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I'm Drew Cook (aka kamineko or biting cat)! I make content about narrative games. Some bullet points:
making stuff ✨
talking about making stuff ✨
IF is for everyone, games are for everyone 💫
In terms of raw numbers, I think I might be best known for some of my game criticism, but I love making games more than anything. Click on for some links and stuff!
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One of my A Mind Forever Voyaging pieces got mentioned in Critical Distance's "2023 in videogame blogging." Don't see a lot of text game writing out there in mainstream video game discourse. Feels good!
It probably doesn’t bear repeating that 2023 was a roller coaster of a year. The highs were very high, the lows were very low, and we spent
It has a Kierkegaard quote and everything, very classy.
In this final post about Steve Meretzky's A Mind Forever Voyaging, Gold Machine assesses the conclusion of that groundbreaking game.
That's that! The end of a 13-part series on Trinity.
In this final post about Infocom's Trinity, Drew considers philosophical responses to its rather bleak conclusion.
Trinity content!
An initial foray into the small vignettes that form the dramatic and thematic heart of Trinity, beginning with a very memorable dolphin.
New Content!
Hi everybody. It's been a challenging few months, as my disability symptoms have really been acting up. The result is that I haven't been able to work on any of my projects, no matter how much I normally enjoy them.
But things are looking up! Here's the first podcast episode in 20 months, and more stuff is coming soon.
If it isn't showing up on your favorite platform, let me know and I'll get it added.
After nearly two years, host Drew Cook returns solo! This reboot episode lays out a framework for future discussions of Infocom's Trinity an
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It's here! New podcast episode
Today, on Gold Microphone:
Microsoft studio closures rant
Brief announcement (WIP)
Graham Nelson's The Craft of the Adventure
Problems of urgency and seriousness in Trinity and A Mind Forever Voyaging
The bulk of the discussion is about Nelson's Craft of the Adventure, a foundational work of game design craft. It has broad application beyond parser works and is definitely worth a look!
This discussion is all building toward a future analysis of narrative friction in Brian Moriarty's Trinity.
Drew returns to discuss a foundational work of game design craft, Graham Nelson's The Craft of the Adventure (1995). This is part of a large
Trinity Stuff, Cont'd
I'm continuing to make my way through Trinity, this time discussing genre and narrative instability.
With critical backgrounding out of the way, Gold Machine begins its examination of Trinity's narrative features.
Time for a New Pinned Post
Hi, I'm Drew Cook. I'm probably best known for my long-form criticism of 1980s text adventure games by a company called Infocom. They made thirty-five games in total, and are probably best-known for the Zork trilogy of games. My interests as a critic are mostly cultural and historical. For instance, I choose to look at Zork through a post-colonial lens.
My work has been featured at Critical Distance many times, including their "2022 Year in Videogame Blogging" roundup.
When I stick to my posting schedule (every two weeks), I get around five hundred unique visitors a month. That's pretty large for such a niche topic. Reactions to the site have made me very happy. It's called Gold Machine. Come pay me a visit!
Gold Machine : Literary readings of interactive texts.
