Interactive Fiction Writing Month (Feb 15 – March 15)
This is the blag for Interactive
Fiction Month 2009, an attempt to lure beginners into learning Inform
through a series of easy tasks with concrete deadlines, and to promote
discourse on game design in general.
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Somewhere I’ve got one of the old Sam & Max disks, but other than reading good reviews, I’m not familiar with the series. Thanks for the note — I’ll keep an eye out for it.
In an interesting bit of coincidence, I was playing Episode 4 (titled “Reality 2.0”) of the new Sam & Max point-and-click adventure game on the Wii, and the game devolved into an IF game. The main premise was that Sam and Max had to go into this virtual reality MMO game to stop The Internet from ruining the world or something… but they end up destroying the MMO game, and the entire game reverts to a text prompt and some cheesy IF parody. You choose from a list of options (Go East, West, etc) rather than type, but it’s still a pretty effective approximation.
It was great, and made me think about when we coded an IF game for your class.
Anyways, if you have the time, I’m sure you’d enjoy checking it out. They released the game for the PC first, as monthly episodes, and then collected them on a disc for the Wii.