Episode 5 - Leonard Richardson

Leonard Richardson talks about a number of free and open-source games he made, as well as his time running a goofy BBS as a kid. We discuss the experience of having dozens of strangers create their own riffs of a game he tossed together in a couple of days, writing interactive fiction as a stepping stone to writing non-interactive fiction, and Nethack code patches as a form of fanfiction.

• Choppy the Pork Chop (Play online)
• Some Prodigy ads
• Mustang Software / Wildcat! BBS
• Party line
• Da Da Warren Memorial Memorial
• Door games (Tradewars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon)
• David Griffith
• Museum of ZZT
• Worlds of ZZT, feat. Leonard's 1993 game House of Bob (Play in browser)
• Behold, mortal, the origins of robotfindskitten, slides for a talk given by Leonard for Roguelike Celebration 2017.
• Pete Peterson II
• PalmOS robotfindskitten
• Apple II and C64 robotfindskitten
• Atari 2600 robotfindskitten dev diary
• robotfindskitten.org
• OpenGL robotfindskitten
• cc65 C compiler for C64
• The Ultimate robotfindskitten Fan Site / robotfindskitten 2: This time it's personal!
• Original MS-DOS version of robotfindskitten (playable in-browser)
• What Fools These Mortals
• Leonard's Nethack patches
• Planetfall (playable in-browser)
• Lost Treasures of Infocom
• The Interactive Fiction Archive
• TADS
• Guess the Verb (IFDB, ClubFloyd transcript, Play in browser)
• IFComp
• Degeneracy (Postmortem, ClubFloyd transcript, IFDB, Play in browser)
• Constellation Games
• Darius Kazemi's Fuck Videogames
• The Minecraft Archive Project