My IF Miscellany • My IF Games • My IF in Esperanto • My IFMud Stuff
My IF Miscellany
- My Solutions/Walkthroughs. (I'm doing a little reorganizing of the indexes; please excuse the mess.)
- My reviews for the Annual IF Competition, years 2002, 2004, and 2005.
- IF Language Comparison – A bold, unfinished attempt to compare Alan, Hugo, Inform, TADS 2 and TADS 3 on a feature-by-feature basis.
- Responses to XYZZY and PLUGH.
- Andrew Plotkin’s Cruelty Scale.
- Gostakian to English Dictionary - an attempt to translate the language used in The Gostak. CAUTION: CONTAINS SPOILERS.
- Out of the Study – What if all the items in the room were visible? CAUTION: CONTAINS SPOILERS for Out of the Study.
- The Name Game – A list of IF games with related names.
- The Four-Eyed Guide to TADS 3 – I've just started this in Sept. 2004, so it's Very incomplete.
My Interactive Fiction Games
(All games were written in Inform)
![[A speedIF O entry]](./img/speedo.jpg)
“A speedIF O entry” My first speed-if game. Get Neil Gaiman to sign your comic book collection. Very short; one room. Download speedo.zip. |
![[Squeaky on the Moon]](./img/squeaky.jpg)
“Squeaky on the Moon”
My silly entry in the Pi-Theta-Alpha-Parallax speed-if. As Alvin the Chipmunk, rescue your landlady’s cat. Very short; four and ½ rooms. Download squeaky.zip. |
![[Cheeseshop]](./img/cheeseshop.jpg)
“Cheeseshop” An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. Short; two rooms. Download cheeseshop.zip (Inform version) or download cheeseshop.t3 (TADS 3 version). |
![[Krakatoa Tuna Melt]](./img/krakatoa.jpg)
“Krakatoa Tuna Melt” An interactive cookin' disaster. Written far too slowly for SpeedIF 10−9. Twelve locations. Download krakatoa.zip. |
![[The Angel Curse]](./img/angelcurse.jpg)
“The Angel Curse” An interactive something for SpeedIF 19. Five locations. Download angelcurse.zip. |
![[Yay Games]](./img/yaygames.jpg)
“Yay Games” Relive the 2003 Xyzzy Awards ceremony. Written for SpeedIF Century. One location. Download yaygames.zip. |
![[The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread]](./img/fdb.jpg)
“The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread” This is the beginning of an unusual fairy tale. Written for IntroComp 2005. Eleven locations. |
![[This is the game that I wrote]](./img/gameiwrote.jpg)
“This is the game that I wrote” Written for SpeedIF Gruff on Jan. 21, 2006; the theme was fractured fairy tales. Two locations. Download gameiwrote.zip. |
My IF in Esperanto
- “Fajfeta sur la Luno” - the Esperanto version of “Squeaky on the Moon”, including the v0.1 esper.h and esperg.h files.
- v0.2 esper.h and esperg.h (a work in progress)
- Komencanta Gvidilo al Interreagema Fikcio
My IfMUD Stuff
- My ifMud Maps: Overview,
Edifice Towers,
Mini Maps.
- Also: daveMud Maps.
- My JotaCode Articles: Tips on Writing JotaCode, How I make the NPCs move, Sample JotaCode + Proposal.
- My JotaCode on ifMud (Mostly for the Cosmic Encounter Realm):
- The Spaceport – Upper Level, Lower Level, Washrooms, Gantry.
- The Systems – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet.
- plus – The Aliens, The Warp and Beyond, and Maps.
- Elsewhere – Cheeseshop, Holodeck, miscellaneous.
IF Sites • IF People • IF Competitions • IF Companies
IF Sites
- Intros for Beginners – IF Guide, Brass Lantern Beginner Resources, Ifaq, Cloak of Darkness.
- Downloads – IF Archive (mirrors: plover, jmac, f'plex, ibiblio), Home of the Underdogs, BlueChillies.
- Play IF Online at – ifiction.org.
