Eaten By A Grue: Infocom, Text Adventures, and Interactive Fiction
Carrington Vanston and Kay SavetzCarrington Vanston and Kay Savetz review classic text adventures and modern interactive fiction.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 56 | Founded | 9 years ago |
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| Categories | Video GamesLeisure | ||||
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How long does it take to load a saved game of Adventureland on the TRS-80? A little over a year, apparently. Kay and Carrington are back and ready to tackle tricky text adventures once again. It's a Christmas disaster! I mean, a Christmas miracle! Ma... more
Kay has created a 50,000 word choose your own adventure novel for NaNoGenMo, and Carrington has nothing in his home to sit on. One of the hosts has their life much more together than the other, but who's to say which one. Okay, it's Kay.
Hosts: Kay... more
Procrastination is the name of the game when Kay and Carrington play Violet. Okay, technically Violet is the name of the game when Kay and Carrington play Violet, but you know what I mean. Note to self: write a better summary for this podcast episode... more
The Grue Gang tackles one of modern IF's most intricate and interesting games, in which letters can be added or deleted from words at any time and anything can be rearranged. Grue can become gruel, games can become gams, and podcasters can become rea... more
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Carrington Vanston's zany humour and Kay Savetz' sensible opinions make this a podcast to listen to, especially if you are into 'old-school' interactive fiction games. Which I am.
Podcast Addict410 months agolexthehex- I for one love the theme song.
Been listening for years. Love it! When I was doing a podcast cleanup, I saw they hadn’t uploaded for a while like a year plus but I couldn’t bring myself to unsubscribe and little did I know they would be back the very next day. Maybe I manifested this… Anyway, super engaging fun and what a great theme song, thanks! Aly PS I don’t think mystery games are all that bad
Apple Podcasts5podcastnerd22
United States10 months ago - Righting a wrong!
Somehow I managed to pocket dial a one start review a few years ago. I discovered this while digging into the “my account” info on my phone. It showed me my reviews, I saw a no comment one star review and I was horrified, I love this show!!
Keep up the great and twisty work!
Apple Podcasts5RH attorney at lawUnited States2 years ago - Great podcast
If you are interested in old text games, this is a must.
Apple Podcasts5eskeandersen
Denmark2 years ago - Lose the intro song!
Not a bad podcast, but for God’s sake lose that stupid f-ing intro song. I can tolerate most things, but I almost turned off the podcast when I heard that nonsense. I don’t know why that is so popular amongst the IF community.
That said, the podcast itself was decent. The one on Zork I actually had some new info. I recommend that if you’re going to reference something, then research it prior. “I think” and “I’m not sure” isn’t really going to keep audiences captivated.
Apple Podcasts3KpkilburnUnited States3 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #123 |  Italy/Leisure/Video Games |
Apple Podcasts | #174 |  Germany/Leisure/Video Games |
Apple Podcasts | #37 | Denmark/Leisure/Video Games |
Apple Podcasts | #202 | Denmark/Leisure |
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