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2004 Interactive Fiction Results

Posted by Zonk on from the go-W-young-man dept.

silent_knight writes "Early in October, the 2004 Interactive Fiction competition began. The results are now in! Be sure to check out some of this year's best entries: Luminous Horizon, Blue Chairs, All Things Devours, Magocracy, and Murder at the Aero Club. All entries (and interpreters) can be downloaded together for Windows and the Mac from the download page." As mentioned in the previous story, Linux support for these games is also easily available.

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  1. Somebody has to.... by D4MO · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Korea, interactive fiction is for old people.

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    Rocket science is easy. Neurosurgery, now *that's* difficult.
    1. Re:Somebody has to.... by uhlume · · Score: 2, Funny


      "In Soviet Russia, Korean old people are for YOU!"


      God, I feel dirty, now.

      --
      SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM
  2. Half-Life 2 in ASCII! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    You are in a little white house near a forest on the outer edge of the Great Underground Empire. There is a computer on the table here.

    > BUY HALF-LIFE 2
    You cannot buy Half-Life 2. You can only rent it.

    > RENT HALF-LIFE 2
    You download a Steam client and supply your FrobozzcoCard number.

    > PLAY HALF-LIFE 2
    You cannot play Half-Life 2 on this computer without signing into your Steam account.

    > LOGIN STEAM
    You punch in your account information, but because you're in a little white house in the middle of nowhere, the computer's modem dials up the nearest internet provider and the game begins to download.

    > WAIT
    Time passes...
    4.9 gigabytes remaining. (5.4k/s)

    > WAIT
    Time passes...
    4.9 gigabytes remaining. (5.4k/s)
    Your blood pressure just went up. (Oh, wait, this only *feels* like you're stuck in "Bureaucracy". Your blood pressure is actually just fine.)

    > WAIT
    Time passes...
    4.9 gigabytes remaining. (5.4k/s)
    Your UPS battery is fading.

    > TURN OFF MONITOR
    You turn off the monitor to conserve power. The only light is the "RD" light on the modem - a solid, but feeble, red. Clever.

    > WAIT
    Time passes...
    You really think you can press "W" more often than I can tell you that Time Passes? I'm the computer here, remember? But have it your way - we'll skip a the next nine days.

    > WAIT
    Time passes...
    It is dark. You are still unlikely to be eaten by a headcrab.
    Grues, however, are another story

    *** You have died ***

    Your score is 0/150 (Victim of improperly-conducted usability study). Would you like to try again?

  3. The Winners are all leaving. by robdeadtech · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad almost all the winners have announced their leaving the Cabinet.

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    Heil Sig! -Rob
  4. Coming soon - Slashdot Adventure by Magickcat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Slashdot
    You are on the Internet. A web page is full of text before you. It is Slashdot. The page is a putrid green and there are advertisments for Suicide Girls and nerd toys. Exits are Back, forward and home.
    There is a menu here.

    You hear a computer fan in the distance.

    >Go to Journal.
    No, I'm afraid you can't do that now. Perhaps later.

    >Chat up chicks.
    Surely you are joking.

    >Read Slashdot.
    An hour or two passes. You have achieved nothing.

    You hear a computer fan in the distance.

    >Post on Slashdot.
    You manage to post +5 INSIGHTFUL about SCO and how what you'd like to do to Darl McBride. An angry and bored lone gunman moderates you 30% OVERRATED.
    You manage to post +4 INSIGHTFUL.

    You hear a computer fan in the distance.
    You are hungry.

    >Post on Slashdot.
    You manage to post +3 INSIGHTFUL about your ideas about American Foreign Policy. A disguntled group of Neo-Facists, Trolls, and lowbrows have read your post. You manage to post +1 TROLL. Your karma is terrible. You loose all your friends who thought you really were a Bush supporter.

    You hear a computer fan in the distance.
    You are hungry.

    >Get back to unemploymed life
    Please put on your tin hat. Your final karma is BAD. CowboyNeal thinks you suck.
    Goodbye.

    Do you want to (L)Load a Saved game, (R)Restart or (Q)Quit.
    >
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    Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.

    1. Re:Coming soon - Slashdot Adventure by lxs · · Score: 2, Funny

      >read slashdot

      You're trapped in a labyrinth of duplicate stories all alike.
      You hear CmdrTaco chuckling in the distance.

      >read slashdot

      You're trapped in a maze of silly poll options all different.You feel slightly annoyed by the missing options.
      A gaggle of trolls cowers away from your superior karma.

      >whack troll.

      A bright flash of light, a hollow laugh... One more GNAA member banished to -1.

      >smoke crack

      Aaahh. The joys of having mod-points...

  5. MOD PARENT UP by xgamer04 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "In Soviet Russia, Korean old people are for YOU!"

    Hopefully, the cross-reference will create a memetic explosion that takes out both cliches at the same time.

    Hopefully.

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    When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
    1. Re:MOD PARENT UP by ryanmfw · · Score: 5, Funny

      These things never die man, they just grow old and read email in Korea.

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      Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.
  6. Great... by flatface · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is just fucking great. 20 minutes after I install a GeForce FX 5950 I'm playing Interactive Fiction. Thanks, Slashdot.