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My name is Linus Åkesson, though some of you may know me as lft. I live in Lund, Sweden.
This combined homepage, blog and file archive is bilingual. If you understand Swedish, you may wish to enable even more content by checking the corresponding box near the top of the page.
Latest pages:
Carefree (It'll be okay)
A little bit of solace in distressing times. Read more.
Posted Wednesday 25-Mar-2020 06:39, 7 comments.
Watch Room
I am proud to have contributed, in a small but significant way, to the award-winning sci-fi short film Watch Room. Read more.
Posted Sunday 19-Jan-2020 22:42, 6 comments.
Craverly Heights in Dialog
In 2014, Ryan Veeder released a small text game called Craverly Heights, along with its Inform 7 source code. He has kindly allowed me to port this game to Dialog, and display the two implementations side by side in order to highlight similarities and differences between the two languages. Read more.
Posted Friday 10-Jan-2020 07:53, 1 comment.
C64 Å-machine interpreter
My two text games Tethered and Pas De Deux are now available for the Commodore 64. Read more.
- Tethered-rel4.d64 (C64 disk image, 170.8 kB)
- tethered-rel4-sleeve.pdf (Disk sleeve, 327.5 kB)
- Pas-De-Deux-rel2.d64 (C64 disk image, 170.8 kB)
- pasdedeux-rel2-feelies.zip (Additional material, 1.7 MB)
- pasdedeux-rel2-sleeve.pdf (Disk sleeve, 1.0 MB)
Posted Monday 25-Nov-2019 21:57, 0 comments.
Pas De Deux
Pas De Deux was my entry in the 25th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp 2019). It ended up on 24rd place, out of 82 games. Read more.
- pas-de-deux-rel3.zip (Release 3, 7.6 MB)
- pas-de-deux-rel2.zip (Release 2, 7.6 MB)
- pas-de-deux-rel1.zip (Original IFComp version, 5.1 MB)
- pas-de-deux-rel2-src.zip (Source code, 2.3 MB)
Posted Monday 18-Nov-2019 22:12, 0 comments.
Xyzzy Award 2018
Yay! Dialog got the 2018 Xyzzy Award for Best Technological Development. Read more.
Posted Sunday 18-Aug-2019 08:53, 4 comments.
The Å-machine
The Å-machine is a virtual machine for delivering interactive stories. It is designed for stories implemented in the Dialog programming language. Read more.
- aamachine-0.5.2.zip (Å-machine version 0.5.2, 911.9 kB)
- aamachine-0.5.1.zip (Å-machine version 0.5.1, 911.6 kB)
- aamachine-0.4.4.zip (Å-machine version 0.4.4, 880.7 kB)
- aamachine-0.4.3.zip (Å-machine version 0.4.3, 880.6 kB)
- aamachine-0.4.2.zip (Å-machine version 0.4.2, 870.6 kB)
- aamachine-0.4.1.zip (Å-machine version 0.4.1, 870.4 kB)
Posted Tuesday 4-Jun-2019 07:28, 14 comments.