GAME LIST

GAME LIST
A Non-Interactive List of Inform Games
No Copyright (c) Brendon Wyber 1995.
Ported to 1997 by Neil Brown, using Brendon's source code.
Release 5 / 971015 / !Edit v1.44

CONTENTS
Part One - Preamble
Part Two - Summary
Part Three - Released Games
Part Four - Games In Development

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PART ONE - PREAMBLE
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This is an update of the Inform games list previously created and updated by
Brendon Wyber. It contains details of all known games created with Inform,
but does not claim to be complete or 100% accurate. If you find any mistakes
in this document, or any omissions, please send the details to the address
below. Also, authors are encouraged to send 'blurbs' for their own games; my
own efforts are rather lacklustre.

[email protected]

Please note, while some games only available as source code are listed,
others have been omitted as being too small or insignificant. In particular
I am refering to the files within the directory below. (Eg Alice Through
the Looking Glass part one, by Gareth Rees, a simple tutorial file.)

ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/examples/

For further information about Inform, try the official Inform WWW page. This
is maintained by Graham Nelson, Inform's creator, and covers such topics as
game design and the mechanics of the compiler.

http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/inform.html

Newcomers are advised to download the document how_to_play_these_games.txt
by Gareth Rees, available in the 'if-archive/games/infocom' directory.
Although a little out-of-date, it is still helpful if you are unsure how to
obtain an interpreter to read the game files listed, and explains the
differences between version numbers 3, 5 and 8. The document suggests that
there are no version 8 games available, but this is no longer true, as you
will be able to see in the summary list below.

Contributions and comments supplied by:
Sarinee Achavanuntakul Graham Nelson
Matt Ackeret Paul O'Brian
Douglas C. Atkinson Robert A. Pelak
Julian Arnold "NotPhill"
Giles Boutel Mike Phillips
Charles Briscoe-Smith Andrew C. Plotkin
Adam Cadre Fredrik Ramsberg
Robert M. Dickau Gareth Rees
Jon Drukman Robert Smith
Phil Darnowsky Mark Tilford
Christopher E. Forman Andrew "Dancer" Vesperman
Neil K. Guy Dan Yu
Charles Mangin
Joe Mason

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PART TWO - SUMMARY
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Below is a brief summary of games included in this list. They can all be
downloaded for no charge; however, one or two may have special registered
versions available for a small fee, which include extra features or help.

Competition entries have been incorporated into the main list - these are
usually separate from the normal 'infocom' games directory, stored in either
'competition95' or 'competition96', but any updated versions will be
found in 'infocom'. The most recent version is listed below.

Categorisation has proved quite controversial, judging by the responses on
the newsgroup rec.arts.int-fiction. Any players or authors who violently
object to the categories the games have been given are welcome to contact me
with a view to changing them.

(Titles beginning with 'The' or 'A' are ordered by the first letter of the
following word - eg 'The Path To Fortune' is filed under P for Path.)

Title - Product Title
Z - Z Version
Rel - Release Number
In - Inform build number
Lib - Library Version
#Ob - Number of objects in game
#Dic - Number of dictionary entries
Kb - Size of data file
S - Released with source code
C - Competition entry for 199- (eg 6 would be for 1996)

Title__________________________ Z Rel SN____ In__ Lib_ #Ob #Dic Kb____ S C

- ARCADE GAMES (not interactive fiction, but using Inform format)
Freefall 5 2 951111 5.5 5/12 4 0 3584 S
Robots 5 5 951120 5632 S

- COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY GAMES
All Quiet on the Library Front 5 2 951204 1502 5/12 76 510 72704 5
Busted 5 4 941223 1402 5/7 154 515 82944
Christminster 5 4 961117 1502 5/12 394 1276 228352 S
Ditch Day Drifter * source code only. Translation, not finished.
Frozen: A Night at the Lab 5 1 960620 1502 5/12 78 422 63488
Night at the Computer Center 5 1 961118 1502 5/12 122 462 74752 S
Paper Chase 5 1 950503 1405 5/9 70 434 57344 S

- COMEDY / HUMOROUS / PARODY
Bedlam 5 1 970711 6.05 6/2 78 455 59392
BSE 5 3 970110 6.03 6/1 110 594 89088
Candy 5 1 970621 6.11 6/4 50 376 59392
Detective 5 101 960831 1502 5/11 79 313 105984 S 5
I-0 5 4 970307 6.05 6/2 306 914 178688
Inhumane 5 2 **** 1405 5/8 108 409 68096
Night of the Vampire Bunnies 5 3 970506 6.12 6/5 131 416 76800 S
Phlegm 5 3 970804 6.05 6/2 97 510 70656 S 6
Pick up the Phone Booth & Die 5 619 960409 1502 5/12 17 299 44544
Pick up the Phone Booth & Die2 5 2 961017 1502 5/12 60 357 65024
Piece of Mind 5 3 970819 1502 5/12 106 500 105984 6
Promoted! 5 1.1 970707 6.05 N/A 293 7 124928
Ralph 5 6 970610 6.13 6/5 64 480 67072 6
Tube Trouble 5 0 950901 1502 5/11 42 354 50176 5
The Underoos That Ate New York! 5 1 970329 6.11 6/4 55 346 58880 S
The Wedding 5 4 970602 6.05 6/2 177 829 151552 S

- DETECTIVE
C.I.A. Adventure 5 1 961218 6.13 6/5 102 372 54784 S
Gumshoe 5 1 960331 1502 5/12 232 778 143360

