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2017 Interactive Fiction Competition
- hoodoof 9y agoI like the idea of very short IF games, for the casual gaming era. Perhaps playable in a one hour commute. I just don't have time for the multi month extravaganza IF games I played when I was a kid. I wonder if such games exist.
- fbarred 9y agoThe IF competition games are supposed to be judged in two hours. In theory this motivates the authors to keep their games shorter. Some of my favorite short games: Photopia (http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#photopia http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#photopia), 9:05 (http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#9:05 http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#9:05). The last two are more narrative genre, it is very hard to get "stuck". In the classical puzzle genre try Balances (http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=x6ne0bbd2oqm6h3a http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=x6ne0bbd2oqm6h3a) (unofficial successor to the great "Enchanter" trilogy games from Infocom).
- jeffwass 9y agoSeconded for Photopia, really amazing. I think somehow the act of playing in your story (The puzzles are super gentle in that one,'it's the antithesis of Zoek, but it sets the stage for an interactive exploratory novel) makes you connect more closely than just reading alone. Though I say this as ironically I just finished the draft of my first novel, which is not interactive at all.
- i_don_t_know 9y agoMy favorite IF Comp game ever is Lost Pig: http://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/ http://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
- pigheaded 9y agoToo bad the web page doesn't work on iOS.
- i_don_t_know 9y agoThat's a bummer. You should be able to play it and many other games on iOS with Frotz. I don't remember if the version in the app store includes a copy of the game. If not, you can search for it and download it from within Frotz.