- News & Reviews – Audyssey, Baf's Guide (ml), Brass Lantern, GTxA, (IF-Legends), IFRC, IF Ratings, IF-Review, Quandry, SPAG, Suite101, SynTax, Trotting Krips, XYZZYnews.
- Newsgroups – Welcome, rec.arts.int-fiction (FAQ, Google), rec.games.int-fiction (FAQ, Google), Rakontointeraktiva.
- Links – dmoz IF, ifFinder, ifHOS, Google IF, PARSIFAL, Yahoo IF.
- IF Languages & Development Systems
- Adrift (ATTS, calendar, chat, Forum, InsideADRIFT, jAsea, MacScare, Network Forum, O.A.R.S., Scare, webring).
- Alan.
- Hugo (manual, Hugonomicon).
- Inform (DM4, FAQ, IBG,
Maintenance,
patches,
Blorb, OnyxRing, Platypus,
Quetzal spec, V6Lib, Z-Spec).
- Inform Tips (zarf, Roger Firth, Doe's Primer, Doe's Tips, lpsmith, Andrew Clover, two-star's Platypus Tips).
- ZCode Interpreters (Amiga Zip, Dos Frotz, Frotz, Gnusto, JZip/JZExe, MacFrotz, Malyon, MaxZip, Nitfol, Pilot-Frotz, PocketPC Frotz, Rezrov, Windows Frotz 2000, WinFrotz, XZip, ZedFunge, Zip, Zip Infinity, Zonk, Zoom, ZPlet).
- ZCode Utilities (BundleMonkey, Czech, IBlorb, MaxZIP, Plotz, Reform, TXD, XZip).
- Glulx (Git, Glk, Gull, GWindows, WinGit).
- TADS (Jetty, HyperTADS, MaxTADS, WinTADS).
- TADS3 (ml).
- Tads3 Docs (Tour Guide)
- Tads3 Tips (Kwi, Edward L. Stauff's Proto-Docs, mine)
- Others: AAS, Adventure Book,
AGS, AGT (ml,
Glk AGiliTy), CAT, IAGE, IF#, IFML, JACL, Linder, Mad, PAWS, PUB, QML, Quest,
QuestBasher, Quill/PAW,
Snap, SUDS,
Text-World, Visionaire,
ZIL
(pdf manual).
See also: Game Creation Resources. - Unsorted Utilities & Interpreters –
(Note: I'm in the process of moving these to the appropriate language/development system, where appropriate.)
Fink, Frobnitz (Palm), GlkDOS, IF-IDE, Imaginate, Zag, Zann, Zeal, Zinc.
- Non-English
- General – rakontointeraktiva.
- Croatian & Slovakian – ex-YU Computer Scene.
- French – Anamnèse, Inform 6 en français, Inform_fr à Yahoo!, Fiction-FR, FrITES, Jeux Access, Baf's.
- German – Adventurearchiv, T.A.G., textfire.de, if-de forum (en), if-de Webring, German Inform Manual, Baf's.
- Greek – Adventure Advocate.
- Italian – Guida alle avventure italiane, IF Italia, Informazioni, it.comp.giochi.aventure.testuali, Baf's.
- Japanese – Zork I.
- Spanish – CAAD , SPAC, Baf's.
- Swedish – svenska-aventyr, Baf's.
- IF Humour – Death of Adventure Games, IF-a-Minute (thanks to archive.org), Snap, Thy Dungeonman, Transcript, Tril's IF Humour page (wayback).
- Other – Adventureland (mirror), AIF/SAIFA, Assistance, Authorship, Beta-Testers, Blogs at IF Library, Bookclub, Cheese, Collaborators, Colossal Cave, Feelies, Foibles, Glossary, ifMud (lj, IF and a MUD), IFPatterns, Solutions, SpeedIF, Theory, Timeline, Translators, Wiki (changes).
