Interactive Fiction Competition 2016
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For all your playable book scenarios. And because using something that feels like the command line will annoy a certain rat, which is always fun.
Anyone come across this before (other than me)? Anyone going to play this year's round of stories when they land?
Anyone going to try to enter (other than me)? Time is not my friend, so starting now rather than nearer to the deadline.
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@Arantor That's some laaaaazy web design over there.
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@Maciejasjmj it's at least as spiffy as the previous iteration when Stephen Granade ran it.
But considering the general audience is people playing 1980s retro styled games... it's still spiffier than the white on blue I remember from Zork ;)
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@Maciejasjmj said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
@Arantor That's some laaaaazy web design over there.
I think you pissmelt "fuuuuuuuuuuuunctional".
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@Maciejasjmj it doesn't have a loading page/splash screen with a pulsating abstract logo, so it's good in my book
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@Arantor said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
And because using something that feels like the command line will annoy a certain rat, which is always fun.
I like text adventures.
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@blakeyrat and yet you hate the command line, how does that work?
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@Gąska I'm doing parser IF rather than CYOA simply because the story I have in mind requires a little less "on rails" than CYOA traditionally offers...
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@blakeyrat said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
@Arantor said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
And because using something that feels like the command line will annoy a certain rat, which is always fun.
I like text adventures.
Vimgolf should get you back to your normal
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@Arantor said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
@Gąska I'm doing parser IF rather than CYOA simply because the story I have in mind requires a little less "on rails" than CYOA traditionally offers...
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@Gąska so what exactly did I whoosh on? I are only of simple mind.
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@Arantor I was explaining how it's possible that Blakey both likes text adventures and hates command line interface.
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@Gąska except most text adventures do not fit into the CYOA category particularly well, and for someone who professes to be dyslexic (and I have no reason to doubt it), walls of text are likely to be somewhat unfun too.
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@Arantor I'm not sure I'd agree with that entirely (the bit about most text adventures not fitting into the CYOA category). If you cut out the aimless wandering about, I'd argue it's rare to find a text adventure that isn't, to all intents and purposes, CYOA. The plot progression points hinge largely on
> do action
in exactly the same way that a CYOA might.
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@tufty my main differentiation is that CYOA says "oh hey, you're here, you can do this thing, that thing or that other thing", then the result of your choice is explained before presenting your next choice.
I read many CYOA books as a kid, including some bizarrely themed ones (like a Sonic the Hedgehog one, and a Lemmings themed one), and every choice is a branch between two and four paths, often which converge back again. There is a real difference between that and giving the player some sense of free agency where their choices cannot (obviously) be boiled down to two-four choices per decision point.
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I read those last few posts wondering everyone was getting on about until I realized that in context CYOA ="Choose Your Own Adventure" and not "Cover Your Own Ass".
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@tufty Good ones aren't. Like Trinity or A Mind Forever Voyaging.
The introduction of A Mind Forever Voyaging still haunts me. Perry Simm. PerSim. Presim. PRISM.
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@Polygeekery I parsed it as 'Cover Your Obese Arse' for a couple of posts.
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@Arantor said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
a Lemmings themed one
I had that. It was good fun
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@Jaloopa said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
@Arantor said in Interactive Fiction Competition 2016:
a Lemmings themed one
I had that. It was good fun
@Jaloopa
I never read it, but it sounds like it just keeps going.
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@JBert only until you enable nuke mode, then the page changes to "Oh no" and self destructs in 5 seconds
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@Arantor did you ever play the Fabled Lands books? A series, each set in a different part of a fictional world, where you could move between them when you got to the border, and offered quite a lot of freedom.
My brother and I tried to find them a few years back but they've been out of print for some time. I think he eventually torrented PDF versions and printed them odd
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@Jaloopa nope, mine were the Fighting Fantasy series, the Grail Quest series and the oddments like the Sonic and Lemmings ones.
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I'm not likely to make it in for this year's competition - I was hoping to be largely done with the story by the end of August to spend September beta testing. But owing to I haven't had the time or energy, so I'm not nearly that far along.
That said...