They say IF authors have trouble self-promoting with a straight face.

This is true.

So, a *cough* humble announcement, as a large collaborative project I've been helping with finally hits release.

You've uncovered the mind-shattering secret of The Corn Identity. You kept enough of your wits about you to pull off An Escape to Remember. And then ( Read more... )

What it says in the subject: Blorple is up to version 0.4Blorple is an application for browsing interactive fiction collections. The is the first version that really does everything that was originally envisioned. However, in the meantime, a bunch of new requirements have shown up as development and beta-testing proceeded. So that's why this isn't ( Read more... )

So, first off, if you haven't heard, Inform 7 has a new release. This release updates the underlying Inform 6 libraries to 6/12N, which breaks a fair amount of my old hybrid code. But I'm not complaining, for two reasons:

• It's more time and space efficient; the new release version of my work in progress is actually smaller;
• The primary thing ( Read more... )

A bunch of updates since I last posted.

Nfrotz is up to 0.3.3 and can be found in the usual directory at the IF-Archive. More a feature release than a bugfix; this one lets you have a command history again. It's great having contributors.

Blorple is up to 0.3, and will launch IF works from the browser. It's still not quite at what I'd consider ( Read more... )

OK, so, first. There's a bugfix release of the NFrotz interpreter. It's been uploaded to the IF-Archive, but as that link won't be live for a week or two I have a local copy hosted as well.

If you use NFrotz, get this update. It fixes a rare memory corruption error, but I'm not at all sure it isn't exploitable ( Read more... )

It's been a goodly amount of time since its release back last August, so I've uploaded the source code to my interactive fiction game Weishaupt Scholars.

It is, naturally, packed with spoilers and the like, moreso than even a walkthrough would have. However, it's got a number of cunning tricks within it and so the Inform 7 programmers out there (I ( Read more... )

Like it says in the topic, I've made an official second release of Blorple. This is a browser for works of interactive fiction - it has become customary in this decadent age to package said works with cover art and blurbs and that sort of thing. There is exactly one interpreter that lets you look over this stuff without actually running the game ( Read more... )

One of the centers of the Interactive Fiction community has recently started a series of online group playthroughs of IF works. My game Weishaupt Scholars is the second one they played.

To quote from the transcript itself, it notes that it is a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of ( Read more... )

One of the things the interactive fiction community does is SpeedIF. In this enterprise, one writes a complete game, start to finish, in two hours. (There's a little give here, because really, who's going to notice, but still, that's the general rule.) A MadLib-style prompt is given and authors go to work writing them ( Read more... )

Weishaupt Scholars is complete.

It clocks in at around 53,000 words.

Although it's completed, it's not shelved by any stretch of the imagination; I expect to be doing maintenance releases for awhile, but they're going to be in the "every couple of months" way instead of the "every two days" way.