IF People
- Some ifMudders – Acapnotic (lj), Adam (lj), Ampersand, amackinnon, andreaw, andyf (lj), Aris, baf, Barabbas, Bishop (lj), BoingBall, boucher, BrenBarn (lj), buzzard (lj), Chrysoula (lj), ctate, Dan_Wood, DanDawson, Daniel, Dave, DavidW, ddyte (lj), DejaDuo, devil, dfan (lj), DGlasser (lj), Dilbon, Dino, Doe, Domokov, DorianX, Duchess (lj), Eileen, elf (lj), Ellison, Emily (lj), Esrom (lj), Ferret (lj), gayla, ghira (lj), Ghogg (lj, IF blog), Golrien, Grocible, Gunther (lj), Hjalfi, Hugo, Iain (lj), inky (lj), Ivan (lj), Jacqueline (lj), JasonMel, Jaybird, Jearl, Jeff (lj), jess (lj), jnc, josh_g (lj), Jota (lj), jwalrus, kenf, K'tohg, K-Y, katre, Kiz (lj), Kwi, Limax (lj), Lionheart (j), liza (lj), lno (lj), lpsmith (lj), Lucea, lurd (lj), LyleBrown (lj), maga (lj), mamster (lj), markm, (lj), Marvin, Matthew (lj), mcp (lj), mef (lj), Miseri, (lj), Mystery, Nate (IF, lj), neild, nm, olethros (lj), OnyxApe, Oren (lj), ParserGirl, Paul, Psmith, Q-Stone, Recchi, requiescat, rjbs, Rob (lj), RogerCarbol, Ryan (lj, blog), Sargent (lj), schep, Sean, Skeet (lj), Spatch, Sslaxx (lj), Stacey, Storme (lj), Tablesaw (lj), Thrax, thumper, Trent (lj), Tril, two-star (lj), Valancy (lj), veek (lj), Whizzard, Yoon (lj), zarf.
- Some ADRIFT-ers – Cannibal, Christopher Cole, Ken Franklin (KF), Mystery, Soothsayer, David Whyld (DavidW), Campbell Wild.
- Black sheep – AP Hill (Santoonie), Paul Allen Panks, Howard Sherman (Malinche).
- Other IF-ers – Rick Adams, Scott Adams, Martin Bays, Steve Barrera, Steve Bernard, Stephen Bond, Elise Boucher, Nikos Chantziaras, Tommaso Caldarola, Francesco Cordella, Michael Coyne, Chris Crawford, Kevan Davis, Joe DeRouen, Paul David Doherty, Florian Edlbauer, John Escobedo, Roger Firth, Star Foster, Roberto Grassi (IF Portal), Ben Hines, Jon Ingold, Michael Jachini, Dennis G. Jerz, Paul Johnson, Jessica Knoch, Stefano Lorenzin, Graham Nelson, "Nerd42" (h2g2), Yassen Nikolov, Martin Oehm, Jonathan Partington, William Patterson (Ailanto), Fredrik Ramsberg, Daniel Ravipinto, Gareth Rees, Scott Neal Reilly, David Tanguay, Brian Uri, Stephen van Egmond, Paolo Vece, Don Woods.
- Graphical Adventure Authors: Jeroen Stout (author of Divided).
IF Competitions
| 2 0 06 |
January 2006 30: Erins 2005 |
February 2006 |
March 2006 ??: XYZZY Awards 200531: Spring Thing 2006 (Greg Boettcher) |
April 2006 |
May 2006 |
June 2006 | |
July 2006 |
August 2006 |
September 2006 | |
October 2006 ??: IF Comp 2006 |
November 2006 |
December 2006 | |
| 2 0 05 |
January 2005 ??: Third 24 Hours of Inform (Kevan Davis)29: 3rd Great IF Excerpt Hunt (Jason Dyer) |
February 2005 |
March 2005 13: StupidTitleComp (Greg Boettcher)15: Mystery House Taken Over 20: XYZZY Awards 2004 29: Erins 2004 31: Spring Thing 2005 (Greg Boettcher) |
April 2005 18: Adrift Spring Comp 2005 (KF)25: ORGC 2005 (Francesco Cordella) |
May 2005 22: Adrift Intro Comp 2005 (rotter)26: Segment Mini-Comp (Dave Cornelson) |
