#interactivefiction
Finished Gareth Reese's 1995 interactive fiction game Christminster. A magnificent piece which has aged very well. There are a few moments of weird adventure game logic, but mostly the puzzles are woven into a terrific story and environment. You are Christabel Spencer, more or less breaking into a male-only British college to save your brother, who has disappeared. There will be tears, deaths, secret passages, and the greatest challenge of all: eating lobster at high table. #InteractiveFiction
And the quest goes on. I hardly remember this part from my first playthrough a couple of years ago. But I have to say the director‘s cut is a big improvement over the original game.
#interactivefiction #retrogaming #psion #series3
The Creative Process #9 - Unearthing and Advancing
https://brettwitty.substack.com/p/the-creative-process-9-unearthing?sd=pf
Continuing our quest on the alien ship in „Hibernated 1“. We also managed to upgrade IO to level 2!
#interactivefiction #retrogaming
Spring Thing countdown:
After leaving my game alone for several days, I have returned for some final checks. Thoughts:
- There is so much text! I find something to hone or economize every time I open the project.
- This game is really, really not going to be for everyone.
- I will be glad to have this game submitted; at long last I won't be able to tinker with it.
Games are due Sunday before midnight, local time.
@caad you can use and follow the #InteractiveFiction hashtag, so all the community sees you there. Welcome!
Also, we should start thinking of what hashtag to use for Spanish content.
This manifesto by @ivanpapiol put concisely all the feelings of why we are here, as opposed to "there", and why we recently block "lotoffollowers accounts" and do not participate on corporate. And most important, why we choose to create networks for the #InteractiveFiction community.
In short, The Hobbit is a seminal game in the history of video games and #InteractiveFiction. It feels fresh and different, but impossible and almost inaccessible at the same time, but it has a lot to contribute to emerging game design in the 21st century.
So, we have a twitch TV program about #InteractiveFiction news, and we play live an IF game each week. In the past session, we played The hobbit translated into Spanish.
As my colleague said: "It feels like closing a cycle, 40 years later".
What follows is a small thread about my feelings about the game...
A continued effort to characterize Zork as a six game "saga" continues with a look back at the rhetorical situation of the PDP version of Zork.
https://golmac.org/the-main-narrative-frame-from-zork-to-zork/
I spent tonight trying to salvage old drives to find my old #interactivefiction projects. One drive had some gems on it, but Past Brett encrypted the drive with some ancient Seagate software that messed with the files but not the directory structure. I could guess the password, but no idea if I could run anything to recover it!
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Infidel by #Infocom this game has a pretty dark ending. I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1776084974
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #RetroGaming #RetroGames #80sAdventureGames #MSDOS #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #InteractiveFiction
Today was the first meeting of the #InteractiveFiction group I made. The players were my brother and a friend from high school. It felt good to laugh with them and write a story again. It's been at least two decades since we all sat down and did that.
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST will be checking out another #TextAdventure from #Infocom I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #RetroGaming #RetroGames #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #InteractiveFiction #80sAdventureGames #MSDOS
wow...again, these Film Courage series on YouTube definitely has transferability into the #InteractiveFiction world. aren't these just essentially films with the ability to control the story?
Uploading the #Inform7 #SourceCode for my 2 released #parser #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #games prompted me to look at the code again. Still wowed by that language. I know some traditional programmers find it too strange. But as a former #C and declarative language #Prolog programmer I find it magical. And the Inform 7 #IDE is like playing an #adventure game as you write. Ridiculous fun. And now I want to write and release more Inform 7 games. https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/ #GameDev #Programming
it's a shame that i can't go to pittsburgh this year for #NarraScope, but i've been given assurances from the life boss that i can next year. it really would be nice to meet fellow individuals in the #InteractiveFiction community
The #Inform7 #sourceCode for my two released #parser #TextAdventure / #InteractiveFiction games (Border Reivers and Napier's Cache) is now in the #IFArchive, in the games/source/inform directory. This is part of a move this year to release more IF game source code publicly. http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/inform/ #ComputerGames #Adventure #HistoricalGames #ScottishGames #Code #GameDev
New blog post! In which I work out how to extract metadata from blorb files (used to distribute certain types of #InteractiveFiction games) with C#.
Hibernated 1 - This Place is Death.
A rather short, but very entertaining piece of interactive fiction.
#interactivefiction
So... What do you feel?
Do you think letters and diaries are falling on the short side recently?
Do you agree that new consumers are less tolerant of words?
Do you have any favorite game that delivers very short letters but for high effect?
Do you prefer the letters in your plays very short, short, or long?
