Interactive Fiction Competition Opens

Posted by michael on Saturday April 17, 2004 @01:45PM from the kill-floyd-with-laser dept.

Sargent1 writes "The 2004 Interactive Fiction Competition has opened for business. The yearly competition, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, is for short pieces of interactive fiction. At this point IF authors can sign up to take part in the competition, and everyone can learn how to judge the games when they are released in October of this year. If you're not sure what interactive fiction is, take a look at Slashdot's recent review of Twisty Little Passages, a book on interactive fiction from Adventure (and earlier antecedents) to present day."

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Program in Martian ??? by vinit79 · 2004-04-17 14:02 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The website says For this reason, the use of a language designed specifically for IF, such as TADS, Hugo, Inform, or ADRIFT, is recommended. Who in the world uses that ??

The language websites for Hugo, Inform etc explain that they have been designed specifically for text based adventure games.... Talk about specialization !!!!

Any way I have registered and am going to do plain old C ( okay, okay C++)