The First Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest
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The First Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest
In order to get people (including myself) into writing some interactive fiction, I set up a challenge during the month of March to write an interactive fiction game like Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (most submissions in Inform). You can simply play the games or register to become an unofficial judge and vote on the games.
Although the contest is officially over, submissions are still welcome to the site (they just won't be eligible for consideration in the contest).
Congratulations to all who participated. I decrease my score by 5 points for all my homies who were destroyed by Inform's remarkably frustrating documentation.
In order to get people (including myself) into writing some interactive fiction, I set up a challenge during the month of March to write an interactive fiction game like Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (most submissions in Inform). You can simply play the games or register to become an unofficial judge and vote on the games.
Although the contest is officially over, submissions are still welcome to the site (they just won't be eligible for consideration in the contest).
Congratulations to all who participated. I decrease my score by 5 points for all my homies who were destroyed by Inform's remarkably frustrating documentation.
Inform's documentation was frustrating?
Anyway, I registered but didn't get around to doing any work on my idea, which involved the player being trapped in a cave, having to engineer increasingly complex Rube Goldberg-style accidents to happen to himself, which would be shown to a subverbal monster sitting on a jeweled throne for his amusement. The monster's standards would increase throughout the game, and if the player failed to cause him sufficient mirth he'd get up from his chair, find the player, and eat him.
I was thinking of calling it "Fark in the year 4170...."
posted by JHarris at 10:04 AM on April 1, 2009
Anyway, I registered but didn't get around to doing any work on my idea, which involved the player being trapped in a cave, having to engineer increasingly complex Rube Goldberg-style accidents to happen to himself, which would be shown to a subverbal monster sitting on a jeweled throne for his amusement. The monster's standards would increase throughout the game, and if the player failed to cause him sufficient mirth he'd get up from his chair, find the player, and eat him.
I was thinking of calling it "Fark in the year 4170...."
posted by JHarris at 10:04 AM on April 1, 2009
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posted by chrdrc at 2:21 PM on April 1, 2009
posted by chrdrc at 2:21 PM on April 1, 2009
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Whaaaa. Your existence makes no sense.
posted by Deathalicious at 3:12 PM on April 1, 2009
Whaaaa. Your existence makes no sense.
posted by Deathalicious at 3:12 PM on April 1, 2009
Deathalicious,
endless thanks for making this happen. Your contest inspired me to learn Inform 7 and spend a staggeringly solid month making a game, something I never would have done without your deadline. I hadn't written a text adventure in nearly twenty years - and to do it again in just four weeks - what a wild experience it was.
Much love.
posted by Izner Myletze at 7:08 PM on April 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
endless thanks for making this happen. Your contest inspired me to learn Inform 7 and spend a staggeringly solid month making a game, something I never would have done without your deadline. I hadn't written a text adventure in nearly twenty years - and to do it again in just four weeks - what a wild experience it was.
Much love.
posted by Izner Myletze at 7:08 PM on April 1, 2009 [1 favorite]
Deathalicious: cortex stole my vowels and wouldn't give them back.
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posted by ocherdraco at 9:21 PM on April 1, 2009
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posted by ocherdraco at 9:21 PM on April 1, 2009
H hain't a vowel.
posted by Deathalicious at 4:40 AM on April 2, 2009
posted by Deathalicious at 4:40 AM on April 2, 2009
Sometimes he was overzealous.
posted by ocherdraco at 4:51 AM on April 2, 2009
posted by ocherdraco at 4:51 AM on April 2, 2009
Congrats to everyone who (unlike me) ended up submitting something. I'll go through and play all of the games that were uploaded when I get a chance.
posted by burnmp3s at 7:55 AM on April 2, 2009
posted by burnmp3s at 7:55 AM on April 2, 2009
*looks forward to reading these*
posted by honest knave at 8:39 AM on April 2, 2009
posted by honest knave at 8:39 AM on April 2, 2009
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And of course thanks to those who managed to get games together in time for the deadline! I managed to make one room with a dumpster in it by the end of the deadline. Maybe next year I'll manage to get something playable together.
posted by bjrn at 7:54 AM on April 1, 2009