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2004 IF Competition Games Available

Posted by michael on from the use-laser-on-floyd dept.

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).

6 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. Beware of Grues by RevJim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now I can be eaten by a grue on multiple platforms. Grue screen of death anyone?

  2. MUD? by t7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
     >

    Free iPods? Sure.

  3. Text games are very much alive by ChicagoDave · · Score: 5, Informative

    I would just like to note that the IF community is still going strong, still maintaining its IF-specific programming platforms (see TADS 3, Glulx, Inform, Hugo), and have even published books (Inform Designer's Manual, Inform Beginner's Guide, Twisty Little Passages) and has a theoretical analysis book in the works for future publishing. If you're looking for a game, stop by http://www.wurb.com/if/ or check out the archive at http://www.ifarchive.org/ where all of the free games and interpreters are there to be downloaded for free. Visit rec.arts.int.fiction or rec.games.int.fiction if you want to discuss building or playing games and if you're really in need of an IF fix, stop by the ifMUD at ifmud.port4000.com:4000.

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  4. Interactive Fiction by NiTr|c · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Interactive Fiction by eegad · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh! You didn't find the secret chest with the download mirror. Unfortunately, if you've already saved you're going to have to start all over from the beginning.

  5. Re:Adventure games committed suicide by Dmala · · Score: 5, Informative

    For what it's worth, by the standards of modern IF, all of these things would be considered design flaws. The games that win the annual Comp, especially, tend to play fair and usually have puzzles that are both logical and well integrated into the storyline.