Gold Machine

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    • About the Gold Machine Project
    • Gold Microphone: a Podcast
    • Table of Contents
  • December 30, 2021

    Introducing Gold Microphone: A Gold Machine Podcast

  • December 29, 2021

    Never Trust a Lady Mechanic: Final Thoughts on The Witness

  • A shot from the 1946 film "The Big Sleep" starring Humphrey Bogart. In this scene, quintissential noir detective Phillip Marlowe (played by Humprey Bogart) visits a library for research purposes.
    December 27, 2021

    More Than a Feelie? The Disjointed Text of The Witness

  • December 19, 2021

    Occidence Will Happen: The Witness

  • A black and white photograph of French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his pet cat, Logos.
    December 15, 2021

    Project Update 12/15/2021

  • December 13, 2021

    Game Shows Touch Our Lives: Final Thoughts on Suspended

  • The cover of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery and Other Stories." The cover art features a black and white photo of Jackson that has been cut into rounded, irregular shapes. They appear to have been placed at random, so her face cannot be easily seen as a face.
    December 10, 2021

    Suspended: Welcome to the Machine

  • A depiction of a brain in a jar, supended in clear liquid. It is facing a computer monitor that shows a brain in a vat.
    December 8, 2021

    For All We Know: Suspended

  • December 7, 2021

    Are Video Games an Ethical Pastime? Activision, etc.

  • December 6, 2021

    Let Them Have Dominion: The Human-Centered Cosmology of Starcross

  • December 3, 2021

    The Rod in the Dumpster: Flying Saucers and the Ambiguous Ending of Starcross

  • December 1, 2021

    Space Zork: Starcross

  • November 29, 2021

    Zork Is Dead. Long Live Zork.

  • An overhead view of the Royal Puzzle (unsolved): a six by six grid with eight movable blocks and four unmovable ones.
    November 23, 2021

    Whose Zork Is It Anyway? The Steep Price of Authorial Ambiguity in Zork III

  • November 21, 2021

    Which “It” Did You Mean, Exactly? The Plot and Packaging of Zork III

  • November 18, 2021

    An Introduction to Zork III: It All Came Down to… That?

  • November 14, 2021

    Deadline’s Connecticut of the Mind: Nostalgia, Privilege, and Mental Illness

  • November 12, 2021

    Quantum Detective: Deadline and the Many Worlds Interpretation

  • The sealed crime dossier included with Deadline. A brown folder sealed with a red and white "DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE" label.
    November 9, 2021

    Hard Evidence: Realizing the Story of Deadline

  • November 6, 2021

    Deadline: There is a Bear in the Rosebush

  • November 5, 2021

    Gold Machine Project Update #1

  • November 2, 2021

    Zork II: Power, Specialization, and the Evolution of a Colonist

  • October 31, 2021

    Zork II, Idolatry, and the Legendary Awfulness of Two Puzzles

  • October 29, 2021

    Digging Into the Embodied Zork II: Packaging, Diskettes, and Plotlines

  • October 27, 2021

    Zork II: A Thief, a Technocrat, and a Demon Walk Into a Cave

  • October 25, 2021

    Deposition, Acquisition, and Deferred Satisfaction in Zork I.

  • A skeleton slumps on a stair, a bag of coins and a knife nearby. A depiction of a room in Zork I
    October 19, 2021

    Zork I: Thief in a Box

  • October 13, 2021

    Zork I: Looting Simulator ’80

  • October 12, 2021

    ADVENT and Dungeon: The Pirate and the Thief

  • October 11, 2021

    A Note on Resources and Methods:

  • October 1, 2021

    How I Learned to Love Typing: The Games of Infocom

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