Monthly Archives: October 2014

Forthcoming Interactive Fiction Events

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

The judging period of IF Comp has two weeks remaining; it seems like a good time, before it’s over and we get down to dissecting the results, to remember that the Comp isn’t the only event in the IF calendar, and … Continue reading →

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IF Comp 2014: The Secret Vaults of Kas the Betrayer

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

The Secret Vaults of Kas the Betrayer (A.E. Jackson) is a CYOA fantasy cave-crawl made in Twine.

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IF Comp 2014: Transparent

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Transparent (Hanon Ondricek) is an I7 parser game, a horror piece in the well-beloved explore-the-house genre.

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IF Comp 2014: HHH.exe

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

HHH.exe (Robot Parking) is a CYOA Twine game based (with permission) on the 1990 graphic adventure Hugo’s House of Horrors.

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IF Comp 2014: Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen! (Steph Cherrywell) is a parser-based game made in Quest. I am biased by some existing familiarity with (and slightly-bemused fondness for) the author’s webcomics Intragalactic and Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy. A feature of those is a tendency to go for dense, zany detail, kind … Continue reading →

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IF Comp 2014: Origins

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Origins (Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens) is a choice-based piece, a slice-of-life thing in which two characters act simultaeneously. It is very short – a single playthrough takes a minute or two.

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IF Comp 2014: And yet it moves

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

 And yet it moves (Orion Zymaris) is a parser game made in Inform. The player, a student of the house-arrested Galileo, must smuggle the manuscript of the Discourses out of Italy and get it to a publisher in Holland.

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IF Comp 2014: The Contortionist

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

The Contortionist, by Nicholas Stillman, is a Twine-based parser/choice hybrid thing. The game offers a consistent set of verb-links; these either carry out an action immediately, or lead to small sets of context-dependent nouns.

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IF Comp 2014: Tower

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Tower (Simon Deimel) is a parser game made in I7.

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IF Comp 2014: Arqon: A Criminal’s Journey

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Arqon: A Criminal’s Journey (H.J. Hoke) is a fantasy CRPG-like, parser-based and made in Inform 7.

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