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Jimmy Maher today announced the release of his long-in-progress “The King of Shreds and Patches,” a Lovecraftian story set in Shakespeare’s London.

Also notable is the recent release of Textfyre’s first game, “Jack Toresal and the Secret Letter,” designed and written by Mike Gentry. “Jack Toresal” is a work of commercial IF, but a demo can be played for free online.

Build 5Z71 of Inform is now out for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch, plus command-line support for generic Linux and the XO laptop), with Solaris builds due to follow shortly.

Aaron Reed’s recently-released Blue Lacuna is the largest Inform game yet created. Aaron writes:

Blue Lacuna is among the largest text-based interactive stories ever produced, a full-length novel/adventure game that explores the themes and characters introduced in blueful. As a wayfarer, you will find new worlds to explore, complex characters to befriend or anger, choices to make that affect the fate of worlds, and a story whose ultimate meaning and resolution is defined by you.

You may have played interactive fiction or text adventures before… but you’ve never played one like this.

Update: In a substantial feat of literate programming, the entire massive source code of Blue Lacuna is now available — as a bound text.