Drew Cook

Drew Cook is an interactive fiction author and critic. He is alternately known as "kamineko," "golmac," and "gold machine."

He is the primary author of Gold Machine, a blog dedicated to literary readings of Infocom games. Drew Cook's Inform 7 game Repeat the Ending was awarded a "Best in Show" ribbon at the 2023 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction.

Author Credits

• Repeat the Ending (2023; Glulx). Spring Thing 2023. Best In Show (tie)

Review and Article Credits

• An Interview with Autumn Chen, The Rosebush, July 2023
• Reviews at IFDB
• Gold Machine: Games as Text, Text as Games, mainly about the Infocom games. Notable Gold Machine articles:
  • Deposition, Acquisition, and Deferred Satisfaction in Zork I
  • Deadline's Connecticut of the Mind: Nostalgia, Privilege, and Mental Illness
  • Never Trust a Lady Mechanic: Final Thoughts on the Witness
  • Are You Not Entertained: Last Thoughts on Infidel
  • Agency, Empathy, and the Call of the Other in AMFV
  • And in the End: Spellbreaker
  • About the Time I Made an Inform 7 Game
• Top Expert, on other topics such as Drew's own works (2023–).
  • Let's Make IF, a step-by-step series about creating with Inform 7.

Other Credits

• The Gold Microphone podcast.

Links

Interviews

• Small Talk... with Drew Cook - What's New in IF?, issue 18, 17-Aug-2024.