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2004 IF Competition Games Available
An anonymous submitter writes "For the last ten years, the readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction have held a yearly interactive fiction competition. For fans of the old Infocom games as well as for newcomers to the genre, the competition is a chance to enjoy some of the best short adventure games available anywhere. And now, this year's entries are finally available for public testing. Visit IFcomp.org to download the games and interpreters for all of your favorite platforms. For the next six weeks, judges will play, score, and review." The website explains Windows and Mac installation pretty well; you'lll have to figure it out on your own for Linux but there is plenty of help available (i.e., "apt-cache search infocom" for Debian).
Great, now I can be eaten by a grue on multiple platforms. Grue screen of death anyone?
You find yourself in a dark cave surrounded by nerd-zombies.
>hit zombies with stick
Your attempt to ward of the nerd-zombies fails.
You should have drawn a picture of Kournikova on the wall to distract the zombies while you fled on your segway.
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Free iPods? Sure.
So, the interactive part is clicking on the download link, and the fiction part is actually finishing the download while the servers are being slashdotted! This is the most fun I've had all day!
Try actually thinking for yourself. It's quite refreshing.