Excalibur

"The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans...Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the details of an obscure science fantasy television series from the 1970s. Though much of its...

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Alias 'The Magpie': Postmortem

Alias ‘The Magpie’, my sixth IF game, took 1st Place overall, and 1st Place, Miss Congeniality, in the 24th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2018). In the grand tradition of IFComp, I have written a 'postmortem'; a short essay in which I reflect on the process of...

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Renegade Brainwave

"Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will terrify you with their brutal reality! For this is the story...

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Alias 'The Magpie'

"It always pays to keep one's ears free of wax, as one never knows when one is going to overhear some titbit of information that later proves invaluable. Such was the case at the Dionysus Club, yesterday afternoon, when you happened to overhear the noted psychiatrist, Doctor...

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To Hell in a Hamper

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling companion Hubert Booby will be burned to a cinder by an erupting volcano!...

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Escape from the Crazy Place

You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places including custard-filled caverns, the world's worst Indian restaurant,...

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Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!

You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic. Recently promoted to the post of junior marketing executive at the Funhouse Novelty Company, you're the one who comes up with all those zany items you can buy for a Dollar in the pages of Cosmic Comics. But...

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