- FANTASY / MAGIC / YE OLDE DAYES (not necessarily all of those)
Adventure 5 5 961209 6.05 6/2 ??? ??? 97280 S
Adventureland 5 1 961111 6.05 6/2 106 398 49152 S
Balances 5 5 961216 6.05 6/2 100 459 75264 S
Curses 5 16 951024 1600 5/12 502 1348 259072
The Ice Princess (demo) 5 8 960901 6.03 6/1 194 603 84480
Liquid, a Viking's Funeral(PQ1) 5 1 960927 1502 5/12 70 379 68608 6
The Meteor, the Stone and a
Long Glass of Sherbet 5 2 961216 6.10 6/3 230 886 174592 6
Mini-Zork I 3 34 871124 N/A N/A 179 535 52216
Odieus Quest... 5 1 941021 1403 ??? 83 469 31983 S
Of Forms Unknown 5 3 970206 6.11 6/4 178 509 91136 6
The Path To Fortune 8 5 960828 1502 5/11 525 1069 320000
Quest 4 the Magic Healing Plant 5 2 960613 1502 5/12 72 357 52736 S
So Far 8 6 961218 1502 5/12 484 1080 300032
SpAdventure 5 1 961205 6.05 6/2 289 740 102400 S
SpiritWrak 5 3 960606 1502 5/12 817 1112 260096
Stargazer: Prologue 5 1 961015 1502 5/12 60 418 61952 6
Tryst of Fate 5 205 970629 6.13 6/5 359 871 165888
Wearing the Claw 5 3 970327 1502 5/12 111 701 130048 6
Zork: Undiscovered Underground 5 16 970828 6.13 6/2 180 607 102912

- HISTORY
Jigsaw 8 3 951129 1600 6/1 511 1756 304640
Jigsaw_Game 5 3 951129 1600 6/1 511 1756 262144
Jigsaw_Footnote 5 3 951129 1600 6/1 16 294 64000

- HORROR
Fear 5 1 961012 1502 5/12 181 652 102400 6
The House of the Stalker 5 1 960930 6.03 6/1 86 478 75776 6
Rippled Flesh 5 1 960914 1502 5/12 137 494 83456 6
Theatre 5 2 951203 1502 5/12 396 922 185856

- MODERN DAY - games involving tasks possible in the modern day
The Acorn Court 5 3 970904 6.13 6/5 63 343 55296
Baltimore:24 5 2 970706 6.13 6/3 56 342 58368
Heist 8 3 971005 1502 5/12 555 1878 357888
Looking For Godot 5 1 960599 1502 5/12 43 378 49152
Nine Points 5 12 961127 1502 5/12 54 412 74752 S
Reverberations 5 1 961015 1502 5/12 85 533 100864 6
Vindaloo 5 1 960613 1502 5/12 74 408 53248 S

- ODDITY
Cheater 5 1 960920 1502 5/12 27 333 48640
Competition '96 5 1 970626 6.13 6/5 96 428 84992
Dejavu 3 1 930921 634 N/A 43 253 22500
Inform Games list 8 1 971008 6.14 6/7 143 294 84480
Lists and Lists 5 3 960823 1502 5/12 34 340 116224 S 6
The Magic Toyshop 5 1 951018 1502 5/11 61 433 73216 S 5
Museum of Inform 5 1 951220 1600 6/1 176 576 71168 S
Silence of the Lambs 5 2 971010 6.14 6/7 25 298 47104
Toyshop 5 3 951221 1600 6/1 60 395 47616 S
Z-Life 5 3 960121 1502 ---- N/A ---- 6656 S

- SCIENCE FICTION
Delusions 5 3 970113 1502 5/12 202 1006 181248 6
The Mind Electric 5 3 941008 1502 5/11 55 417 70656 5
The Resident 5 ?? 970908 6.13 N/A 288 2 136704
Return To Karn 5 2 961207 6.05 6/2 274 615 165888
Time: All Things Come To An End 8 7 970521 1502 5/12 572 1464 378368

- UNCLASSIFIED
A Change in the Weather 5 6 960613 1405 5/8 70 435 93696 5
In The End 5 1 961010 1502 5/12 121 666 106496 6
Mercy 5 1 970829 6.13 6/5 118 504 92160
The Space Under the Window 5 2 970402 6.11 N/A 114 175 31744
Tapestry 5 1 961010 1502 5/12 211 546 185344 6
Time Killer#1: Claustrophobia 5 1 950925 1502 5/11 40 364 52224

- COMPETITION 97 ENTRIES (not yet sorted into categories)
Aunt Nancy's House 5 1 970906 6.13 6/6 175 546 72704 7
A Bear's Night Out 5 1 970924 6.14 6/7 153 511 105984 7
CASK 5 1 970917 6.11 6/4 44 365 59392 S 7
Coming Home 5 1 970719 6.13 6/5 83 373 71168 S 7
Competition '97 5 2 971008 6.14 6/7 148 539 103424
Congratulations 5 1 970929 6.13 6/5 45 342 56320 7
The Edifice 5 1 970930 6.14 6/7 226 817 173568 7
The Family Legacy 5 1 971001 6.13 6/7 589 969 228864 7
Friday Afternoon 5 1 970927 1502 5/12 47 455 94208 7
A Good Breakfast 5 1 970921 6.14 6/7 326 573 137216 7
The Lost Spellmaker 5 2 970927 6.05 6/2 140 553 117248 7
M. L'Estrange/Trouble Spirit 5 1 970929 6.05 6/2 225 959 237056 7
A New Day 5 1 970929 6.13 6/6 168 590 121344 7
Phred Phontious/Quest for Pizza 5 1 970929 6.05 6/2 243 788 140288 7
Pintown 5 1 920902 6.13 6/6 154 463 97440 7
She's Got a Thing for a Spring 5 1 970926 6.13 6/6 222 1135 254464 7
Sins Against Mimesis 5 1 970925 6.14 6/7 205 532 87552 7
Sylenius Mysterium 5 1 970928 6.13 6/6 172 915 184320 7
Symetry 5 1 970925 6.14 6/4 53 330 58368 7
The Tempest 5 3 970929 6.14 6/7 133 478 155648 7
The Town Dragon 5 2 970929 6.14 6/7 189 502 107520 7
Travels in the Land of Erden 8 1 970930 6.05 6/2 682 1527 322560 7

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PART THREE - RELEASED GAMES
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The games in this list are sorted into the same order as in the summary. At
the end of each category, there is a list of games, detailed elsewhere, that
might be considered as well.