June 2005 29: CCAB Comp 2005 (Cole/Bomire) | |
July 2005 10: LoTech Comp 2005 (robgrassi)24: IntroComp 2005 (Jacqueline) |
August 2005 21: Adrift Summer Comp 2005 (KF)23: Speed-IF Zombie (Ghogg/Rob) 28: Speed-IF Jacket 3 (maga) |
September 2005 06: 2K Comp 2005 (Dunric)12: MedievoComp (Baltasar/Urbatain) 25: Finish the Game Comp 2005 (David Whyld) | |
October 2005 01: IF Comp 2005 (Sargent)??: French Comp #1 (Otto Grimwald) |
November 2005 |
December 2005 19: Adrift End of Year Comp 2005 (KF) |
- 2004 – Fourth One-Hour Games Comp (Mar; Woodfish; ADRIFT; ftp) • InsideADRIFT Spring Comp (Apr–May; KF) • IF Art Show (May; Doe) • IntroComp (July; Jacqueline) • BetaComp (Aug; Jess Knoch) • Annual IF Comp (Oct; Sargent) • Commodore 32 Contest (Dec; Dave Bernazzani) • 24 Hours of Inform (Dec; Kevan Davis)
- 2003 – Grand Prix textfire.de (German) • 24 Hours of Inform (Dec–Feb; Kevan Davis) • IFLibrary.Com IF Comp (Mar; Jarb) • IntroComp 2003 (Mar; Jacqueline) • 2nd Spring IF Comp (Apr; Adam) • IF Logic Puzzle Minicomp (Apr; zarf) • ADRIFT Spring Comp (Apr; KF) • IF Art Show (Apr; Doe) • Minigames Comp (Jun; Ben Caplan) • ALAN-Comp (Jul; no entries; Walter Sandsquish) • ADRIFT Summer Minicomp (Aug; KF) • Beta-Test Comp 2003 (Aug; Jessica Knoch) • SwashComp (Aug; Emily) • Annual IF Comp (Oct; Sargent) • ADRIFT End of Year Comp (Dec; KF) • One Room Game Competition 2003 (Dec-Jan; Giovanni Riccardi)
- 2002 – Adrift Winter MiniComp (Jan; KF) • RomanceNovelComp (Feb; Storme) • 24 Hours of Inform (Feb; Kevan Davis) • IntroComp (Mar; neild) • IFLibrary Comp (Mar; Jarb) • Adrift Annual Comp (cancelled; KF) • Politicomp (no entries; May; JasonMel) • Bryan’s ADRIFT Comp (cancelled; Apr; Bryan Miller) • textfire.de Comp (Apr; Florian Edlbauer) • LoTechComp II (May; Mark Silcox) • SpringComp (May/Jun; Adam) • IF Marathon (Jun; Ghogg) • Transcript Comp (Jun; Ryan) • QML CYOA Contest (Jun; Philipp Lenssen) • Adrift Summer Mini Comp 2002 (Aug; KF) • Annual IF Comp (Oct; Sargent) • Adrift End of Year Comp 2002 (Dec; KF) • AIFA 2002–The Erins
- 2001 – SmoochieComp (Feb; Emily) • Premio Avventura dell'anno 2001 (Mar; Italian) • WalkthruComp (May; Emily) • Annual IF Comp (Fall; Sargent)
- 2000 – Toaster Contest (Aug; markm), Annual IF Comp (Fall; Sargent)
- 1999 – Annual IF Comp (Fall; Sargent)
- 1998 – Annual IF Comp (Fall; ddyte)
- 1997 – Annual IF Comp (Fall; Whizzard)
- 1996 – Annual IF Comp (Fall; Whizzard)
- 1995 – Annual IF Comp (Fall; Whizzard)
Companies
- Infocom & Zork – Activision, Chronology of Quendor, Faye's Shrine of Zork (Archived), FrobozzMagicCo., Infocom Bugs and More Infocom Bugs, Infocom Documentation Project, infocom-if.org, Invisiclues, Andy Edwards' The Big Zork Page, Zork Library.
- Others – Cascade Mountain Publishing, DreamCatcher, Legend Entertainment (Unofficial Legend), Level 9 Memorial, Magnetic Scrolls Memorial, Penguin/Polarware, Sierra, Sierra-Online, Topologika, Uru (at UbiSoft), World of Spectrum.
