Interactive Fiction

My involvement with IF
Information on IntroComp
Interactive fiction releases
Interactive fiction reviews
Graphic adventure reviews
My random ifMUD pages
ClubFloyd Transcripts



My Involvment with Interactive Fiction

I've been playing interactive fiction since I was eight, when my parents bought me a copy of Zork. I don't think I solved it for a number of years, but the beauty of many of the locations became fixed in my mind, and I would daydream about wandering through the Great Underground Empire when I should have perhaps been studying French. I was never about the puzzles, and though many look back on Zork and other early works as puzzle fests, I look back on how the prose made my imagination wander, how I would read a description and then stop to visualize. I still wish IF was mostly about that, and I suppose in the better works it still is.

I lost touch with interactive fiction until I stumbled upon the newsgroups in the autumn of 2001. Since that time, IF has become a fairly big part of my life, and many of my closest friends are fellow enthusiasts

Since 2003, I have been the organizer for IntroComp, because I feel it's a fantastic way for authors (particularly *new* authors) to tempt us with ideas and receive some feedback prior to pouring everything into their work. For the latest information of IntroComp, please visit Xyzzy News.

As for programming interactive fiction, I have written or co-written six released games. Click on the individual title for more information on that piece, as well as an option to download it.

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Interactive Fiction Reviews


Competition Reviews:

IFcomp 2002
IFcomp 2003
IFcomp 2004
IFcomp 2005
IFcomp 2007
One Room Game Comp 2007
IFcomp Rating Methods
IF Art Show 2007


Other IF Game Reviews:

Fine Tuned
Nord & Bert

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Graphic Adventure Reviews

They're interactive. They're fiction. Granted, they're not text based and thus might not be entirely apropos here, but they're closely enough related that I feel this to be the proper place on the site for them.

Syberia I     (Written with Sam Kabo Ashwell)
Syberia II     (Written with Sam Kabo Ashwell)
Myst IV: Revelation     (Written with Sam Kabo Ashwell)
NiBiRu: Age of Secrets     (Written with Sam Kabo Ashwell)
Runaway 2: Dream of the Turtle     (Written with Sam Kabo Ashwell)
Dream Chronicles     (Shockingly written without Sam Kabo Ashwell)


Please note: There are more video game reviews on the Video Game Reviews portion of the Miscellany page.

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My Random ifMUD Pages

Many members of the IF community hang out and chat on ifMUD. I've made a few pages for fellow "mudders" that probably won't make much sense to you unless you've been onmud:

Isquiesqueness Revealed
Why I Have Bad Pet Karma
Bad Pet Karma Revisited
Edifice Towers 1013
Inner Fuzziness: My First Poll

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ClubFloyd Transcripts

ClubFloyd was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Here are the transcripts from our game-play sessions (these are rather lengthy and may take time to load, depending on your Internet connection):

Nevermore by Nate Cull
Weishaupt Scholars by Michael Martin
Fear by Chuan-Tze Teo
Common Ground by Stephen Granade
Mother Loose by Irene Callaci
Lost Pig by Grunk
An Act of Murder by Hugh Dunnett
Lord Bellwater's Secret by Sam Gordon
House of Dream of Moon by the IF Whispers Team
Spur by Kent Tessman
New Year's Speed by Various Authors
Child's Play by Stephen Granade
Suveh Nux by David Fisher
Sunset Over Savannah by Ivan Cockrum
Frobozz Magic Support (& Hero, Inc.) by Nate Cull
Uncle Zebulon's Will (& Zugzwang) by Magnus Olsson
John's Fire Witch by John T. Baker II
Fine Tuned by Dionysius Porcupine
The Fire Tower by Jacqueline A. Lott
At Wit's End by Mike Sousa
Rameses by Stephen Bond
Firebird by Bonnie Montgomery
Punk Points by Jim Munroe
Spring Speed IF by Various Authors, plus Cheater by Wesley Osam
The Weapon by Sean Barrett
Recluse by Stephen Gorrell
She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent VanFossen
Coke Is It! and some classic Speed IFs by Various Authors
Little Blue Men by Michael S. Gentry
A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte
The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
The Djinni Chronicles by J D Berry
The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve
Kissing the Buddha's Feet by Leon Lin
The Awakening by Dennis Matheson
Metamorphoses by Emily Short
Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
Attack of the Robot Yeti Zombies by Øyvind Thorsby
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold

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