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* ARCADE GAMES *
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Title: Freefall
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/freefall.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/freefall.z5

A clever example of the Z-Machine being used for something it wasn't
intended to do - a TETRIS-style game.

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Title: Robots
Author: Torbjoern Andersson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/robots.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/example/
robots.inf

A version of the old Zombies game (also called Daleks on some machines).

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*COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY GAMES*
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Title: All Quiet on the Library Front
An Interactive Vignette
Author: Michael S. Phillips
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/library.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/library.z5
Also: Humour, modern-day.

As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out
of the library - unfortunately, it's hard to get, and is for reference
only...

Received 5th place in the 1995 contest.

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Title: Busted
Psychedelic Interactive Fiction (not to be taken internally)
Author: Jon Drukman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/busted.zip
Also: Humour, modern-day.

A game of high cunning and low humor.

This is an entirely original game, originally written in ADVSYS but
ported to Inform to increase its audience, and also to give myself
some practice programming Inform.

You play a university student on the verge of having a very bad day.
To tell more would be to spoil the game, so just download the file
(it's Version 5), plug it into your favourite Infocom interpreter and
blast off.
(Authors Blurb)

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Title: Christminster
An Interactive Conspiracy
Author: Gareth Rees
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/minster.tar.gz
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/minster.z5
Also: Modern-day, with fantasy elements.

When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him
at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you
imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is nothing more than
some esoteric bit of chemistry, and that you'll have a pleasant day out in
beautiful surroundings.

But when you get to Christminster, nothing is as you expect. Where has
Malcolm vanished to? What are the unpleasant Doctor Jarboe and the
positively repulsive Professor Bungay up to? And what do long-forgotten
alchemical treatises have to do with the modern day?
(Author's Blurb)

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Title: Ditch Day Drifter
Author: Michael J Roberts > Chris Markwyn
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/drifter.inf

A partial translation of the TADS example game with the major objects
completed but the puzzles still to do.

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Title: Frozen
A Night at the Lab
Author: Jeremy Farnham
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/frozen.z5
Also: Fantasy, science fiction.

You're working late at the computer lab in an attempt to finish the
assignment which is due in very shortly. Emerging from a daydream you
carelessly lapsed into, you are surprised to find that the whole world
around you has frozen in time...

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Title: Night at the Computer Center
An Interactive Nocturnal Chase
Author: Bonni Mierzejewska
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/night.tgz
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/night.z5
Also: Fantasy, modern-day, humour.

Someone has run off with one of the university's printers, and you, as a
computer lab technician, must retrieve it if you want to keep your job.

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Title: Paper Chase
Author: Chris Skapura
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/paperchase.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/paperchase.z5
Also: Modern-day, humour.

A port of a game originally listed in a BASIC TRS-80 magazine. You want your
college qualification - but red tape and unhelpful officials block your
progress.

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*COMEDY / HUMOROUS / PARODY*
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Title: Bedlam
An Interactive Preview
Author: Michael Zey
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/bedlam.z5

It's morning - time to drag yourself up and drive yourself over to the bar.
But where are your clothes, again? And where did you leave your keys?

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Title: BSE
An Interactive Epidemic
Author: Chris Smith
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/bse.z5
Also: Modern-day, fantasy and science fiction elements.

Strange things have been happening in Skebdale - and not just the BSE
crisis either. Rumours abound of devil-worshipping and all manner of
strange happenings. Can you, as the unfortunate soul dispatched by the
powers that be to investigate, unravel the mystery?

Came first in the 1996 Acorn User Interactive Fiction competition.

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Title: Candy
An Attempt at Reliving Childhood
Author: Rybread Celsius
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/candy.z5
Also: Modern-day.

An early, incomplete version. Your auntie's having a lie down upstairs,
which gives you the perfect opportunity to engage on your favourite pass-
time - looking for candy!

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Title: "Detective"
An Interactive MiSTing
Author: C.E. Forman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/mst3k1.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/mst3k1.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/mst3k1.inf
Also: (Loosely) Detective.

"C.E. Forman immortalises the work of Matt Barringer, showing just how well
a simple adventure system like AGT can be use to create truly memorable
interactive fiction.
<<Er, heavy sarcasm>>

Although the concept of this work may upset some, I found this genuinely
funny. This is a re-write of a rather poor game written long ago with
some witty and deliciously cruel comments by hidden reviewers. Based
off a MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000 TV show."
(Brendan Wyber's comments)

Was released with the source code and several documentation files.

Received 4th place in the 1995 contest.

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Title: I-0
the "jailbait on the interstate" game
Author: Adam Cadre
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/I-0.z5
Also: Modern-day.

You're Tracy Valencia, first-year student at the reasonably prestigious
University of Dorado. It's Thanksgiving Day, and you're driving home;
Daddy was perfectly willing to buy you a plane ticket, but like you
told him on the phone, there are much better things to spend the money
on. Birthday presents, for instance -- you turn eighteen tomorrow.
Besides, it's only a four-hour drive.

