{"id":752,"date":"2010-11-20T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joltcountry.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:53:13","slug":"the-essential-robb-sherwin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.joltcountry.com\/index.php\/the-essential-robb-sherwin","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently…<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of 2025, I am posting on BlueSky<\/a>, and Mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was on episode 299 of Topic Lords<\/a>, with Jim Stormdancer and Jenni Polodna.<\/p>\n

In 2025, in an attempt to write something each week, I started cataloging thoughts about video games using this tag<\/a>. In each article, I’m trying to say something meaningful about the game in question, or make jokes relating to the game.<\/p>\n

I have a computer game on Steam! It is called Cryptozookeeper<\/a>. It is a graphical text adventure somewhat about cryptozoology.<\/p>\n

I co-created another game with Mike Sousa called Jay Schilling’s Edge of Chaos<\/a>, also on Steam.<\/p>\n

And I am working on a CRPG \/ text adventure hybrid called Cyberganked. You can wishlist Cyberganked here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some articles I have written, and projects I have contributed to…<\/em><\/p>\n

Blog Posts\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote a memorial for my friend Randy McLellan<\/a> after he died in 2023.<\/p>\n

My father passed away<\/a> in 2021. My mother passed away<\/a> in 2024. I wrote their obituaries for the newspaper. I also wrote a blog post about them both at the links above.<\/p>\n

Interviews:<\/b><\/p>\n

With Sam Kabo Ashwell on Cryptozookeeper<\/a>. This sort of serves as the post-mortem for Cryptozookeeper.<\/p>\n

Gnome from Gnome’s Lair interviewed me<\/a> about Cryptozookeeper as well.<\/p>\n

With Clint Hoagland for FWONK<\/a> on Cryptozookeeper.<\/p>\n

Jason Dyer interviewed me, regarding Cryptozookeeper while it was still in development on Renga in Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Projects:<\/b><\/p>\n

I run the Polybius Home Page<\/a> for that old urban legend of an arcade game, Polybius.<\/p>\n

I am one of the hosts of the text adventure critical review site called Reviews From Trotting Krips. My articles are here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was the producer of The Don Rogers Show. You can download the old episodes here<\/a>. It is most easily described as a radio show where everyone is angrier for having been on by the end.<\/p>\n

Speaking of podcasts, I was a guest on this episode of You Don’t Know Flack<\/a>. We talked about text adventures, and some CRPGs too.<\/p>\n

I contributed an article to the IF Theory Reader<\/a>. (Link is to the electronic version.) My article is about writing NPC dialogue.<\/p>\n

I spent about a year documenting the one hundred video games I like most. It’s now horribly out of date. The thread starts here<\/a>, however, the first few pages consist of infighting and jibjab with my Internet comedy partner Pinback. The first review is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you like music, I am in a band called Beaver and this is probably the song that we did that is friendliest to newcomers. It’s called A-K-Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n

An album of photos I took of my cat Frobozz.<\/a><\/p>\n

Other:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote about my experiences at the PAX convention, in Boston for 2009 at SPAG<\/a>. I spoke with four of my text game colleagues before a roomful of people about text adventure games.<\/p>\n

In 2017, my cat Boggit was diagnosed with feline lymphoma. I wrote a series of blog posts about our journey. They are in chronological order starting here:<\/p>\n

All My Worst Days<\/a><\/p>\n

And If This World Runs Out of Lovers<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pinnacle Specimen of Feline-inity<\/a><\/p>\n

My Sweet, Sweet Boy<\/a><\/p>\n

As a text adventure fan, I wrote reviews<\/a> of the games nominated for Best Writing, of the 2012 XYZZY Awards.<\/p>\n

A review of the PC game Resident Evil 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was interviewed for the documentary Get Lamp by filmmaker Jason Scott. You can see me, fueled by about a quart of gin to ease the nervousness, in the HD trailer here<\/a>. I accidentally left that jersey on the trolley in the actual city of New Orleans, during the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

I can be contacted at robb.sherwin@gmail.com<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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