Drew Cook: A Biting Cat

@bitingcat.bsky.social

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Text games, cats. This they writes and writes about parser games. Baton Rouge, they.

Album cover for the Guided by Voices album "Propeller" A simplistic, pixelated image of a propeller airplane over a black and orange background.
Blog post title: "read the manual"
A black cat with large eyes looking down sadly
text: the text is an environmentally irresponsible trash generator, sorry if that didn’t come across!
Photo of a two-toned purple headset with cushioned headphones
A retro-style image of a woman in profile with a black ponytail. Her eyes have been redacted with a horizontal stripe. Posted on a light orange background. Text at bottom reads "RTE"
Diagram of choices in parser game Portrait with Wolf (the game itself is text only)
A screenshot of the interactive fiction game Repeat the Ending playing in a web browser.
Two young women sitting back-to-back, each holding a laptop computer in their laps. Their expressions are hard-to-place. A faint smile, perhaps?
Screenshot from the Inform 10 IDE. It depicts some cover art of a toothsome wolf. "Report on Release: Succeeded"
a sketch of what seems a scaled, dragon-like wolf's head
An interactive fiction text game interface displaying an image of a small black cat.
Some well-dressed video game villains in dark clothing and sunglasses
Screenshot of a text game. Text: After Lunch [To edit what prints here, Drew, Marbles, and D updated the "table of room descriptions." Since this is the second turn or choice node, they put this text in row two.] Whew! I bet you feel better now, huh Marbles? I'm going to play some games for a while. You can keep yourself busy with this catnip mouse. There you go! Get it! [The below texts regarding choices can be found in Books 6 and 7 of the template.] I had a bunch of games for my Commodore 64, mostly copied by my friend's big brother. He's in high school! What did I want to play? (1) Zork III (2) A different part from Zork III (3) The Lurking Horror (4) Spellbreaker
A slender black cat with a white tuft of belly fur.
A black cat curled up in a box. She is a little too large for it, but is managing to sleep anyway.
My bloodborne character wearing a modernized-yet-Victorian black leather trenchcoat. A large, full moon hangs low in the sky behind her.
A black cat sitting on a black box beside some AD&D books and a sealed copy of Zork I
A screenhot of the itch.io user profile page. It includes fields for Threads, Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky, as well as one for a personal website..