Podcasts

Active IF Podcasts

Probably active. More or less.

• Eaten By a Grue - Infocom, text adventures, and interactive fiction. Kay Savetz and Carrington Vanston.
• Gold Microphone - Reviewing all the Infocom text adventures. Drew Cook and Callie Smith.
• The Interactive Fiction Club Podcast - Playing a game each month, alternating between classic and modern games. For those avoiding Spotify, it's also available on most podcast syndication sites, e.g. rephonic. Jonathan Meyer and Nick ?
• The Retro Adventurers - Explore classic text adventure games from legendary publishers and authors including Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Infocom, Scott Adams, and Interplay. A podcast for fans of GET LAMP, Eaten By a Grue, The Classic Adventurer, Renga In Blue, and Quest For Clues. Ben Collier, Jason Compton, and Dave Hawkins.

Possibly-related Podcasts

• The Short Game - covers video games under 10 hours. Usually does several IFComp episodes each year. Raygan Kelly, Shane Kelly, Nate Heininger, Laura Nash.
• Script Lock Episode 72: George Lockett and Mary Gooden - Script Lock is about narrative in games in general but they occasionally interview folks who have done IF: Ep. 57 has Duncan Fyfe and Jon Ingold, Ep. 40 has Laura Michet and Cat Manning, Ep. 15 has Rob Morgan and Emily Short.
• The Adventure Games Podcast covers basically only adventure games, but you could argue that they're sort of adjacent?

Inactive IF Podcasts

• Clash of the Type-Ins - Playing text adventures out loud, with their authors, with frequent digressions and occasional recriminations. Jenni Polodna and Ryan Veeder.
• Inklecast - Inkle Studios.
• Radio K - Adam Cadre discusses IF with various people who are generally familiar with the medium.
• Titans of Text - Interviewing MUD creators and interactive fiction people. Eric Oestrich and Danny Nissenfeld.
• Verb Your Enthusiasm - Covered IFComp 2019 and 2020. Ian Michael Waddell and ELizabeth Smyth.
• TEXTLASTIG - Podcast playing largely German IF?

Individual IF Episodes

• Ludology 217 - Interview with Andrew Plotkin.
• Stay Forever: Anchorhead - Interview with Michael Gentry: English interview after German intro.
• Stay Forever: Sherlock - Interview with Bob Bates
• Stay Forever: A Conversation About Text Adventures - Interview with Bob Bates.
• Stay Forever: Guido Henkel - This one's in German.
• - Relatively Prime: A Beauty Cold and Austere - Interview with Mike Spivey.
• The Video Game Generations Podcast supposedly has some IF episodes but I haven't gotten a chance to go through and link to specific ones...