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.

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