Drew Cook
From IFWiki
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)
- Marbles, D, and the Sinister Spotlight (2025; Glulx). Spring Thing 2025
- Portrait with Wolf (2025; Glulx). Spring Thing 2025.
Review and Article Credits
- An Interview with Autumn Chen, The Rosebush, July 2023
- Reviews at IFDB
- Gold Machine: Games as Text, Text as Games, a literary analysis project concerned with 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
- Trinity: Is Historicity an Aesthetic Virtue?
- Top Expert, on other topics such as Drew's own works (2023–). Notable series and articles:
- Let's Make IF, a step-by-step series about creating with Inform 7.
- Let's Test IF #1: Being a Playtester
- Let's Test IF #2: Playtesting Your Game
Other Credits
- The Gold Microphone podcast.
- GOLMAC plays 'Spellbreaker'
Links
Interviews
- Small Talk... with Drew Cook - What's New in IF?, issue 18, 17-Aug-2024.