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Andrew Plotkin, also known as Zarf, is an important figure in the modern interactive fiction community. He was one of the earliest writers to use Graham Nelson's Inform development system, and one of the first since Infocom's heyday to explore the boundaries of interactive fiction as an artistic medium. Many later authors cite him as a primary influence. He has won many awards within the community, and is frequently interviewed for magazine articles about interactive fiction.

His most influential games are

A Change in the Weather (1995)
So Far (1996)
The Space Under the Window
(1997)
Spider and Web
(1998)
Hunter, in Darkness (1999)
Shade (2000)

Other Andrew Plotkin games include:

Lists and Lists (1996), an introductory course in the Scheme programming language
The Dreamhold (2004), a general IF tutorial game

He has also made major technical contributions to the medium, designing the Blorb archive format, the Glk I/O platform, and the Glulx virtual machine, and implementing Glulx Inform and several interactive fiction interpreters for the Macintosh and X.

He also wrote the former shareware puzzle game System's Twilight. Plotkin appears as a character in Being Andrew Plotkin, an interactive fiction game by J. Robinson Wheeler somewhat based on the film Being John Malkovich.

While a student at Carnegie Mellon University, Zarf was one of the early members of the Carnegie Mellon KGB. He created the organization's signature Capture the Flag with Stuff game, which is now played by several hundred students every semester.

He has also made contributions to the Icehouse community, both in designing the game and the creation of several custom sets of pieces.

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