Notices by Andrew Plotkin (zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place)

I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:

If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.

The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.

Now I formally put forth the plea:

Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision

(Yes, I’m part of a nonprofit that could do that.)

Pass it along.

#InteractiveFiction

Did I mention that my company is hiring on the narrative side?

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED/743999873331371-narrative-director

This is a narrative-team-lead job. The Molasses Flood is working on a Witcher-universe game (google "cd projekt sirius") and we are moving into the phase that requires a bigger and more organized narrative team.

(I am the engineer who builds tools for the narrative team! It's fun. The tools are a work in progress.)

#Games #Jobs #GameDev