Comments on: Interactive Fiction Competition 2007

By: Tom H.

Tom H. — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:47:45 +0000

OK, that’s where the other site got the error: you don’t have to play for a full 2 hours. First game I tried was done-fully explored-in 45 minutes. Others I find I’m comfortable rating after an hour. So you can make some contribution to the contest in 5 hours over the next month-and-a-half. Or just play some for fun.

By: Adam Hepton

Adam Hepton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:35:09 +0000

“And then quit your job, play them all through before the 15th November, and vote.”

Pshaw. I managed quite successfully to plough through the entire 2004 competition whilst “working”. Of course, I haven’t managed to do the two competitions since, so that might say more about the lack of things to do in my job circa 2004 than my ability to skive convincingly at work.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:17:37 +0000

Nah, it’s just what’s it’s called. Problem with interactive fiction is that some of the stuff is getting increasingly ungamelike, to the point of almost total linerarity. There’s some interesting stuff out there.

This reminds me, reposting my Wordplay article from Edge from a few years ago may not be a bad ideas. Deals with some IF stuff, as well as – hey! – Planescape.

By: Martin Coxall

Martin Coxall — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:12:09 +0000

“Interactive fiction”? Is that some pompous name used by pretentious oiks so they can pretend they’re not playing games? After all, games are for kids, right?

Pffft.

No points for any of them until they start calling them ‘adventure games’, mmmkay?