My #InteractiveFiction disasterpiece, the aggressively awful yet sincerely huggy Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, celebrates its 18th birthday today!
If you've never played a text adventure before, this free game will give you the wrong idea about them in ways that may never fully heal. If you've played ToaSK already, Gunwar and Vessa have _missed you._ Come home, barbarian! 馃グ
https://ghalev.itch.io/toask
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=8upuvdnsk4sho6ac
Tangentially, on ToaSK's birthday I raise a glass to the memory of the Spicy Pickle.
The Spicy Pickle was a little sandwich shop in Denver, selling panini, each with a genuinely spicy pickle. I created ToaSK almost entirely there, at the original location.
They tried to become a chain, flew too close to the sun, and didn't make it. But I can still taste my panino every time I revisit ToaSK.