Two and a half hours into said drive, the car starts making a noise no
piece of machinery should ever make. It's the sort of sound a rhesus
monkey might make being forced down a garbage disposal. Now, Dorado is
nothing but scorching desert from the time you cross the coastal
mountains until you reach the river, but you've got to do something
about this noise. So you pull over -- and the car goes dead of its own
accord. You try to start it up again, but absolutely nothing happens.

You're stuck on the loneliest stretch of Interstate Zero,
miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to
noon and the temperature's well over a hundred and twenty. It's
beginning to look like Ed and Sandy Valencia's only
daughter might not make it for Thanksgiving dinner...
(Author's blurb)

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Title: Inhumane: An Intralogic Massacre
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/inhumane.z5
Also: Fantasy, oddity.

A parody of Infocom's Infidel, converted from an old basic program
written when the author was 15. To collect the treasure, you have to prove
to a mystical guardian what an awful adventurer you really are.

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Title: The Night of the Vampire Bunnies
An Interactive Adventure
Author: Jason Dyer, ported to Inform by Patrick Kellum
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/bunny.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/bunny_s.zip
Also: Horror.

Can you save your town from the curse of the terrible vampire bunny?

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Title: Phlegm
An Interactive Interactive
Author: Jason Dyer
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/phlegm/phlegm.z5

You've found it at last - the chest containing the Treasure of Phlegm. The
only problem now is how to get it down from that tree and open it. The
cannon may help, but where can you find gunpower, a cannon ball etc...?

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Title: Pick up the Phone Booth and Die
a NyQuil nightmare
Author: R. Noyes
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/bdemo.z5

Whatever you do, don't pick up the phone booth... or you'll die.

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Title: Pick up the Phone Booth and Die part 2
An interactive demo
Author: R. Noyes
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/booth2.z5

Remember, don't pick up that phone booth... but this one won't be as easily
smashed as the previous one.

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Title: Piece of Mind
An Interactive Short Story
Author: Giles Boutel
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/piece/piece.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/piece_v2.z5
Also: Humour.

Piece of Mind is a short, humourous work which uses the first person
'puppet' concept from Scott Adams and other early games and examines the
possible causes and consequences of being so controlled by the player.

On the way to insight into the protagonist's nature the player will come
across some parody (x-files, cheesy SF), some poetry (real and instant), and
perhaps even the odd moral dilemma.
(Author's description)

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Title: Promoted!
Author: Mike DeSanto, ported to Inform by J Steingraeber
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/promoted.z5
Also: Modern-day, oddity.

In your e-mail in-tray, notification of your promotion! Only trouble is,
everyone else has received that e-mail as well, and they are NOT going to be
happy. How are you going to transfer to your new office in time without
being lynched by your colleagues?

Promoted! is unusual in that it emulates the style of the Rexx-adventure
menu system, which the original game was written on.

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Title: Ralph
An Interactive Sniffing.
Author: Miron Schmidt
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/ralph/ralph.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/ralph.z5
Also: Modern-day, oddity.

It's a dog's life, literally. Your senses are steadily failing you, and you
can't for the life of you remember where you buried that bone...

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Title: Tube Trouble
Author: Richard Tucker
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/tube.z5
Also: Oddity.

You have been trapped in the underground system for what may be days or
even weeks - and you are desperately hungry. The chocolate machine is
playing up, and there's never a train when you want one.

Received 6th place in the 1995 contest.

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Title: The Underoos That Ate New York!
An Interactive Quickie
Author: G. Kevin Wilson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/under.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/under.inf

Maybe you should have shown more caution when that meteor came down in New
York, but how were you to know that it would make your clothes harder to
put on than normal?

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Title: The Wedding
An Interactive Family Headache
Author: Neil James Brown
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/wedding.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/wedding.zip
Also: Modern-day.

"You are cordially invited to the wedding of Malcolm and Deborah at St
Jude's Church, Westlowe at 2.30pm."

What should have been a simple task, watching your old flatmate Malcolm get
married, becomes an awful lot more complicated when it transpires that
Malcolm has disappeared mere hours before the service. You are called in by
one of the bride's aunts to sort out the problem. But how can you help?
Perhaps the answer to the problem lies somewhere within D'Arcy manor, the
bride's family home. The odd characters within may be able to help you.
First things first, though - how do you get past the nasty security guard?
(Author's Blurb)

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SEE ALSO > All Quiet on the Library Front, Busted, Night at the Computer
Center, Paper Chase, Reverberations, Vindaloo.
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*DETECTIVE*
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Title: C.I.A. Adventure
Author: Unknown -> Pete Wohlmut -> J Kevin Thomas
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/cia.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/cia.inf

Your job is to recover a valuable ruby that has been stolen by a secret
terrorist organisation.

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Title: Gumshoe
An Interactive Investigation
Author: Mike Oliphant
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Gumshoe.z5

As the owner of a debt-ridden detective agency in the 1920s, you have to
find some way of keeping afloat. The case involving suspected infidelity
should help with the finances, though...

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SEE ALSO > Detective, The Wedding.
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*FANTASY / MAGIC / YE OLDE DAYES*
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Title: Adventure
Author: Crowther and Woods > David Baggett > Graham Nelson
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/Advent.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Advent.z5
Categ: Fantasy / magic.

Graham's Inform port of David Baggett's TADS reconstruction of the
original adventure game that started it all.

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Title: AdventureLand
An Interactive Classic
Author: Scott Adams
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/Adventureland.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Adventureland.z5
Categ: Fantasy / magic.

A port of Scott Adams' classic AdventureLand game.

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Title: Balances
Author: Graham Nelson
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/Balances.inf
Game: ftp://fpt.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Balances.z5
Categ: Fantasy / magic.

Graham's homage to Infocom's Enchanter trilogy.

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Title: Curses
An Interactive Diversion
Author: Graham Nelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/curses.z5
Also: Modern-day.

