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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. Play In Firefox by sbszine · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a Firefox extension called Gnusto that lets you play these games from your browser. Have fun : )

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    1. Re:Play In Firefox by Peter+S.+Housel · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes, there's Malyon, a z-machine interpreter written in Emacs Lisp.

  2. Link to the original article by the_mighty_$ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the article announcing the beginning of the competition. May be interesting.

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  3. Blue Chairs should have won by skybrian · · Score: 4, Informative

    I played the first two when the winners were announced (because I was too lazy to judge this year).

    Luminous Horizon is a well-polished game, but it's the third part of a superhero series and the story is nothing new. The most interesting part about it is the way it handles switching characters and hints.

    Blue Chairs is far more interesting. It's hard to summarize, but it starts out with a drug trip at a party that turns into a dream sequence. Even if that's not your thing, it allows for some amazing writing. Highly recommended.

  4. Dang, I totally spaced the deadline (months ago) by tenzig_112 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, crap.

    Anyway, here's Eric the Power-Mad Dongeon Master,
    a z-code game that follows a night of D&D gone awry.

    There are a few bugs, I guess, but folks say it's fun to play.