Over the past month, I’ve immersed myself in a personal project that was meant to be a game, an experiment, and maybe a bit of a protest: WordGuardian.

A site for playing with absurd, real, and invented definitions. But also a window into the semantic richness of Wikidata and a cold reality check about building an indie website in 2025.

It’s a language for writing IF that compiles to Z-machine and it’s inspired by Inform 7 (one of the best languages of all time)… and Prolog! This sounds awesome!

Here’s the intro.

I have been semi-offline for over a month and that’s gonna continue but I had scheduled to do a deep dive today and I’m glad I did because on Darren’s gemlog I found a link to this.