Rowan Lipkovits

Intro

In addition to sporadically covering IF at MobyGames, Rowan has written about games for The Cultural Gutter and Memory Insufficient and contributes to Turn To Page 4, a hyperfiction conversion blog.

Note: Rowan's nickname on IFWiki is Pseudo Intellectual and on the IntFiction forums he goes by UnwashedMass.

Author Credits

• Mad Cow Man and Deep Fried Beef Fat Boy (27-Aug-1997; AGT).
• Kithe #14 (01-Nov-1997; AGT).
• Guide of Identification of Musical the Instruments of Frobnia (24-Feb-2012; Twine) for the Pirate Kart V: The 2012-in-one Glorious Developers Konference Kollection!!! (Mar 2012) (as A_Gamebook_Fan).
• With A Little Help From Our Friends (12-Oct-2013; a live musical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure performed with The Creaking Planks for the Accordion Noir Festival).
• 50 Shades of Jilting (13-May-2014; Inform 7) for ShuffleComp 2014 (as Lankly Lockers)
• Cragne Manor (01-Oct-2018; Glulx)

Porting Credits

• Ported Fortress, Snowballs, Tangerine, Avocado, A Flight To Remember, Fight or Flight?, You Are A Detective, Love's Fiery Imbroglio, A Day At The Beach, A Dark And Deadly Path, A Story As You Like It (original English translation from French), Choose Yer Aventure: Up In Space, Space Horror I: Prey for Your Enemies, Life on Beal Street, Life on GUE Street, Dragon Warrior Text Adventure, Choose Your Own Three Hour Adventure, Kingdom of Loathing the Home Game Part 2: Electric Boogaloo, Cloak of Darkness, The Great Machine: A Fragment, La Caja (original English translation from Spanish), Max the Computer, The Letter - Episode 1, FutureGame (tm), Choose Your Own Romance, Let's All Ruin Dad's Morning, A Dark and Stormy Entry, The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil, Self Explanatory, The Golden Skull, Kingdom of Loathing The Home Game 3: Past As Prologue, Nogard, Kingdom of Loathing The Home Game 4: And Now, Something Else Entirely and Baud Dudes CYOA to online hyperlinked HTML.

Testing Credits

• Everybody Dies (Jim Munroe; 01-Oct-2008; Glulx).
• Roofed (Jim Munroe; 02-Feb-2010; Z-code 8).
• An Earth Turning Slowly (Mæja Stefánsson; 13-May-2014; Undum).
• It's Killing Time (Eric Bonholtzer; 21-May-2015; Choicescript).
• Saga of the North Wind (Tom Knights; 17-Nov-2016; Choicescript).
• The Daring Mermaid Expedition (Andrea Phillips; 12-Feb-2016; Choicescript).
• Congresswolf (Ellen Cooper; 27-Oct-2016; Choicescript).
• A Midsummer Night's Choice (Kreg Segall; 24-Aug-2016; Choicescript).
• Welcome to Moreytown (S. Andrew Swann; 05-May-2017; Choicescript).
• Avatar of the Wolf (Bendi Barrett; 21-Jun-2017; Choicescript).
• Trials of the Thief-Taker (Joey Donald Jones; 09-Aug-2017; Choicescript).
• Choice of the Cat (Jordan Reyne; 28-Sept-2017; Choicescript).
• The Superlatives: Aetherfall (Alice Ripley; 18-Oct-2017; Choicescript).
• T-Rex Time Machine (Rosemary Claire Smith; 07-Dec-2017; Choicescript).

Review and Article Credits

• The Modem Squeals of a Guilded Youth - Rowan Lipkovits talks to Jim Munroe in SPAG Issue 61, January 2, 2013.
• Valentine to Graham Nelson celebrating Inform 7 in SPAG Issue 61.5, February 2, 2015.
• Choose Your Own Path: Taking CYOA IRL with the Active Fiction Project in SPAG Issue 62, May 4, 2015.
• Rowan Lipkovits' reviews at MobyGames.

Other Credits

• The Best Defense to the Nimzovich-Larsen Attack is a Surprise Underhand Toss of Two-Week-Old Scat and a Quick Diddle: Life Lessons I Acquired Mentoring Chimpanzees in the Ancient Game of Chess. (13-Mar-2005). StupidTitleComp: Eighth runner-up.
• Contributed cover artwork to Darkness in Daytime, Monkey Business, and Olivia's Orphanorium for the Cover Stories minicomp (May 2012).
• Contributed song selections and author pseudonyms to games in ShuffleComp (May 2014).

Links

• It's a lonely old world, you've ultimately decided - Rowan's blog.
• Rowan Lipkovits (developer page) at MobyGames.
• Pseudo_Intellectual (user page) at MobyGames.