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The 2010 IntroComp

Ice Cream Jonsey — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:58:02 +0000

The IntroComp has nine entries this year. They are:

Adrien Saurat’s Plan 6 from Inner Earth (42kb, Zcode)
- Doug Jones’ For the Love of Ornery Blue Yaks (49kb, TADS2)
- Iain Merrick’s Tourist Trap (121kb, Zcode)
- Kevin Jackson-Mead’s Waker (355kb, Zcode)
- Lea Albaugh’s A Fleeting Case of Self-Possession, or, Memento Moratori (273kb, Zcode)
- M. M. Kathrel’s Closed Circles (230 kb, TADS3)
- Fiadotau and Bychkov’s Peanut Orchestra (7.1mb, WIN exe)
- Oliver Ullmann’s Fang vs Claw (514kb, Glulx)
- Robb Sherwin’s Cryptozookeeper (25.6mb, Hugo)

You can vote on these games! Let me quote the appropriate text:

[Voters may] vote on as many or as few entries as they like, on the usual 1-10 scale (10 being the best). However, they are asked to judge games with one thought in mind, and one alone: “How much do I want to play more of this entry?”

You can grab the games and read more about the competition here: http://www.allthingsjacq.com/introcomp/more.php.

Interview with Robb at Renga in Blue

Ice Cream Jonsey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:03:24 +0000

Jason Dyer, who runs Renga in Blue, was nice enough to conduct an interview with me at his site. You can check it out here! There are also lots of other articles there on IF which make for a great read.

Cryptozookeeper Pre-Hype

Ice Cream Jonsey — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:00:12 +0000

ICJ: Does this look like a game you would want to play? Pinback: As long as I don't have to look at that picture anymore.

Emily Short is doing a cover-art drive, for text games. There is an amazing resource called the Interactive Fiction Database. You can upload little icons for your text games. A lot of games never had this sort of thing, so she got artists together with the game makers, and much good has resulted. You can check out the gallery right here.

Cryptozookeeper, the game, isn’t done yet, but it won’t be too much longer. It’s on schedule, anyway! The look I was going for was that of the Grindhouse-style posters, that became a mini-meme recently when the movie Grindhouse was released. But I think it’s a good style to use for CZK. Enjoy! Unless you are Pinback, in which case, do not scroll down!