As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home,
looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and
generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima is potting daisies
and sulking; the attics are full of endless distractions and secrets; Greek
myths, horoscopes, sixth-century politics, a less than altogether helpful
demon, a mysterious bomb plot, photography, ritual, poetry and a dream or
two all get in your way; and somehow you keep being reminded of your family
through the ages, and all its Curses...

..could it be that even you are Cursed?
(Author's Blurb)

"Curses was the first Inform game, and considered by many to be the finest
piece of Interactive Fiction written outside of Infocom. If you haven't
played it, why are you reading this? Download it now!"
(Brendan Wyber's comments)

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Title: The Ice Princess
An Interactive Fairy-Tale
Author: Ruediger Hanke
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/princess.zip

While watching the skaters, you see a beautiful woman, and attempt to follow
her. But she leaves the ice rink and disappears towards a forest...

(This is only a demo - the full game must be purchased from the author.
Details are in a text file within the zip archive.)

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Title: Liquid, a Viking's Funeral (Punkirita Quest One)
Author: Rybread Celsius
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/liquid/liquid.z5

A wizard has done fiendish things to a village, and you have to find a way
of stopping him.

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Title: The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet
The Interactive Memoirs of a Diplomat
Author: Angela M Horns (aka Graham Nelson)
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/sherbet/sherbet.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/sherbet.z5

Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the
breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she
weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their breast-plates red in
the setting sun, march ahead of the procession and protect you from seeing
anything unrehearsed. It's a dog's life being an Ambassador.
(Author's blurb)

Achieved 1st place in the 1996 contest.

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Title: Mini-Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Author: Infocom
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/minizork.z3

A small demo version of Zork, in the virtually redundant version three
format.

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Title: Odieus' Quest for the Magic Flingshot
Author: ? -> David Malmberg -> Teo Kwang Liak
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/odieus.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/odieus.zip

A port of an AGT game. Also this game was ported to TADS so it seems be
intended as a comparism between the two system.

(Needs to be decompressed with PKUNZIP, or any other software that can read
ZIP files.)

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Title: Of Forms Unknown
An Interactive Excursion
Author: Chris Markwyn
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/forms/forms.z5
Also: College-game, modern-day (in parts).

A game that starts off in a college dorm and moves on to a more magical
place.

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Title: The Path to Forture
(Vol. 1 of "The Windhall Chronicles")
Author: Jeff Cassidy / C.E. Forman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/windhal1.z8

You have been 'volunteered' to go on a quest for treasure in order to help
your village pay the annual taxes.

Takes place mainly in and around a village, and features the passing of time
and NPCs who go to sleep at certain times of the day.

(This is shareware. You can play this version of the game for as long as you
wish, but anyone who registers will receive a map and hints. Registration
details are within the game.)

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Title: Quest for the Magic Healing Plant
Author: Adam Crutchlow
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/mhpquest.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/mhpquest.inf

Your daughter is dying - you MUST find the magic healing plant before it is
too late.

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Title: So Far
An Interactive Catharsis
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/SoFar.z8
Also: Modern-day (in beginning).

One of the most popular IF games in 1996 (winning several XYZZY awards).
Sitting in a cramped theatre, anxious at the absence of someone close to
you, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a
place very different from your own familiar surroundings and provide the
opportunity to purge your troubled feelings...

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Title: SpAdventure
Not Really the Interactive Original
Author: W Crowther & D Woods -> D Baggett -> G Nelson -> Patrick Walton
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/spadvent.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/spadvent.inf

The Inform Adventure port changed to include spells of the type found in
the infocom Enchanter series (as well as Balances).

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Title: SpiritWrak
An Interactive Fantasy Adventure
Author: Daniel S. Yu
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/spirit.z5
Info: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/spirit.readme

Starts off in a monastery. Said to be a homage to Infocom's Enchanter
trilogy. (Description, anyone?)

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Title: Stargazer: Prologue
Author: Jonathan Fry
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/stargaze/stargaze.z5

You are bored of life in your underground world. Adventure, however, may
just be around the corner...

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Title: Tryst of Fate
An Interactive Horse Opera
Author: G. M. Zagurski
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/tryst205.z5

Your last trip up the stairs before you can relax in a nice hot bath brings
you into rather unfortunate contact with a toy car left carelessly on a
stair, and your head connects with the wooden banner near the top. As you
come to, things don't quite seem so humdrum as they used to be...

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Title: Wearing the Claw
An Interactive Fantasy
Author: Paul O'Brian
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/claw/claw.z5

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed
with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the
curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the mysterious island of
the Goergs. Uses the transformation to keep track of the player's progress
through the game.
(Author's description)

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Title: Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
Author: Marc Blank and Mike Berlyn, programmed by Gerry Kevin Wilson
Where: ftp://west.ftp.activision.com/activision/zork/legacy/ZTUUZ5.zip
Also: Humorous

A prequel to "Zork: The Grand Inquisitor", where you are sent to explore a
previously unnoticed part of the Great Underground Empire, and find yourself
trapped. What's more, the Grue Annual Convention is in full swing nearby...

(copyright Activision Inc 1997)

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SEE ALSO > BSE, Frozen: A Night at the Lab, Night at the Computer Center,
Piece of Mind, Theatre.
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*********
*HISTORY*
*********

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Title: Jigsaw
An Interactive History
Author: Graham Nelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Jigsaw.z8 ..or..
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Jigsaw_Game.z5
and ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/Jigsaw_Footnotes.z5
Also: Fantasy.

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century
Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music
and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly your ideal party
(especially as that rather attractive stranger in black has slipped back
into the crowds) - but cheer up, you won't live to see the next.
(Author's blurb)

Note there are two versions of this game. One version is a single file in
the unofficial Version 8 of the Z-Machine. The second version consists of
two files, in the more common version 5 format.

