I'm tempted to deduct an oogie for the names of the hero and the heroine, but nah, I'm not that mean.
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I'm tempted to deduct an oogie for the names of the hero and the heroine, but nah, I'm not that mean.
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Finally, a happily ever after for the nerd turned sex doll and her horny Roman general!
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On Tuesday, my friend Ashleigh and I went on a one-day vacation field trip to The Pinball Wizard Arcade in Pelham, NH. After buying a paper cup of tokens at the front desk, we meandered around playing whatever caught our eye, which included (among others) Arkanoid, Gauntlet Legends, Sailor … Keep reading →
From snobby nerd babe to Roman warlord's sex show main attraction! Read all about it!
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The plot of this story can be summed up as follow: YES! NO! YES! NO! YES!...
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An illusionist and a theater owner, ooh. But don't get too excited, it's not happening.
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Why have a Chinese heroine flailing in 1920's England, if the author is going to just turn her into a Chinese Bridget Jones?
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It's always disappointing to come across a story with so much wasted potential.
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This isn’t a practical guide. I’m mostly not going to discuss tools, or schools, or techniques, and I won’t discuss how to get greenlit by Steam or featured in Polygon or afford your booth at PAX. Or get a job at Bethesda. (Though I wouldn’t mind a job at Bethesda. … Keep reading →
After last Thursday’s article, Andrew Plotkin pointed out that I could have been using rules instead of activities. From his intfiction.org post:
“It will be simpler and take less overhead if you have a “rule” column and a bunch of one-off rules:
Code:Table of Caleb … Keep reading →
I'm a bit lost especially during the first few chapters, but what the heck, PARTY CITY!
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Go watch The Omen or something - it'd be much better than this dreary waste of time.
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The author wants to be a mystery author now. I guess, but her mysteries are straight out of clown school.
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The only thing burned here is my poor brain. Oh, and my money too, let's not forget that. #BBHMM
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With its so typical story line and characters, this clumsily written and laborious read isn't worth the effort.
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This post will discuss the code structure of 18 Rooms to Home: Room 15. It will not discuss anything except the code structure, so there aren’t any spoilers – but if you’d prefer to avoid all discussion whatsoever, this is a good post to skip.
Also, this post will … Keep reading →
One-minute men, one-minute stories. Both are the same, do not engage unless you're really bored.
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Yes, this is nowhere as good as the other book. But it can still cut my heart up into pieces.
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Cherry Tree High Comedy Club is a cute little game that follows the adventure of Miley, a high school student on a quest to rebuild her school’s once great comedy club with the help of her friend Harriet and anyone else she can rope into her scheme. Cherry Tree High I! My! Girls! is a […]
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It is such a fun story with a good dose of angst... until the heroine decides to end up with the hero.
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This guest post was written by Bruno Dias. If you want to hear more from him, check him out on Twitter or his website. Her Story (Sam Barlow) is a difficult thing to classify, because it’s premised on a clever hop across medium boundaries. We’re used to talking about interactive fiction as a near-synonym of interactive […]
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According to the PokĂ©dex, Magikarp is about 0.9 meters long, but Gyarados is 6.5 meters long. So once it evolves, it can’t fit in a duck pond any more.
Maybe that’s why Gyarados is always bad-tempered.
Here's a display of how messy things can be when romance tropes are callously misused.
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This one is not quite there yet. The basic premise is fine, but the execution is in shambles.
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There are times when these folks sound more like Sarah Brightman that Sarah Brightman does these days.
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If this has been longer, maybe it'd be better. As it is, well, it's just okay.
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The story is meant to be suspenseful, but the heroine behaves like it's a boring field trip.
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Who knew working in constructing the Empire State Building is this frightening?
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Perhaps it is inevitable, but these Marvel superhero movies are starting to have a by-the-numbers feel.
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One fun story, one below average story.
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Hi there!
We have been quite busy last days planning all the development and production of THE FRANKENSTEIN WARS. We have scheduled every task in order to get this gamebook as soon as possible.
There’s a lot of work to do, so a long summer with long workdays awaits us. Dave sent us tons of documents from Frankenstein’s Legions, Paul is already structuring the story while here, in the Cubus headquarters, we’re accurately defining every detail that will be implemented into the Cubus Engine.
We’re really excited with this project!
Thank you, folks!
Hardly any story here, just drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, and drama.
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I released Room 18, 17, and 16… promised there would be 18 updates total… thanked people for sending bug reports… admitted I’d misscoped the project… said I didn’t want to space rooms more than 3 weeks apart… and now it’s been radio silence for … Keep reading →
Gape in horror-awe as the author demonstrates how to turn a solid read into a horrific one within the last 50 pages.
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A TBR Challenge 2015 review. A violinist humps his composer girlfriend 24/7 while her poor depressed brother can't catch a break.
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And such a big bore for Mrs Giggles.