And how does that affect us #InteractiveFiction designers in our task? (probably this only matters when applying words to commercial projects that aspire to reach wider audiences.)
So, recently I've learned that people playing video games nowadays don't read more than 20 words straight, #InteractiveFiction friends. Where does that leave us?
I came to this shocking revelation because of two events... 👇
Streaming schedule for this week! All CET. Only two and then some time off as I am away.
20/03 - 5pm: Creating extensions for the #elgato Stream Deck
21/03 - 4pm: Writing interactive fiction with #Inform7
Watch live or later on YouTube.
Time for a new #introduction!
I'm Małgorzata, a #literary #fiction #writer with two #books traditionally published in my native language #Polish.
Currently, I #amWriting short stories in English under the working title 'Women on the Verge of Greatness'. Contemporary fiction, self-inflicted problems, lots of angst.
I am also working on an #InteractiveFiction #game in Twine. It's going slowly because I'm really bad at it. That's fine.
I'll be tooting about my progress (or lack thereof).
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Planetfall from #Infocom I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1769505885
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #RetroGaming #RetroGames #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #80sAdventureGames #InteractiveFiction
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST will be playing another #Infocom #TextAdventure I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #RetroGaming #RetroGames #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #80sAdventureGames #InteractiveFiction
So with #SourceCode Amnesty Day coming up on April 1st, I should probably finally do something about making the source for my two #InteractiveFiction titles (with still unpublished source code, most of my other recent stuff is already available to the world) public:
"The Gateway of The Ferrets" https://feneric.itch.io/the-gateway-of-the-ferrets
"Timeout in the Wasteland" https://feneric.itch.io/timeout-in-the-wasteland
http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/03/april-1-is-if-source-code-amnesty-day.html
this is making me yearn for the completely different form for #InteractiveFiction that I've had in my mind for a while, that I was never able to get to congeal. I think I will be able to make it work, after I'm done this porn exercise. but it's unlikely to be the next puppy I rescue from my sack. and it's too bad that form wouldn't have worked for this one. *shrug*
I spent several hours reading through this still-in-progress #InteractiveFiction forum thread, driven by Daniel Stelzer, playing 1995's "Jigsaw". https://intfiction.org/t/lets-play-jigsaw/59520
I loved this game, and sunk a weekend or two immersed in the brand-new text adventure before my final year at university pulled me away, leaving my progress forever unfinished.
What a joy to revisit familiar places—including the puzzle I got stuck on (the *mandolin*? oy)—and to see so much fresh exploration and discussion.
As some have mentioned, April 1 is IF Source Code Amnesty Day where you make your #InteractiveFiction source code public, regardless of quality! In preparation of this day, I am releasing how to search for mine (some already are there and yes some suck): https://rezrov.xyz/explore/repos?sort=recentupdate&language=&q=interactive+fiction
I've been out of #InteractiveFiction long enough that I hadn't heard of "Source Code Amnesty Day." I've still got the Flight of the Hummingbird source, and I really should have published it sooner.
This also seems like an excellent opportunity to re-inflict The Atrocitron upon the world, and actually write a bit about its design instead of just dumping it in the archive and fleeing into the night.
... which is how I *released* it.
... it's still my best-reviewed work.
http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/03/april-1-is-if-source-code-amnesty-day.html
April 1 is IF #SourceCode Amnesty Day. I plan to join in on this, sharing my #Inform7 source code for my Scottish historical #parser #InteractiveFiction #games Border Reivers and Napier's Cache. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/03/april-1-is-if-source-code-amnesty-day.html #OpenSource #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGames #TextAdventures #GameDev #Inform #Coding #Programming #ComputerGames
I'm going to play #zork. What does everyone use for mapping? I'm siding eith just drawing rectangles with lines on paper. Is there any software that's good for #interactivefiction. Either for linux or android. #retrogaming
Want a fresh perspective & expert feedback on your story idea before you get started, or because you've gotten stuck midway? I now offer story guidance based on planning documents (synopses, outlines, ...) for romance & interactive fiction. Details at https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/idea-development-romance--if.html
@writers @edibuddies @bookstodon #WritingCommunity #Writing #Editor #AmEditing #WritingAdvice #WritingCraft #Writer #WritersLife #QueerWriters #AmWriting #AmWritingRomance #Romancelandia #QueerRomance #InteractiveFiction
Cafe Magic is all complete on Storyloom! It's a sweet, cozy f/f romance with magical drinks and plenty of coffee. It's still free this month, so log in and check it out!
My farewell notice as I step down from the @IFTF@mastodon.gamedev.place presidency—and the introduction of my successor in the role, about which I could not be more pleased.
https://intfiction.org/t/a-change-in-iftf-leadership/60976
Thank you everyone. It's been an amazing eight years, and I am so grateful for the many, many people who joined me in shaping and empowering our wonderful little digital arts nonprofit.
