Zarfian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Zarf + -ian
Adjective[edit]
Zarfian (comparative more Zarfian, superlative most Zarfian)
- Of or relating to Andrew Plotkin ("Zarf", born 1970), a writer and critic of interactive fiction.
- 1997, Kory Heath, “So Far - One Lousy Point”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
- This "game" is obviously an elaborate Rorschach test administered to the unsuspecting denizens of rec.*.if, whose reactions have no doubt been tabulated and incorporated into some sinister Zarfian plot - to what dark end, I shudder to imagine.
- 1998, Jake Wildstrom, “[COMP '98] Reviews (Feel free to hate me for them...)”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):
- Zarfian surrealism without Zarfian skill or subtlety. Beats reader over the head a bit with emotions.
- 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:
- The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.