Other Work
He also 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 somewhat based on the film Being John Malkovich.
While a student at Carnegie Mellon University, Zarf 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 Dimitry 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.
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