2004 Interactive Fiction Results

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

2004 Interactive Fiction Results

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @11:37AM 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.

3 of 132 comments (clear)

Play In Firefox by sbszine · 2004-11-30 11:40 · Score: 5, Informative

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

--
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
Half-Life 2 in ASCII! by Tackhead · 2004-11-30 12:16 · 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?
Re:MOD PARENT UP by ryanmfw · 2004-11-30 14:02 · Score: 5, Funny

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

--
Hurricane Ivan: A 17th century prison collapsed. All of the inmates escaped.