There are rumblings that started a few months back regarding the necessity for competition IF games to be playable both online and offline. A growing number of web-based entries have been submitted to the annual IF comp over the years, not to mention the number of projects aiming to port popular runtime engines like Z-Code to browser-based languages like JavaScript and Flash.
Inform on TIOBE: It’s getting up there
I’m not sure which version of Inform it is, but it’s listed as the 71st most popular programming language on the TIOBE Index.
A mysterious adventure
Matthew Cangelosi’s A Curious Nightfall is a short platformer about a young girl who finds a mysterious pouch dropped by a bird. When she attempts to discover its contents, the earth beneath her cracks open and she falls into a mysterious world. She then sets out to return the bag to its rightful owner.
That effin’ punk
Playing through the AGS One Room-One Week (OROW) competition entries reminds me of that point in Samurai Showdown IV where the characters consume more than 75% of his life bars in order to gain more power. Some of the games produced in the comp have been pretty astounding, to say the least.
Take, for example, By the Numbers by Aki Ahonen.
Cryptozookeeper released
Necrotic Drift and Fallacy of Dawn author Robb Sherwin has finally released his latest piece called Cryptozookeeper.
Sherwin describes the game in an early interview as “basically a cross between Monster Rancher, Zork, and a good call on Coast-to-Coast AM.”
The game can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. It’s a hefty one at around 600MB (mostly because of the graphics and the music files).
Pow. Zoom.
Today I am resurrected to bring some good news from the interactive fiction front.
Andrew “Zarf” Plotkin’s Hadean Lands project on Kickstarter has went over the top in, as he himself reported it, Day 1. Seriously.
There’s some interesting discussion going on over at Emily Short’s blog, too.
The Operative Word is “Extreme”
Darius Poyer’s rein is a really short point-and-click adventure made in AGS where you play as one of the staff working in a secret research facility called Fraxtor 21. The story starts with the entire building collapsing around you, so you run and try to escape.
