also felt it was the sort of game that both needed a verbose walkthough and one that I had a decent chance at succeeding at. And I discovered I needed help with it as well, because it is VERY difficult.

11.03.2026 00:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thirst world problems.

27.02.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I suppose if a Neutral Barbarian had a cheevos card, finding Sierra barefoot in the snow could be on it. Glad he's getting so much enjoyment from it?

27.02.2026 14:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New walkthroughs for February 2026 - 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...

Today I published new walkthroughs for Time: All Things Come to an End (1996), The Party Line (2020), Zodiac (2025), The Seeds of Evil (2026), Every Day I Get Emails (2025), I Have No Verbs (2025), The Loneliest House (2023), and Reference and Representation (2016)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

27.02.2026 11:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I do run my finger inside the shell to get the last bit of egg, but I only know to do that because I read a book by Sam Levenson where he described his mother doing that in a chapter about food and never quite having enough of it, so nothing could be wasted.

11.02.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New walkthroughs for January 2026 - 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...

Today I published new walkthroughs for Unknown Dimension; All That Shimmers; Kill Wizard; Quirky Test; Uptown 1; Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider; greenskeep; and The Organ Grinder's Monkey, all from 2025! List at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

29.01.2026 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

T-Boner-Rex.

27.01.2026 23:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon) Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon. The plan: deconstruct every Infocom game, one per month, and make the source code explorable.

Here we go...

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

26.01.2026 23:12 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
Infinite Craft Emojis

A couple days ago, I found the fire emoji in Infinite Craft, quite by accident, and I've spent time I don't have finding more emojis via that first one. It feels like I've unlocked a secret section of the game. I'm documenting my finds at plover.net/~davidw/ic/I...

07.01.2026 04:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Snowémon Ho Ho Ho! You're an adventurer on holiday, and you decided to take it easy by traveling to a remote northern town and search for snowémon, which are creatures made of snow and ice. Find as many different kinds ...

By the way, did I mention I wrote a new Christmas-themed Pokemon-inspired game? ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

27.12.2025 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Year of Walkthroughs: 2025

Here's my year's-end round-up of all the walkthroughs I published in 2025, represented by their Open Graph arwork: plover.net/~davidw/sol/...

27.12.2025 18:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New walkthroughs for December 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...

New walkthroughs for The Wise-Woman's Dog (2025); The Evil Sorcerer (2001); The Wrath of Anubis (2025); Caribbean Treasure (2025); Beat Me Up Scotty (2023); Cheese, Go Home! (2008); Fired (2025); Go-Strange-Ghost Range (2025); Limen (2021); and Rain Check-in (2025)! See ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

27.12.2025 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Night's Master is excellent and the first sequel Death's Master is almost as good. But I have trouble remembering what Delusion's Master is about, and I can't remember anything at all about the Delirium's Mistress.

07.12.2025 06:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, I noticed that too. I'll try re-writing that part to use flexbox, now that I know that.

30.11.2025 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@salty-horse.bsky.social Okay, it should be fixed now. Thanks again.

30.11.2025 05:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New walkthroughs for November 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...

New walkthroughs for Veritas (1995), Who Whacked Jimmy Piñata? (2025), Guma Adventure III (2024), Rise of the Necropolis (2018), AardVarK Versus the Hype (2021), Monkeys and Car Keys (2025), Return to the Castle (2020), and The Semantagician's Assistant (2025)! IFDB list at ifdb.org/viewlist?id=...

30.11.2025 03:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ack! I'll get onto that as soon as I can! Thanks for the correction!

30.11.2025 03:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Kinophobia by Bruno Dias Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

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

31.10.2025 16:25 👍 62 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 4

If only all streakers looked so good.

01.11.2025 11:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...

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=...

28.10.2025 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brie senting and serving.

23.10.2025 09:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lucky. The best abandoned food I've ever found (at different times) in real life was a chocolate bar and a bag of pretzels. The chocolate bar was on top of a snowbank beside a mailbox.

10.10.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
checkered flag

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The Ludum Dare 58 Compo event has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your games now! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

05.10.2025 22:03 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...

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=...

30.09.2025 15:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...

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=...

29.08.2025 21:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I do like it, thank you, but what part of that image is the pool? Is the pool, us, the viewers?

16.08.2025 10:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Drano pure

16.08.2025 10:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's a suit? Are you sure that's not a hot dog?

08.08.2025 17:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0