Jason Dyer

@jdyer.bsky.social

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Game designer making mathematics and science interactive. I also do the All the Adventures project where I play and write about every adventure game ever made in chronological order. http://bluerenga.blog

DEMON'S FORGE A 48K Graphic Adventure label on a large flopping disk marked as by Sabor Software
Picture of the Z-Dog, a stuffed animal with a console backpack and a controller
COLDITZ Vivez l'Aventure! source code with a flying bat
ad from I/O Magazine with a spooky ship
Angel Egg pinball table
TRS-80 screen You can see a vicious DINOSAUR attacking the city!
person inside a computer, depicted in black and white with sparks flying around
“QUEST is a derivative of ADVENTURE and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS”
typing "terminal" in Windows 11 having it look more or less normal rather than a fever dream
the thief puts her behind the wheel and says, drive, baby, the night is ours, it is the Girl Writing a Letter who steers the black van on to the westbound ramp for Storrow Drive and then to the Mass Pike, it's the Girl Writing a Letter who drives eighty miles an hour headed west into a country that's not even discovered yet, with a known criminal, a van full of old masters and nowhere to go but down, but for the Girl Writing a Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love.
screen from the 80s public television classic showing one of the "Casablanca" scenes
Royal Shakespeare Company, The Tempest, 2017, Prospero and Ariel talking about Ariel being trapped in a tree
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Graham being picked up by death in a boat
Black and white Apple II image with A BAD SMELL COMES FROM SOUTHEAST. A HAIRY OGRE IS COUNTING MONEY HERE.
Letter from "Contra Central" including details about how to REPLACE wires, and also how there is a bad cable left behind by the predecessor who tried to kill everyone
Pick the word beans and don’t pick the word that’s not beans
Castle Dracula tape cover, with castle and bat
99 squares linked together into a map
McCoy and Dr Who in conversation
THE DWARF IS UNSATHED
He padded out in his stocking feet, leaving the door behind him open to avoid unnecessary noise. He crept down the stairs to the second floor. The students' toilet was at the other end of the long corridor with the spinach-green classroom doors. Racing against time, Bastian ran as fast as he could and just made it. As he sat there, he wondered why heroes in stories like the one he was reading never had to worry about such problems. Once – when he was much younger – he had asked his religion teacher if Jesus Christ had had to go like an ordinary person. After all, he had taken food and drink like everyone else. The class had howled with laughter, and the teacher, instead of an answer, had given him several demerits for ‘insolence’. He hadn't meant to be insolent. ‘Probably,' Bastian now said to himself, ‘these things are just too unimportant to be mentioned in stories.’
The first paragraph of the book A Game of Thrones (from the Prologue), translated into Spanish, is: English Original: "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile. Spanish Translation: "—Deberíamos volver ya —instó Gared mientras los bosques se tornaban más y más oscuros a su alrededor—. Los salvajes están muertos. —¿Te dan miedo los muertos?" This translation is consistent with the official Spanish version of the book.
Watch Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a real time competition featuring a group of sexy singles
concept art in pencil of a floating crystal word the words "beam splitter with the main control on the balcony"
Husband of Margaret Thatcher with a shotgun named "Purdy" and thinking about various people having their heads be put on hunting plaques
MITS MOBILE Computer Caravan Welcome to the Altair Short Course
Chapter 1, EDGAR ALLEN POE INVESTIGATES
ACS Computer Cassette with handwritten notes
CHARLATAN OR TOTAL FOOL
DOCTOR OF MAZEOLOGY
diploma showing THIRD GRADE FAILURE
Apple II screen with a mysterious box and the text GET CRACKER
A box-looking shape, the size of a book, with a small diagonal line marking one corner
Steam achievements showing "Pastroland" and "Time Eleven"
A ring of circles 11, most which are connected, with a West End Long Hall at one side and a Dead End Vending Machine at the other
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disk of Fun House, with label in the upper left and a plain white sleeve
Map of Alkemstone with the clue locations marked.
picture of a SYM-1, essentially a giant circuit board with a calculator bolted on top
“We think of our games as interactive fiction,” says Berlyn. “You design the environment, simulate it the best you can. You throw the characters into the situation and establish the goals.”
cover of Micro magazine with a castle photo and a crayon drawing of a knight fighting a dragon
cover of game Critical Mass, nuclear explosions in background
map of the interior of a rocket ship
The far end of the room has an altar of the Sun God.
picture of a complex of buildings on a stormy planet with the words BBC - Doctor Who
Lady Portia and the caskets