Here's looking ahead to a fantastic future of interactive text and narrative diversions of all sorts!
#MoofADay: Tass Times in Tonetown 🎸
learn the shocking way you would pronounce this game’s title from Latin roots
#retrogaming #InteractiveFiction #macintosh #MARCHintosh
https://youtu.be/trCdOtNTUGs
Some early morning coding, patching, tracing 6502 code, more patching.... blah blah blah... and that appears to be the #Commodore #VIC20 Scott Adams adventure cartridges working with my #SAMCoupe VIC-20 Cartridge Interface! 😀
#Retrogaming #Retrocomputing #InteractiveFiction #AdventureGames
The next cartridges to try and add support for on the #SAMCoupe with my new Limited Edition #VIC20 Cartridge Interface:
The Scott Adams adventures!
The adventures use 16K out of the 32K memory space reserved for the cartridges. BLK1+BLK5 are empty, with the game code residing in BLK2+BLK3.
I'm able to be read in the game code perfectly via the interface, I just need to do some hefty patching of the emulator to support them!
#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #AdventureGames #InteractiveFiction
I don't know if anyone else in the world needs this — say "hi!" if you do — but I made a DEC VT100 terminal overlay for #RetroArch (created for using the excellent MojoZork core by @icculus for Infocom adventures). You can download it here: https://sarahkmarr.com/VT100_overlay.zip. Have fun.
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#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #DEC #ASCII #TextAdventure #Infocom #Zork #InteractiveFiction
#MoofADay: The Mist 😶🌫️
wherein I forget if the movie adaptation of “The Mist” was released in 2007 or 1985
#retrogaming #macintosh #MARCHintosh #InteractiveFiction #StephenKing
https://youtu.be/ZlI0WvJ2B4Y
Something I bet I share with mere dozens of people: Nine years later, I'll occasionally encounter a song and think "Ooh, this would have made a great ShuffleComp entry prompt."
Happens most with lyrical descriptions of specific locations, paired with richly imperative verbs suggesting things one can try doing there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaLIqHOsb8
#InteractiveFiction #Synthpop #Music
(More about ShuffleComp: https://www.ifwiki.org/ShuffleComp)
A group of Interactive Fiction critics are working to start an online magazine of IF theory and criticism. We're looking for a few editors to pitch in.
We will publish great analysis for non-academic audiences. We are an inclusive team that welcomes inquiries from members of underrepresented groups.
Expertise with choice IF would be especially helpful, though this is not a requirement.
A not-for-profit labor of love.
PM me for details.
Please boost!
Last year I released a bit of software that lets yu move around Parser based interactive fiction or text adventure games using your PC Keyboard's number pad, turning it into a sort of d-pad. So 8 is north, 6 is east, 2 is south, and so on.
It was something I wanted for years, and since I couldn't find anything like it I decided to have a go at making it myself.
I know hardly anything about coding so frankly I'm surprised it works at all. I did it in AutoHotkey script as it's simple enough for me to understand. This means it's Windows only unfortunately.
If it's something you might find useful, grab it from the IF Archive at https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/mapping-tools/IF_D-pad.zip.
The source code is at https://github.com/kara-louise/IF-D-pad.
#InteractiveFiction #TextAdventure #Games
Hey IF people! The deadline for submitting your intent to enter Spring Thing is due 11:59 pm (your local time), March 1. If you plan to enter but haven't registered, here's a link.
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Transylvania an #AdventureGame by #Polarware I sadly do not finish this game but please boost this post as I'm a #SmallStreamer
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1749599705
#AdventureGames #SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #MSDOS #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST will be checking out another 80s/90s #AdventureGame tune in to find out what it is I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #AdventureGames #MSDOS #Retrogaming #Retrogames #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction
@joningold Once you get past the first puzzles and into the college, Christminster becomes *really good*. Based on the score, I'm about a third of the way through the game, and it's been a blast so far. I'll make those don's pay for whatever they did to my brother, that's for sure! #InteractiveFiction
Trying to play Christminster by Gareth Reese, but just getting *into* the college seems to be a puzzle beyond my capabilities, which makes me fear that I'll fail even harder if I ever do get inside. #InteractiveFiction
Check out my recent #Twitch stream of #Deadline I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1728865187
#Retrogaming #Retrogames #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #Infocom #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST. I will be playing another #AdventureGame from the golden age I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#Retrogaming #Retrogames #SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #AdventureGames #MSDOS #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #Infocom
Here's a screenshot of what scripting looks like
I want more people to try this engine so please try it or help people know it exists ❤️
You can also signal boost it on the Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/NarratEngine/status/1620903986730778626)
Or the Tumblr post (https://www.tumblr.com/bubbline3456/708071346693865473/narrat-engine-demo-narrat-is-a-game-engine-i?source=share)
🚀 Get started using it on the website https://get-narrat.com/
#Narrat #gamedev #javascript #typescript #vue #programming #gaming #html #indiedev #rpg #project #tech #visualnovel #interactivefiction
Here's a little features list for it
🚀 Super easy to get started with a tool that will setup your project
✍️ Customisable characters, branching dialog and conditions
👩💻 Super easy scripting with a custom made language that focuses on letting you write dialog
🎧Audio support for music loops and sound effects
📘RPG features like skills with skill checks, inventory, quests
🎨 Accessible UI customisation with CSS
⚙️ Extremely configurable
💡Plugin system to add functionality to the engine, new bits of UI or even extend the scripting language with your own commands!
