Key & Compass

👉 Site Index

• Interactive Fiction: Overview. My Games. Sites. People. Events. Companies.
• Personal: About me, David Welbourn; Stuff I've made; Where I am on the web.
• Programming and Web Markup: General. Images. Perl. Web Markup. Uncategorized.
• Miscellanea: Games. Humour. Literature. Local to Kitchener-Waterloo. Reference. Webcomics.

👨🏻 About Me, David Welbourn

• My Résumé in Word or text only.
• Theatre/Acting Summary.
• Photos of me.

💼 Stuff I've Made

• My IF games.
• My IF reviews.
• My IF walkthroughs.
• My Cosmic Encounter Aliens.
• My Prose & Other Writings.

🌐 Where I am on the web

Current, more active links

• dswxyz at BlueSky.
• David Welbourn at IFDB, the Interactive Fiction Database.
• DavidW at ifMud, the Interactive Fiction MUD.
• David Welbourn and User:Dswxyz at IFWiki, the Interactive Fiction wiki.
• David Welbourn at Ko-fi, where you can buy me a coffee. Thank you!
• dswxyz at mastodon.social. I'm trying to use Mastodon more often, but I still find it difficult to find my communities there.
• David Welbourn at Patreon, where I accept funding support for my IF walkthroughs. Thank you to all my wonderful patrons!
• davidwelbourn at WordPress. This is my main blog, but I acknowledge that I don't post there as often as I should.
• dswxyz at X (formerly known as Twitter).

Static or still relevant links

• David Welbourn at CASA, the Classic Adventures Solution Archive. I'm listed there, and I do have an account, and I have posted to the CASA forum at least once!
• davidw69105 at Discord. I keep forgetting that Discord exists, but I do have an account there and I sometimes remember it.
• David Welbourn at Facebook. I'm not really on Facebook that often these days, maybe just once a month or so, normally, unless I need to contact people there.
• David Welbourn at GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary. See also my interview clips at the Internet Archive.
• David Welbourn at ifwizz, a German interactive fiction database. I don't update this one. I'm just listed there.
• David Welbourn at Instagram. I'm mostly a passive reader on Instagram. I don't post much there.
• David Welbourn at intfiction.org, the Interactive Fiction Community Forum. Surprisingly, I don't post much here either, but sometimes.

Older, less active, inactive, or less relevant links

• dswxyz at the ADRIFT Forum for discussing the ADRIFT Interactive Fiction Toolkit.
• David Welbourn (archive page) at Baf's Guide to the IF Archive, which has been down for several years now.
• dswxyz at Echo Bazaar, an online game I once played for a few months.
• dswxyz at euphoria.io/room/if, a chat space. I don't even know what euphoria's status is now.
• David Welbourn at FASS, an amateur theatre group at the University of Waterloo.
• David Welbourn at Google+.
• David Welbourn at IF Rating, all but forgotten now. See IFDB instead.
• David Welbourn at IFRO, the Interactive Fiction Review Organization.
• David Welbourn at IMDb, the Internet Movie Database.
• Squeaky at Improbable Island, an online game.
• Mr_SqueakyOs at The Kingdom of Loathing, an online game I once played for a few years.
• dswxyz at lernu! where one can learn Esperanto.
• dswxyz at LiveJournal, which I hardly used at all.
• dswxyz at The Master Theorem, a puzzling website that I briefly visited.
• dswxyz at the Quest forum. Quest is yet another system for making text adventures.
• davidwelbourn1 at Skype, which I mostly haven't used yet, and might never get back to at this rate.
• MrSqueakyDave at the Sluggy Forum which I still read but rarely comment on now.
• My Walkthroughs board at Trello. I stopped using Trello during an unfortunate time when I had extremely poor internet access and couldn't reach Trello as often as I needed to. I transitioned to another way of tracking the needed info locally.
• User:Pheeboris at Wikipedia. I use this account infrequently to recategorize some pages.
• dswxyz at the Zynga Community Forums, back when I played Indiana Jones Adventure World on Facebook.