Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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This talk is from the 2016 Roguelike Celebration: roguelike.club/event.html, re-uploaded 2021.

Beyond the Mad Lib (But Just Barely): an oral history of the ways in which Kingdom of Loathing uses procedural text generation for flavor and humor.

Zack Johnson is the creator of the long-running web MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing and its upcoming cowboy spinoff West of Loathing. If prompted (or intoxicated) he will speak at length on the virtues of HTML frames.