🖥️ Steam export setup by default
🎬 Support for GIFs or webp in images for easy animation
🖼️ Dynamic sprites and text to programmatically display custom elements on screen
🌍 Completely free and open source, and with a helpful Discord
#Narrat #gamedev #javascript #typescript #vue #programming #gaming #html #indiedev #rpg #project #tech #visualnovel #interactivefiction
🚀 If you just want to try it, , get on the website it’s very quick (https://get-narrat.com)
Here are some screenshots of games that have been made on it by people (Links to those games are on the website)
I don't really have a big network of followers so the only people can learn about this engine is if other people help spread info about it
#Narrat #gamedev #javascript #typescript #vue #programming #gaming #html #indiedev #rpg #project #tech #visualnovel #interactivefiction
Narrat 🐀 has been getting a bit of attention again so here's another intro of the engine. I think most people who might be interested in this don't actually know about it so I'm hoping to reach more people for once.
Narrat is a game engine I created to easily make interactive fiction games (narrative RPGs, visual novels etc) for desktop or browser.
I’ve worked on this game engine for some time, mostly to help friends make their games. It’s been used on a few small games, and some bigger ones in progress.
This Tumblr post has more details and could do with a signal boost as it's getting attention https://www.tumblr.com/bubbline3456/708071346693865473/narrat-engine-demo-narrat-is-a-game-engine-i?source=share
There's also a Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/NarratEngine
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#Narrat #gamedev #javascript #typescript #vue #programming #gaming #html #indiedev #rpg #project #tech #visualnovel #interactivefiction
A new set of #InteractiveFiction game #awards is taking votes right now on the best games of 2022, whether traditional #parser text #adventure #games, web #choice games or another form of interactive fiction. Awards decided by public vote. If you’ve enjoyed even one piece of interactive fiction released last year please add your votes. The awards are being run via the IFDB website and more details are in the IntFiction forum. https://intfiction.org/t/2022-ifdb-awards-are-now-open/60070/ #TextAdventure #ComputerGames #CreativeWriting
If you're making #interactivefiction and #visualnovel , the talks from the VNConf 2023 just got released on Youtube!
A bunch of cool stuff there, on marketing, narrative design and even voice acting direction
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsXG4_BY8mowjpDwP2g0-FEOyonmq2wFs
Check out my #Twitch stream of #ZorkII I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1721886903
#Retrogaming #Retrogames #SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #Infocom
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM. I will be playing #ZorkII I played it last Sunday but forgot to turn the camera on woops lol. I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventure #AdventureGame #AdventureGames #Infocom #Zork #Retrogaming #Retrogames
Someone's ported the Level 9 text adventure engine + game data for the BBC Micro to Python. While I was mince at these, I know many people were fond of them.
Repo: https://github.com/ajgbarnes/level9
Announcement/discussion: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=26239
#Python #RetroComputing #BBCMicro #InteractiveFiction #Level9
Will be going live on #Twitch at 2:30 AM CST will be playing another #AdventureGame from the 80s/90s that is mostly a #TextAdventure but does have some graphics. I'm a #SmallStreamer so please boost this post and raids are greatly appreciated.
https://www.twitch.tv/angelus_05
#Retrogaming #Retrogames #SmallStreamersConnect #SmallStreamersUnite #SupportSmallStreamers #InteractiveFiction #MSDOS
The #Unconf23 exhibit space is at http://selfcareworldcare.wikidot.com/litworks — see our artists' works of #DigitalLiterature for #SocialGood!
#TIL that the PlayStation release of #Zork was A Thing, and it had a SOUNDTRACK, available on @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/zork1music
#InteractiveFiction