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SEE ALSO > Gumshoes.
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*HORROR*
********

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Title: Fear
An Interactive Nightmare
Author: Chuan-Tze Teo
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/fear/fear.z5
Also: Fantasy, modern-day.

The world is suddenly such a frightening place. People are out to get you,
surely, and everywhere there is danger, even here in your own home. Can you
rise above it all and conquer your fears?

This game came sixth in the 1996 competition.

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Title: The House of the Stalker
Author: Jason Clayton White
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive.games/competition96/stalker/stalker.z5
Also: Modern-day.

Things are bad. An escaped multiple killer is on the loose in your area.
What's even worse is that he might well be in your house. Or was that
smashing sound something to do with the cat? Perhaps you should investigate.

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Title: Rippled Flesh
An Interactive Goosing
Author: Rybread Celsius
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/ripflesh/ripflesh.z5

You wake, as a balding, plump middle aged man, in what appears to be a house
of horrors. How did you get here? What is going on?

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Title: Theatre
An Interactive Night of Horror.
Author: Brendon J Wyber
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/theatre.z5
Also: Modern-day (setting, not puzzles), fantasy.

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old
buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted
for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some prospective buyers,
you discover that you have left your pager behind. You quickly stop off
there, on your way out for the evening, to pick it up. However, at night,
you soon learn, the theatre's denizens are more than just rats and
spiders.

Now you find yourself trapped in a world of secrets and of shadows, while
a century-old evil awakens to hatch her nefarious plans. In order to
survive the horror and insanity, you must use all your wits and cunning,
and, to escape, you must solve the dark secret of the THEATRE!

THEATRE is a text only adventure game, similar to those written by Infocom.
(Author's Blurb)

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SEE ALSO > Delusions, Night of the Vampire Bunnies.
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*MODERN DAY*
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Title: The Acorn Court
An Interactive Text Adventure
Author: Todd S. Murchison
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/acorncourt.z5

A small one-room puzzle involving a tennis ball-throwing machine.

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Title: Baltimore:24
An Exercise in Interactive Fiction
Author: Howard A. Sherman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/balt24.zip

The server you maintain has gone down, forcing you to travel to Baltimore to
get it replaced by your supplier.

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Title: Heist
"The Crime of the Century"
Author: Andy Phillips
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/HEIST.z8

Your much-loathed uncle, a famous criminal, has died, and you attend the
funeral only out of a sense of duty. After the service, however, you are
given an unusual offer by a stranger acting on behalf of your dead uncle -
will you accept the challenge to pull off the crime of the century?

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Title: Looking For Godot
An Interactive Looking-Around-For-A-Lost-English-Book
Author: Patrick Shaughnessy
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/godot.z5

It's time to give back the copy of Waiting For Godot you have borrowed from
the library. But where did you put it?

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Title: Nine Points
A Demonstration of an Interactive Fiction Game
Author: Robert Janelle and Brad O'Donnell
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/starters/ninepts.z5

A very simple game aimed at being a gentle introduction to the world of
interactive fiction. Contains comprehensive instructions for beginners.

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Title: Reverberations
A Hectic Voltairian Adventure
Author: Russell Wain Glasser
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/reverb/reverb.z5

Surely it is too much to expect for you, a mere pizza delivery boy and
surfing fanatic, to foil the attempted escape of a notorious criminal from
custody, avoid numerous murder attempts, find the gang the criminal belongs
to and start up a romance with an attractive attourney?

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Title: Vindaloo
An Interactive Recipe.
Author: Adam G Crutchlow
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/vindaloo.inf
Game: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/vindaloo.z5

You wake up, feeling in just the right mood for a chicken vindaloo. You'll
have to find the ingredients and make it yourself, though. (Note: not
recommended for vegetarians or animal lovers !)

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SEE ALSO > All Quiet on the Library Front, BSE, Busted, Candy, The House of
the Stalker, I-0, Paper Chase, Promoted!, Ralph, Tube Trouble,
The Wedding.
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*ODDITY*
********

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Title: Cheater
An Annoying Adventure
Author: Martin Wesley Osam
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/cheater.z5
Also: Science fiction.

A small game in which the only way to win is to literally cheat. (Might be
difficult for players who aren't familiar with the Inform language.)

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Title: Competition '96
An Interactive Guide
Author: Lucian Paul Smith
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/comp96.z5

A hybrid of game and utility, designed to help in the process of rating
competition entries. See 'Comp97' in the Competition 97 category.

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Title: Deja vu
An Interactive Demonstration
Author: Graham Nelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/dejavu.z3

Written as a demonstration of the abilities of one of the very earliest
Inform compilers. Has a number of puzzles but no special winning state, and
the parser is a bit rusty. Interesting from a historical point of view.

(Note: the author has asked people not to email him with bug reports, as he
has no intention of updating the game. It is for historical interest only,
being the first Inform-compiled game in existance.)

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Title: Inform Games List
Author: Gunther Schmidl, based on list by Brendon Wyber/Neil Brown
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/igames.z8

A Z-code inform games list, partly based on this list, but using mainly the
author's own comments.

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Title: Lists and Lists
An Interactive Tutorial
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/lists.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/lists.tar.Z
Also: Fantasy.

A genie has taken it upon himself to teach you a slightly simplified version
of the computer language LISP.

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Title: The Magic Toyshop
A fun game for all the family
Author: Gareth Rees
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/toyshop.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/magic-toyshop.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/source/inform/magic-toyshop.inf
Also: Fantasy.

A one-location game, where you play someone who has entered a toystore
and plays against the shop assistant in a series of puzzle/games.

