I used to be an Indie Developer, responsible (as a coder) for the infamous "The Secret of Middle City" (point and click graphic adventure) by the late Stefano Buonocore, and art director, designer and coder of "Cybersphere" (icon-driven graphic adventure).
Those were graphical games, available at https://www.gdg-entertainment.it/, while the IFs are here on itch.io .
Nowadays, I mostly deal with first love: adventure games, now called IF (interactive fiction).
Fond of text adventures since I played Scott Adam's "The Count" on a borrowed VIC-20 at the age of 12, I now code using the Inform 6 authoring language with the PunyInform library.
Warning: These are all puzzle-based text adventures. If you just want to sit down and read a story, these aren't for you. If you enjoy exploration and solving puzzles, you will enjoy these games.
After coding a few games as a solo project, in August 2024, I contacted Mr. Bonaventura Di Bello and asked for permission to translate his 35-year-old games to English and bring them up to date for a modern audience. BDB was thrilled to thi...