Why end with 30?

At the bottom of each entry in this site’s blog, I use </30> to designated the end of the it. In my own way, it’s a nod to the tradition of ending newspaper stories (and occasionally broadcast and magazine pieces) with – 30 -. While no one’s sure why 30 was used as an end sign, there…

Mystery House Taken Over

The artists will reverse engineer Mystery House, the first graphical adventure game; reimplement it in a modern, free language for interactive fiction development; and make a kit freely available to the public so that others may modify Mystery House Taken Over as they see fit. The artists will create their own modified versions and commission…