Received 3rd place in the 1995 contest.

[Not to be confused with Graham's Toyshop]

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Title: Museum of Inform
An Interactive Companion to the Designer's Manual
Author: Graham Nelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/examples/
museum.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/examples/
museum.inf

A demonstration of Inform's more complex features, but it's fun to play
with the various objects.

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Title: Silence of the Lambs
Author: Unknown TADS author, ported to Inform by Gunther Schmidl
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/lambs.z5

The lambs are particularly noisy. How are you going to crack this case and
become a top FBI agent?

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Title: Toyshop
Author: Graham Nelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/examples/
Toyshop.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform6/examples/
Toyshop.inf

Stuck in a toy store, you must find 5 fun things to do before you leave.
More a coding example, but fun all the same. (Source code available for
both Inform 5.5 and Inform 6.)

[Not to be confused with Gareth's The Magic Toyshop]

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Title: Z-Life
Author: Julian Arnold
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/examples/
z-life.z5
Source: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform5.5/examples/
z-life.inf

An implementation of 'LIFE', a cellular automata. Not a game, and very
little interaction, but interesting nevertheless.

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SEE ALSO > Ralph, Promoted!.
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*SCIENCE FICTION*
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Title: Delusions
An Interactive Self-Discovery
Author: C.E. Forman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/delusion/delusion.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/delusns.z5
Also: Horror

You have been assigned to the testing of a new virtual reality project,
boasting total sensual immersion. But how safe is it? How trustworthy are
the development team? And is there a bigger delusion lurking in the real
world?

This game came third in the 1996 competition.

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Title: The Mind Electric
An Interactive Vision
Author: Jason Dyer
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/mindelec.z5

Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a
disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind.

Received 2nd place in the 1995 contest.

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Title: The Resident
Author: Mike DeSanto, ported to Inform by J Steingraeber
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/residnt2.z5

An unusual futuristic story whereby you have been severely injured by an
attempt on your life, and have been plugged into The Web so that you won't
feel any pain. Uses the Inform simulation of the Rexx adventure engine -
a menu-driven command system.

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Title: Return to Karn
Author: Patrick Wigfull
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/karn.z5

A sequel to a televised "Doctor Who" adventure featuring the Fourth Doctor
and one of his old enemies. You have been instructed by the Time Lords to
retrieve the brain of Morbius; however, you're not the only recent visitor
to the planet Karn...

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Title: Time: All Things Come to an End
An original piece of Interactive Fiction
Author: Andy Phillips
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/tatctae.z8

After many years developing a time travel machine, the company has decided
to close the project down. If only you could get the machine to work, you
would be able to make a leap into the future to prove it's merits. But what
lies in the future may not be friendly or easy to deal with...

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*UNCLASSIFED*
*************

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Title: A Change in the Weather
An Interactive Short Story
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition95/weather.z5
Latest: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/weather.z5

Quite a popular game, where you play someone who is caught in a sudden
country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed.

Received 1st place in the 1995 contest.

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Title: In the End
Author: Joe Mason
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/intheend/intheend.z5

Your friend has just died, and life drags on. What is there left for you
now?

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Title: Mercy: a short story
Author: Chris Klimas
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/mercy.z5

Smallpox has returned to the world with a vengence, and centres have been
set up to allow people to die with some form of dignity, or failing that,
with the minimum amount of suffering. You are a doctor at such a centre,
yourself infected with smallpox, and nothing seems to matter any more...
except for the smile of a woman called Leslie.

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Title: The Space Under the Window
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/sutwin.z5

A new, experimental type of interactive fiction with no puzzles and no
verbs. The story changes depending on what you choose to focus in on.
Considered by some to be 'interactive poetry'.

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Title: Tapestry
An Interactive Destiny
Author: Daniel Ravipinto
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition96/tapestry/tapestry.z5

You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go
back and change crucial decisions, but you have been granted one, and must
go back and retackle the moral dilemmas you faced in your life.

This game came second in the 1996 competition.

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Title: Time Killer#1: Claustrophobia
A Time-Killer
Author: Sam Hulick
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/infocom/tk1.z5

A small game with elements from different genres.

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*COMPETITION 1997*
******************

[Note: As the competition is currently in full swing as I write, I have
refrained from giving the entries any sort of description.]

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Title: Aunt Nancy's House
Author: Nate Schwartzman
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/house/house.z5

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Title: A Bear's Night Out
Author: David Dyte
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/bear/bear.z5

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Title: CASK
Author: Harry H Hardjono
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/cask/cask.z5

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Title: Coming Home
Author: Andrew Katz
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/home/home.z5

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Title: Competition 97
Author: Lucian Smith
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/comp97.z5

A Z-code module to assist with the voting process. Creates a random list of
games based on what the player has determined to be playable, and also
accepts votes and generates a votes result file that can be e-mailed to the
vote counter. (More details within Comp97's help menu.)

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Title: Congratulations!
Author: Frederick Hirch
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/congrats/
congrats.z5

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Title: The Edifice
Author: Lucian Smith
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/edifice/
edifice.z5

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Title: The Family Legacy
Author: The Tame Computer (aka Marnie Parker)
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/legacy/
legacy.z5 **

** This game has been withdrawn from the contest. However, at the time of
writing, it still resides in the location given (and in many people's
collections).

