OPEN MAILBOX June 2026

Your monthly classic text adventuring news update delivered this month by Jason, Nick, and Tim. The top stories are  game contests still open for players votes at time of publication! Don't delay, listen and click today!

Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2026

https://itch.io/jam/talp2026

https://gameobserver.com/6th-annual-game-jam-inspires-next-generation-of-developers-to-keep-text-adventures-alive/

Iron CHiF Season One Episode Two: ZIL

https://intfiction.org/t/iron-chif-season-one-episode-2-lancelot-vs-someone2-using-zil/79983

Inform 6 benchmarking

https://discord.com/channels/830344544679493644/830344548315037739/1501871149288525844

PunyInform v6.6

https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases/tag/v6_6

Visible Zorker update: Deadline for backers, Zork III goes public

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/visible-zork-3

https://archive.org/details/Suspended_Map_Recreation

https://archive.org/details/Infocom_Starcross_Chart_Recreation

Dialog 1b/01

https://intfiction.org/t/dialog-1b-01-library-1-2-0-a-machine-1-0-0-is-released/80151

https://github.com/Dialog-IF/dialog/releases/tag/release-1b01-1.2.0

War of the Worlds for Commodore 64

https://michel-molenaar.itch.io/war-of-the-worlds-c64

Modern PAW environment

https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/comments/1tgyyj2/show_if_a_modern_jsonbased_paws_engine/ 

https://carlosparamio.itch.io/paws-ai

Text Adventure Studio (formerly Apple II Adventure Studio)

https://www.reddit.com/r/textadventures/comments/1t3yypi/apple_ii_adventure_studio_is_now_officially_text/

https://textadventurestudio.com/ 

The Forgotten Nightmare release

https://intfiction.org/t/the-forgotten-nightmare-series-platform-expansion-release/80323/5

Voyage of the Beano for Spectrum Next

https://qladventures.itch.io/the-voyage-of-the-beano

Spring Thing 2026 recognizes C64 Latinorum, other neo-retro titles

https://www.springthing.net/2026/play.html

2026 IntroComp kickoff

https://mastodon.social/@Feneric/116636591715718306