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The most useful built-in testing tool for ChoiceScript is the randomtest system.
But randomtest is becoming unusable for me. My game is choice-dense, and each time I run randomtest, it shows me every choice made by the random generator. Which means the recommended 10,000 iterations produce a result over … Keep reading →
Why, oh, why does this have to be a romance story? Especially with that wuss of a hero?
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This is an actually pretty standard naughty fantasy story. Only, tentacles!
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And I'm the happiest of them all, because this story is so cute!
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This post-natural disaster romance has an interesting start, but it wastes little time in sputtering out of steam.
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Warning: This post discusses violence, transphobia, mental illness, and sexual assault.
Every now and then, I ditch my plans for the day because I have something I need to talk about right now. Rainbows and Dance Parties! was written on a day like that. This post was written on … Keep reading →
I may have to take back most of the things I've said about the author in the past.
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A lot of things here need to be iced, starting with that heroine.
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In addition to “up up down down left right left right B A”, contra dance is a form of New England folk dance. It’s a partnered dance performed in long lines of paired couples, described here on Wikipedia in more detail than I’m going to get … Keep reading →
Wait, didn't Harlequin push Jeannie Lin out the door? Anyway, hello again, welcome back.
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But there is no logic to keep me happy, alas.
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Alaska Thunderfuck, glamtron alien, versus Alaska, the comedy queen turned AAA Girl. Who will emerge the victor?
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Haven't I heard this album before? Twice?
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If you want your fond memories of the early movies to be violated to pieces, then yes, watch this one.
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Well, at least the cast members are so pretty to look at.
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The author has the ball rolling with sexual tension and comedy, so of course she shifts gears to romantic suspense. Sigh.
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The author goes back to "0% woo-woo" historical romance mode, but the romance is barely there.
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Whom do I have to sacrifice chickens to, to turn this into an urban fantasy and not an icky romance?
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The website did grow one new feature relevant to IFComp entrants between the seasons: You may now, if you wish, specify your intfiction.org forum handle as part of your ifcomp.org user account.
If you are an entrant to this year’s competition, then registering your handle this way will allow the organizers to more quickly grant you access to the forum’s annual authors-only sub-forum, which appears around the comp’s entry deadline. As it’s not a public space, IFComp entrants can and do use this sub-forum to chat freely about the comp with each other and with organizers during the six-week judging period in October and November. (The rules otherwise forbid public discussion by authors about entries during these weeks.)
To set your forum handle via ifcomp.org if you already have an account there, simply visit your account page and fill in the appropriate form field. Otherwise, you’ll have an opportunity to provide your forum handle while setting up a new ifcomp.org account. If you don’t have a forum account now, you can always return and fill in your handle once you do.
Two years back, someone asked me to review some Inform 7 code and make some bugfixes. I opened the source in question, updated it to the latest version of Inform, cracked my knuckles, and loaded up the bug list.
I read the first bug.
I stared at the source code.
… Keep reading →It should have been a bit longer.
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Recently my editor asked me to review Bionic Heart 2, either because she really enjoyed my review of the first game or actually hates me with a passion, possibly because I’ve started coming over to her apartment 5 out of 7 days of the week and encouraging her fiancĂ© to steal her socks. I told […]
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The day has arrived once again: the twenty-first Annual Interactive Fiction Competition is now open for entry registration and prize donation. Please visit www.ifcomp.org to learn all about the competition and register entries.
We just installed a new schedule page, but the most important two dates for entrants at this point are these:
All intents to enter must be submitted by September 1 (11:59 PM, Eastern time).
All games must be submitted by September 28 (ibid).
As always, we welcome any inquiries you may have about the IFComp via email: ifcomp@ifcomp.org. You may wish to follow the IFComp on Twitter, as well.
Last year was the first under new management in quite some time, so the IFComp has seen a few rules or structural changes since July 1, 2014. Among the most important ones to note:
The competition instituted a code of conduct policy last fall. It’s very short, and applies to all participants; if you haven’t read it yet, please do.
Relatedly, our friends at the IF Forums also implemented a code of conduct, and have taken a more proactive stance towards moderation since this time last year, with the aim of making the forums a more welcoming discussion space for all IF fans and creators.
Authors’ publicly discussing their entries before the start of the judging period is now explicitly allowed. (Note that the rule barring any pre-judging public release of an entry, whether full or partial, remains in effect.)
Authors will be able to update their entries as soon as the competition begins. This facility exists to fix flaws discovered in one’s work after judging begins; it is not intended to allow continued development post-deadline. The IFComp has not changed its stance that authors should not submit incomplete work to the competition.
Authors can now preview their games’ online appearance via the website.
Finally, it’s time to build the prize pool again! The IFComp welcomes prizes of most any form or magnitude. If you’d like to donate a prize to the pool, please contact the organizers.
This is a pleasant little surprise, but the last few chapters are a big let down.
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