The Visible Witness is now available to all

September is upon us, and with it that least regarded of the early Infocom games: The Witness. As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with the open-source MIT license. In addition, I've posted high-resolution scans of the original folio manual and feelies. I wouldn't say The Witness is unfairly disregarded. It's Infocom's second mystery game, a followup to Deadline. Deadline was groundbreaking interactive narrative; it presented a huge New England mansion and a cast of dynamic characters with their own plans and schedules. (Until you, the detective, barge in to upend them.) The Witness was... more of the same, except with fewer characters, a smaller house, and a shallower mystery to solve. The Witness is mostly remembered in the IF community for three things: First, it's the Infocom game which can be solved in the fewest commands. People got competitive about finding minimal paths to the winning outcome. (See this comment by eriktorbjorn, for example.) Second, the…