25 days ago
Andy Baio : Frotz interpreter added to iPhone App Store as free download - with downloadable games from interactive fiction repositories
deusx : Frotz Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade - "Interactive Fiction (IF) fans will be pleased to hear that Craig Smith has released Frotz [App Store] for the iPhone through the iTunes App Store as a free download."
# copy
2 month ago
deusx : Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer - "by Tim Hartnell, published 1983"
# copy
3 month ago
deusx : The Prose Medium and IF « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction - "Words in interactive fiction individually carry more weight than they carry in static prose, if only because of the amount of attention we demand the player give to each one."
# copy3 month ago
deusx : Introducing Parchment at Toolness - "The more I thought about it, the more the web actually seemed like an ideal place for interactive fiction to be experienced, rather than merely a more convenient one. "
# copy3 month ago
deusx : About Flaxo - "Flaxo is a Flash-based interpreter for Interactive Fiction (IF) games compiled for Infocom's Z-Machine, versions 1-8 (except version 6)."
# copy
3 month ago
deusx : parchment - Google Code - "Parchment aims to be a web-based Z-machine interpreter that uses open web technologies to provide the same level of functionality that desktop-based Z-machines offer, with added conveniences that only the web can provide. "
Andy Baio : Parchment, a pure Javascript Z-machine interpreter - try some games from the IF Archive [via]
# copy3 month ago
deusx : Parchment - "Below is a list of z-code based interactive fiction titles made available by The Interactive Fiction Archive. You can click on an entry to start playing it."
# copy
3 month ago
deusx : Evil Brain Jono's Natural Log - "Atul has written an awesome thing! It's a Javascript wrapper for the Z-machine -- the engine behind all the Infocom text-adventure games."
# copy
4 month ago
deusx : Conversation « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction - "Conversation is one of the most challenging things to code in interactive fiction, and also one of the most widely discussed."
# copy
4 month ago
deusx : Book and Volume by Nick Montfort - "On the plus side the growing realization that something odd is definitely going on is well done."
# copy
5 month ago
Andy Baio : Guncho, a multiplayer IF system based on Inform 7 - upload Inform code to create realms browsable by multiple people at once
deusx : Guncho - Good News, Everyone! - rec.arts.int-fiction | Google Groups - "I'd like you to meet Guncho, a system for writing online multiplayer games with the tools, parsers, and libraries you already know from single-player interactive fiction."
# copy
8 month ago
deusx : CellarDoor - "Thanks for trying CellarDoor, a new version in a long lineage of Interactive Fiction interpreters for PalmOS devices."
# copy
10 month ago
deusx : Results of the 13th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition - "Welcome to IFComp 2007, the competition for short text adventures."
# copy10 month ago
deusx : SuicideGirls > News > Geek > Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: A Mind Forever Voyaging - "I think of my time as a valuable currency that must be earned by anyone who wants me to exchange it for whatever they’re selling."
# copy
10 month ago
Andy Baio : Pac-Txt - Pac-Man meets Zork [via]
deusx : Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork - "Well, I had just got back from a party where the concept of a Pac-Man + Zork hybrid came up as a joke."
Rod Begbie : Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork - Pac-man as interactive fiction. > eat You have eaten another glowing dot! [via] #
# copy
12 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Frontalot Video Released (Completely) - "When it was made, Frontalot and I had a handshake deal: I shot it for him, he could release it when he wanted, and I could release it on the final GET LAMP project down the line. Well, today he released it on his website."
# copy
13 month ago
deusx : Adventure: Crowther's original source code found; photos from inside the real Colossal Cave - rec.arts.int-fiction | Google Groups - "Unbelievable !!! a true Relic of the history of gaming ! "
# copy
14 month ago
Andy Baio : Poetry written in Inform 7 - the interactive fiction language is particularly well-suited to poetry and prose; more here
deusx : N. B. Horvath's Blog: Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge - "In Comments, post a poem that compiles to a working Inform 7 game." Better than Perl poetry?
# copy
17 month ago
deusx : Brass Lantern: Write a Text Adventure With Inform 7 - "In this tutorial we'll use I7 to write a simple game. By the time we're done, you'll have the beginnings of your very own masterpiece."
# copy
17 month ago
deusx : XYZZY interactive fiction awards dispensed - Joystiq - "The annual XYZZY awards have been announced, flaunting the gobs of creativity still flowing from the interactive fiction community."
# copy
27 month ago
deusx : ONLamp.com: Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7 - "The first principle of Inform 7 is that interactive fiction is a literary pursuit; IF works are more like short novels than games. "
# copy
27 month ago
Andy Baio : Zasterisk, Zork on Asterisk - voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games over the phone
deusx : zasterisk - a telephony/text adventure bridge for Asterisk and Infocom games - "Zasterisk implements a Rezrov ZIO object, allowing a user to communicate with a Z-Machine via telephony devices."
# copy
28 month ago
deusx : Spatterlight : Interactive Fiction for Mac OS X - "Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application that can play several different types of interactive fiction game files."
# copy
28 month ago
Andy Baio : Emily Short's observations on using Inform 7 - writing interactive fiction with natural language
deusx : Some Observations on Using Inform 7 - "Several people have asked me to discuss in depth why I find I7 more powerful than I6 for complex projects."
# copy
