29 October 2025
Halloween theme's up. My sincere apologies for the delay. It totally slipped my mind after I promised in the previous update... multiple times. I think I'll leave it up until 29 November and put up the Christmas theme with the release of
the Carnival of Nyarlathotep.
26 October 2025
Remember the good old days when Macula was still supposed to be something other than the website's unwitting eldritch mascot? Well, if anyone's somehow still interested in that, you may be happy to know that the first in a series of three games, two ZZT and the final one the text adventure tentatively called Macula's Maze, is finally well on its way. Introducing, the official website for the
Carnival of Nyarlathotep, 'next-door' at the macula subdomain, just to make this place even more of a labyrinth.
The game itself will release on 29 November (entirely because that's the date I chose for the story), but you can find screenshots and other fun stuff on the site. Additionally, there will be another update before the release date. So far, I think it's easily my magnum opus, and definitely worth checking out if you enjoy my style of humour and/or have an interest in 90s popular culture. (:
...Oh right, the stinking Halloween theme. I'll put that up tomorrow. I have to do it entirely manually because I'm an idiot who doesn't automate anything, and always put it off. as a result.
30 June 2025
I released a new ZZT toolkit that introduces the first 'exotic tiles' discovered for the game in decades - white-on-grey text/ASCII
tiles, blinking white-on-black text/ASCII tiles, and blinking white-on-grey text/ASCII tiles! You can download it
here directly or from
the ZZT section. A detailed explanation of how these tiles were coaxed out of
the game is included in the text file. This will not render correctly in KevEdit and likely any other third party tool, but it will appear just fine in vanilla DOS ZZT.
25 May 2025
Once a month isn't that bad in terms of updates, I suppose. At least I'm no longer half a year behind on finally doing an update.
Anyhow, I've been really meaning to make another old fashioned dark comedy
Library of Babel rant, but was waiting for the inspiration to strike. Now finally, I decided to write
a scathing takedown of reddit, after coming to the conclusions that it is perhaps the worst of all of the social media sites. Enjoy!
I'm still working on my next ZZT game (
there's a preview in my ZZTcast channel if you missed it). It's ballooning into a two-file sort of deal due to ZZT's file size limitations, so expect at least file 1 of 2 sometime later this year, as well as hopefully other updates.
20 April 2025
I'm not dead yet! It took years to finally get it out, but
ZZTcast is finally done. This is a
ZZT zine mimicking the esteemed ZZTV games from decades past. There wound up being only one contributor (
my friend Angel Kitty), but I'd say what's there is pretty good. Or, I hope it is anyway, given how long this took...
If anyone has wondered if I'm ever going to actually write a
Reminiscence article about ZZT... that's also part of my channel. Enjoy, and happy Easter! (:
30 November 2024
I have released a new ZZT game,
Iguanamus, an experimental three-games-in-one sort of deal that attempts to take the storied Viovisian genre in new directions. It starts off as a generic psychedelic game before you hit a fork that takes you to the three games. You can
read a more detailed description and see some screenshots here or
download the game directly from here.
05 June 2024
It took far longer than it should have, but I finally got around to adding a brand new section to the Kingdom -
the
Kinoteatr (Russian for movie theatre) - dedicated to reviews (and hopefully, eventually more things) for episodes of various 90s television shows I have started watching! As
of this writing,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the only one, largely because I insist on making a unique design from scratch for each page of the section.
I tried to make the new section as authentically 90s as possible and took pains to use only fonts from back then or earlier if at all possible, stuck to pure HTML 4 (minus the background MIDI on the Buffy page) with no CSS, and of course sprinkled a generous amount of 90s clipart all over the place. The plan right now is for
Tales From the Crypt to have a comically old school page owing to the age of the show, and
Charmed and
Sabrina the Teenage Witch to have more 2000s-styled designs, but we'll see how that goes.
17 March 2024
It's been almost 3 years since the last update to the page, and since there's hardly any shortage of stupid, vexing, or simply odd-sounding popular words and phrases going around these days, I made yet another update to the
Words/Phrases I Hate article. I had a long-standing habit of writing those sorts of articles while getting drunk, an activity I have since quit indulging in. Hopefully, however, it still came out at least somewhat entertaining regardless.
I also finally added a few new subsections (complete with snazzy signs) to
the Dock to break things up a bit:
Build Engine Games/Resources for sites related to any of the Build engine games (
Duke Nukem 3D,
Ion Fury,
Blood, etc) or the engine itself,
Jedi Knight/Dark Forces for sites related to the
Star Wars Jedi Knight/Dark Forces franchise, and
Modern Games, for anything related primarily to games from ~1996 to the current year. If the cutoff for that last category seems unorthodox, rest assured I plan to write an article explaining my rationale behind that in detail one of these days.
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a detailed manifesto on restoring the Web to its former glory, to
articles about autism from the perspective of an actually autistic adult, to
interactive shrines to classic 90s computer games, to
a shrine to the Ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bast, to
articles on astrophysics, to
various spooky horror-related pages, and much more! There's also a fairly vast
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I am Koshka (Russian for cat) and I am a devotee of many things who misses the free, wild, and creative Web of olde, and is grateful for the opportunity to recreate it in my own little space. In spite of the aesthetics of the front page,
I am in fact a male - I'm just a big fan of "girly" aesthetics like pink/purple, hearts, cats, etc and
not afraid to show it.
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