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IFComp 2012: Signos

Posted November 8, 2012

Signos is the sole entry this year written in Quest. I had trouble getting this to run on my machine, even with a fresh install of what I believed to be the latest Quest interpreter. I probably still had the wrong version for this game somehow, but I gave up trying, because there was a simpler option: play it online. That’s actually been an option for most of the games this year: the ability to play games through a web browser instead of downloading an interpreter seems to be simply part of what an IF system has to do now.

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IFComp 2012: Kicker

Posted October 31, 2012

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A sports game! Will my general ignorance of sport be my undoing again? Spoilers follow the break.

IFComp 2012: The Island

Posted October 24, 2012

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And now we have this year’s sole work in TADS. Spoilers follow the break.

IFComp 2012: The Sealed Room

Posted October 22, 2012

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And now for this year’s sole game written in Alan. As usual, I’m playing the games in a randomized order, but the singletons seem to be all clumped together. Spoilers follow the break.

IFComp 2012: Living Will

Posted October 21, 2012

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And finally I get to the browser-based CYOA stuff, but not yet to the Twine: this one’s in Undum, same as last year’s third-place winner, The Play. Spoilers follow the break.

IFComp 2012: Irvine Quik & the Search for the Fish of Traglea

Posted October 20, 2012

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This is this year’s sole Adrift game. Spoilers follow the break.

IFComp 2012: Shuffling Around

Posted October 19, 2012

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Our next game is by one Ned Yompus, but I strongly suspect that this is a pseudonym, for reasons that will shortly become clear. Spoilers follow the break.