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Title: Friday Afternoon
Author: Mischa Schweitzer
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/friday/
friday.z5

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Title: A Good Breakfast
Author: Stuart Adair
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/agb/agb.z5

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Title: The Lost Spellmaker
Author: Neil James Brown
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/lost/lost.z5

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Title: Madame L'Estrange and the Trouble Spirit
Author: Ian Ball and Marcus Young
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/lest/lest.z5

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Title: A New Day
Author: Jonathan Fry
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/newday/
newday.z5

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Title: Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza
Author: Michael Zey
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/pizza/pizza.z5

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Title: Pintown
Author: Stefan Blixt
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/pintown/
pintown.z5

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Title: She's Got a Thing for a Spring
Author: Brent VanFossen
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/spring/
spring.z5

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Title: Sins Against Mimesis
Author: "One Of The Bruces"
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/mimesis/
mimesis.z5

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Title: Sylenius Mysterium
Author: "Whoever wrote it"
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/sylenius/
sylenius.z5

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Title: Symetry
Author: Rybread Celsius
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/reflect/
reflect.z5

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Title: The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/tempest/
tempest.z5

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Title: The Town Dragon
Author: David A. Cornelson
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/tdragon/
tdragon.z5

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Title: Travels in the Land of Erden
Author: Laura A Knauth
Where: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/competition97/inform/erden/erden.z5

=============================================================================
PART FOUR - GAMES IN DEVELOPMENT
=============================================================================

And finally, what we can (hopefully) expect in the future. Some may fall
by the wayside, but that's life, and of course there are plenty more being
worked on in secret...

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Working Title: DJINN!
Author: Mike Phillips
Anticipated Release Date: When its done!
Authors Comment:
When I'm not working on next year's competition entry, I spend time
researching/writing a game called DJINN!, in which the player has to
recapture a Djinni once imprisoned by his grand-father but has since been
released to cause grievous harm to lots of people/places. Current
status: very sketchy; estimated release date: "When it's done".

(Note: although this entry has been in the list since early '96, the author
tells me that it's still being worked on.)

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Working Title: Stuck Mid-Game: A Weekend of Prolonged Frustration,
Author: Marnie Parker
Anticipated Release Date: Possibly some time in 1998.

Your on-line conversation with an electronic pen-pal is cut off when he is
kidnapped. You must discover who did it so you can find your buddy and get
that hint for an adventure game you were asking him about.

Stuck Mid-Game will be a very large .z8 game (approximately 350k) and may be
released as Shareware.

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Working Title: FLASHBACK
Author: Andrew "Dancer" Vesperman (author of the What IF Interactive-Fiction
series from the early 1980's).
Comment: Postponed indefinitely. May yet see the light of day but not in the
foreseeable future.

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Working Title: Stranded
Authors: Johan Berntsson, Frederik Ramsberg and Staffan Friberg
Anticipated Release date: Unknown (was 'mid 1997')

Stranded is currently in alpha testing, playable and winnable, but some
work remains to be done. We are aiming to make it feel "alive" in that the
other characters stroll around and do their jobs, and allow for fairly
complicated interaction. The game is currently (March '97) a 161Kb version
5 game file, and will probably end up over 200Kb. The vocabulary is likely
to be a bit more than 1000 words. Some details of its history and setting
can be found at
http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~d91frera/stranded.html

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Working Title: Gradeschool Armageddon
Author: Charles Mangin
Anticipated Release date: Unknown (was 'Summer 1997')

You awake tomorrow morning and find yourself once more in the fifth
grade. After your mother drops you off for school, you must survive seven
class periods of pure hell, try and remember some long division and
american history, and make it to your bus before it leaves at the end of
the day.

Its a good thing your best friend from the old days is there for comic
relief and to get you into more trouble than you could possibly get into
on your own.

Is that the first bell or the late bell? Where's your math class?

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Working Title: BERG
Author: Steven Hillen / Charlies Briscoe-Smith
Anticipated Release Date: Autumn '97

As the icy water sobers you up, you begin to remember what happened. You
were at the bar all evening. That was nothing unusual. You went for a
late-night stroll round the deck. Again, nothing out of the ordinary. You
normally take a breath of the clean, fresh arctic air before retiring to
your cabin. So why are you freezing cold and soaking wet? Now you remember:
the luxury transatlantic liner turned suddenly, and you staggered drunkenly
to the guard rail. You must have lost your footing and toppled clumsily
overboard.

BERG
An Interactive Adventure
Copyright 1994,1995,1996 by Charles Briscoe-Smith
Permission is hereby granted to everyone to redistribute this work provided
no modifications are made.
Release 1 / Serial number 960423 / Inform v1502 Library 5/12

In the sea
The icy water stings your eyes and roars in your ears. Your dressing gown
seems to be pulling you under the water. You shake your head and push the
hair from your face, gasping for air. Finally struggling free of the heavy
gown, you tread water and look around, shivering.

You are floating in the freezing waters of the arctic ocean. The only
interruption to the flat moonlit plain around you is a large, solitary
iceberg some distance in front of you.

It seems no-one noticed your departure.

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BERG was first published in Monitor magazine in 1987. It was written by
Steven Hillen in Atari Basic, and, compared with today's Inform games, was
pretty naff. Since it was presented as part of a series about programming
adventure games, the parser could handle indirect objects, but the room
descriptions were two-line affairs, the object descriptions were
non-existent, and the puzzles were either impossible or easy.

I'm now most of the way through converting the game to Inform. In the
process, I've improved the text somewhat, updated the mechanics, and
improved a few of the puzzles (where I've been able to think of better
ones!).

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Working Title: CRASHED
Author: Charles Briscoe-Smith
Anticipated Release Date: The far future

In this game, you are out flying with your friend Andy, who has just
gained his pilot's licence. While flying over the sea, you discover
that fuel has been leaking from the tank, and have to crash land on a
small and (apparently) uninhabited island. While you get away with
cuts and bruises in the violent landing, Andy comes off far worse. Can
you save his life and effect your rescue from the island?

CRASHED is in the early planning stages, and is likely to change a LOT
from the synopsis above. (In fact, the synopsis above is about as far
as I've got.)

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