The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/2Flow2 on 2025-01-20 11:11:44.
Just wanted to highlight this preservation effort that needs some additional volunteers posted by someone over here.
The dashingdon.com website will be shutting down at the end of this month, along with its 1860 public interactive fiction games. A group effort is being organized to preserve the games before they all go "poof".
In terms of "why should we care", it has been described as:
Dashingdon is kind of a vast clearing house for people who want to get their feet wet experimenting with choicescript but don't necessarily intend on developing their prototype into a commercial product at this time. Consequently it's the vast iceberg beneath the tip of commercial choicescript products we've been documenting since 2010
While I would rate them as all worth documenting as a hotbed of emerging designer talent in the vein of the zzt scene and Doom wad maker community, its a massive undertaking and no coincidence that they had never documented up to now
(I also posted this on r/GamePreservationists over here, so if that's not allowed just let me know and I can edit or whatever is needed. ๐)