Being Andrew Plotkin vs Counterfeit Monkey

Released in 2000, Being Andrew Plotkin is a comedic interactive fiction game written by J. Robinson Wheeler using the Inform programming language. The game is a direct parody of the 1999 film Being John Malkovich, placing the player in the mind of Andrew Plotkin, a prominent and influential figure in the interactive fiction community. It features traditional text-parser gameplay and was a notable...

Counterfeit Monkey is a text-based puzzle game written by Emily Short and released in 2012. Set in a fictional version of Atlantis where linguistic technology allows users to manipulate objects by altering the letters in their names, the game centers on an underground movement resisting language restrictions. The puzzles revolve around using tools to add, remove, or change letters in words to tran...