S1230: " was written and programmed by J. Robinson Wheeler for IF Competiton 2000. He began coding it on 2 September 2000 at 7:04am, and raced like the wind to finish it in time. When not on ifMUD, Rob likes to write, draw, play the piano, and read. At the present time, he lives in Austin, TX, where he is directing his first movie, "The Krone Experiment." " S1231: ""Celie Paradis" is a French sound-alike for "silly parody." " S1232: "As near as I can remember, sometime in the late spring or early summer, someone on ifMUD made a casual "Being Andrew Plotkin" joke, and I said, "Hey, that would be a good premise for a comp game." I filed that notion away and didn't touch it for a long time, because I was busy working on a full-length IF work-in-progress. ("First Things First," which I hope to release before the end of 2000.) " S1233: "At the last minute (see "The author revealed"), I decided to actually go ahead and do "Being Andrew Plotkin" for Comp2k. What I learned from my 1998 Comp entry scores was that pure entertainment value was important. This premise, as it developed in my head, had a ton of it. It seemed just the thing. " S1234: "I had a real blast working on it. First, there was the fun of using Zarf as a character and adapting Zarf's writing. Second, there was the fun of working anonymously. Not that I am a well-known enough author for it to require the extra effort, but I tried a couple of things to keep people from guessing. The first was choosing to write in Inform (but that was also motivated by the subject matter), the second was my deliberate attempt (mainly in the opening stages of the game) to make people suspect that Adam Cadre had written it. I won't know if I succeeded in that until the reviews come in, I guess, but it was something I tried to do. " S1235: "If you enjoyed this game, I would love to hear from you. Send comments and reports to rob.wheeler@stanfordalumni.org. " S1236: "This Interactive Fiction is Copyright (C) 2000 by J. Robinson Wheeler. Elements of Zork I, Enchanter, and Spellbreaker are Copyright (C) 2000 Activision Publishing, Inc. and are used with permission. Elements of A Change in the Weather; So Far; Spider and Web; Hunter, in Darkness; and cave tunnel room and object descriptions are Copyright (C) by Andrew Plotkin and are used with permission. Elements of Inhumane are are Copyright (C) by Info" S1237: "om and are used with permission. Special license is granted to the Sixth Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and its organizer, Stephen Granade, to include this game in a one-time compilation CD-ROM. " S1238: "Multiple hearty thanks to Andrew Plotkin, who gave his approval with openness and good humor. More than that, I appreciate that he gave me some of his time, volunteering suggestions and bug reports. Grateful acknowledgement to Adam Cadre, for general inspiration and for his Inform stub file, I-0 source code, and phototalk.h module; also to David Glasser for his modified version of phototalk.h, phtalkoo.h, a modified (looping) version of which I used for the conversation routines in this game. General thanks to Graham Nelson for Inform; specific thanks to Saul Bottcher, Doug Jones, Vincent Lynch, and Jon Ingold for their beta-testing help; and extra special thanks to Stephen Granade for running Comp2k. " S1239: "When I was working on this game, I created a folder called "Sources" in which I put all of the various materials I collected for help and reference. By the time I finished, this folder was quite large, so just for fun I wanted to list these references: " S1240: " 4in1.inf (JRW) AdvCoke.inf (JRW) Advent.inf (Graham Nelson) Adventureland.inf (Graham Nelson) Balances.inf (Graham Nelson) bap_story.txt (JRW) branch.inf (Chris Klimas) caves.txt (Andrew Plotkin) CokeIsIt.inf (Lucian Smith) colours.inf (JRW) crossbow.txt (Andrew Plotkin) designers_manual.txt (Graham Nelson) dm_supplement.txt (Graham Nelson) enchant.txt (Blank/Lebling) Enchant.sol (Jacob Gunness) Enchanter (Blank/Lebling) entry-002.h (Gunther Schmidl) flags.h (Adam Cadre) hellow.inf how-to-syntax-colour-inform.txt (Graham Nelson) huntdark.txt (Andrew Plotkin) huntdark.z5 (Andrew Plotkin) huntdark2.txt (Andrew Plotkin) I-O.inf (Adam Cadre) infglk-0.6.1 (John Cater) Inform 6.21_3.25 README (Robert Pelak) inhum2.txt (Andrew Plotkin) inhumane.txt (Andrew Plotkin) inhumane.z5 (Andrew Plotkin) looptalk.h (JRW) menus.h (Graham Nelson) Museum.inf (Graham Nelson) once.inf overflow.txt (JRW) park.inf (Robert Pelak) photopia.z5 (Adam Cadre) phototalk.h (Adam Cadre) phtalkoo.h (David Glasser) recip.txt (Andrew Plotkin) recip2.txt (Andrew Plotkin) recipe.txt (Andrew Plotkin) ruins.inf (Graham Nelson/Roger Firth) ruinsplus.inf (Graham Nelson/Roger Firth) scenic.h (Roger Firth and Stefano Gaburri) sensory.h (Andrew Plotkin) Sorceror Sorceror.sol (Jacob Gunness) sp_web.txt (Andrew Plotkin) speed.inf (JRW) speed2.inf (JRW) spellb.txt spellb2.txt spellb3.txt Spellbreaker Spellbreaker.sol spellbreaker script stoner.txt (Andrew Plotkin) stub.h (Adam Cadre) tangle.z5 (Andrew Plotkin) Toyshop.inf (Graham Nelson) trinkets.txt (Andrew Plotkin) utility.h (L. Ross Raszewski) weath2.txt (Andrew Plotkin) weather.sol weather.txt (Andrew Plotkin) weather.z5 (Andrew Plotkin) zarcana.txt (Andrew Plotkin) zarfnot2.txt (Andrew Plotkin) zarfnote.txt (Andrew Plotkin) zNPC.h (JRW) zork.txt zork.z5 Also used in this production: Masterpieces of Infocom Zarfhome - http://www.eblong.com/zarf/home.html GMD IF Archive mirror - http://www.ifarchive.org The 1998 Xyzzy Awards transcript MaxZip by Andrew Plotkin DOS Frotz by Stefan Jokisch Inform for MacOS by Robert A. Pelak Inform for Win32 Apple Macintosh Performa 6400 Compaq Armada 4130T Coffee and electricity at METRO Espresso Bar"