Interactive Fiction Competition 2006 Voting Begins

An anonymous reader writes "Voting for the 12th annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IF Comp) has begun! Standout entries this year include a new game from acclaimed writer (and previous IF Comp winner) Emily Short, an interactive moebius strip, the requisite bible game(s) and a game about making games. A full list is available on the IF Comp website, and eToychest kicks off their IF Comp coverage with an interview with Stephen Granade, the competition organizer."

Comments

I just submitted my interactive fiction.

[Anonymous Coward]

>Turn T-block clockwise.
The T-block falls one space. Below is a red square, two blue squares, another red square, and a green square. You are directly above the red square on the right hand side.
>Down.
You have completed a row! +1 points.
There is a blue square falling here.

LOOK

[Tackhead]

> LOOK

Nothing to see here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> WAIT
Time passes...

> RELOAD
There is a Diebold thread here. You do not have a sword with which to attack the trolls.

> DOWNLOAD THE COMPETITION GAMES
The site serving the software is in the process of being Slashdotted.

> FUCK!
Such language in a high-class establishment like this! (What do you think this is, Leather Goddesses of Phobos?)

> QUIT
Your score would be 0 (Total of 400 points), in 6 moves.
This score gives you the rank of CmdrTaco.
***END OF SESSION***

Re:LOOK

[bcat24]

> enter slashdot
You enter Slashdot.

There is an article about interactive fiction here.

> read article
An anonymous coward writes to tell about voting for the 12th annual IF Comp beginning.

> write comment
What kind of comment would you like to write?

> a parody of IF
There is already a comment paroding IF here.

> damn it
What a loony!

> write really crappy comment
Written.

The moderatators have come!
They mod you down!
They mod you down again!
They mod you down again!

*** You have died ***

Your score is -1 (total of 500 points), in 6 moves.
This gives you the rank of Average Slashdotter.

How can I not post it?

[pNutz]

from the Escapist:

Porch

This is the weathered front porch of the house. A closed screen door leads westward into the house. You can leave the porch to the east.

Mr. Martin is standing in the doorway.

There is a particularly yummy bone here.

> BARK
"What! Timmy's fallen down and broken his leg! Where?"

> BARK
"In the old Johnson barn! Let's go!"

- a joke contest example from the Winter 1986 Infocom newsletter, "The New Zork Times"

Re:What's wrong with the IF community?

[Abcd1234]

With the IF subgenre being probably the best suited to implement with hyperlinks

WTF are you talking about? IF != choose your own adventure books. They typically have complex user interactions involving manipulation of in-game objects using what is, in many cases, a remarkably complex grammar. To suggest this can be done with simple hyperlinks betrays a deep misunderstanding of the nature of IF.

Please don't skew the voting....

[Futaba-chan]

Standout entries this year include a new game from acclaimed writer (and previous IF Comp winner) Emily Short, an interactive moebius strip, the requisite bible game(s) and a game about making games.
Um, it's considered bad form to single out specific games for discussion before the end of the voting period. Especially on a widely read site like Slashdot. Please don't do this next year.