source. Plotkin was also featured prominently in the 2010 interactive fiction documentary, GET LAMP. On June 24, 2014, Plotkin released the source code for several of his games for educational purposes. Other work He 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 based in part on the film Being John Malkovich. While a student at Carnegie Mellon University, Plotkin 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. In 1997, Plotkin developed a rethemed version of Dmitry Davidoff's social game Mafia, replacing the "mafia" characters with werewolves. Plotkin's version of the game subsequently became popular at universities and conferences in the United States, with a set of cards being produced by Looney Labs. He has also made contributions to the Icehouse community, both in designing the game Branches & Twigs & Thorns, and the creation of several custom sets of pieces. During 2006 he was involved in the open source on-line game platform Volity and has created, or assisted in the creation of, on-line versions of the pyramid game Treehouse and other Looney Labs titles to showcase the platform. In 2019 he created and co-chaired with Adri Mills NarraScope, a games conference focusing on interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction. References External links Andrew Plotkin's homepage Andrew Plotkin on the IFWiki Andrew Plotkin on the IcehouseGames.org wiki NarraScope Carnegie Mellon University alumni American video game programmers Interactive fiction writers Usenet people 1970 births Living people People from Rockville, Maryland Writers from Syracuse, New York