Index: if-archive/games/competition97

This directory contains all the games, each one in its own directory, sorted by programming language.


6 Subdirectories

agt
alan
hugo
inform
jacl
tads

See Also

agt/emailbox

E-Mailbox v0.3 (beta), a true story based on actual events that occurred to a real individual, by Jay A. Goemmer

alan/leaves

Leaves, a Short Interactive Journey by Mikko Vuorinen, release 3

hugo/down

Down, by Kent Tessman, Release 1, 30sep97

inform/agb

A Good Breakfast, an Interactive Feeding by Stuart Adair. Release 2 / Serial number 971107

inform/bear

A Bear's Night Out, an Interactive Children's Story by David Dyte. Release 2 / Serial number 971011 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/bear.z5)

inform/cask

Cask, my first stab at Interactive Fiction, by Harry M. Hardjono. Release 1 / Serial number 970917

inform/congrats

Congratulations! by Frederick J. Hirsch. Release 1 / Serial number 970929

inform/edifice

The Edifice, an Interactive Allegory by Lucian Smith. Competition Release 1 / Serial number 970930 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/edifice.z5) [the walkthrough edifice.rec is linked to solutions/edifice.rec]

inform/erden

Travels in the Land of Erden: In Quest of the Adventure by Laura A. Knauth. Release 1 / Serial number 970930 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/erden.zip)

inform/friday

Friday Afternoon or: Escape from MicroSun, by Mischa Schweitzer. Release 1 / Serial number 970927

inform/home

Coming Home, A Simple Home Adventure by Andrew Katz. Release 1 / Serial number 970919

inform/house

Aunt Nancy's House, an Interactive Simulation. by Nate Schwartzman. Release 1 / Serial number 970906

inform/legacy

The Family Legacy, an Interactive Ghost (???) Story by The Tame Computer, Marnie Parker (aka Female Deer). Release 1 / Serial number 971011 Note: This game was withdrawn from the competition, but for historical reasons it stays here with the author's consent. Please play the game if you like and tell the author what you think.

inform/lest

Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit, an Interactive Fiction by Ian Ball and Marcus Young. Release 1 / Serial number 970929

inform/lost

The Lost Spellmaker, an Interactive Mission by Neil James Brown. Release 1 / Serial number 970927 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/lost.z5)

inform/mimesis

Sins Against Mimesis, an Interactive Theosophy by One of the Bruces. Release 1 / Serial number 970925 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/mimesis.z5 (compiled game file) and in games/source/inform/mimesis.zip (source code and makefile))

inform/newday

A New Day, by Jonathan Fry. Release 1 / Serial number 970929 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/newday.z5)

inform/pintown

Pintown, by Stefan Blixt. Release 1 / Serial number 970902

inform/pizza

Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza, an Interactive Errand by Michael Zey. Release 1 / Serial number 970929

inform/reflect

Symetry, a Matter of Self Trust by Rybread Celsius. Release 1 / Serial number 970925

inform/spring

She's Got a Thing for a Spring, an Interactive Dip in a Hot Spring by Brent VanFossen. Release 1 / Serial number 970926

inform/sylenius

Sylenius Mysterium, an Interactive Transcendence. by whomever wrote it. Release 1 / Serial number 970928

inform/tdragon

The Town Dragon, by David A. Cornelson. Release 2 / Serial number 970929

inform/tempest

The Tempest, an interactive performance by William Shakespeare. Release 3 / Serial number 970929

jacl/grail

The Unholy Grail, by Stuart Allen, release 1 NOTE: edit file "config" to point to your game file.

tads/aardvark

The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf, by Gary Roggin.

tads/almanac

Poor Zefron's Almanac: an interactive cross-genre romp by Carl W. Klutzke. Version 1.0, 30sep97

tads/babel

Babel, by Ian Finley.

tads/frenfive

The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, interactive fiction by Anonymous. Competition version. (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/frenfive.gam games/mac/frenfive.sit.hqx, and in games/pc/frenfive.zip)

tads/glow

Glowgrass, an Interactive Short Story by Nate Cull. Release 1

tads/savannah

Sunset Over Savannah, an Existential Vacation by Ivan Cockrum. Release 1.0, 30sep97 (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/savannah.gam)

tads/temple

Temple of the Orc Mage (level one), by Gary Roggin.

tads/vtech

VirtuaTech, by David Glasser, Release 1

tads/zero

Zero Sum Game, an Exercise in Fantastic Futility by Cody Sandifer. Release 1.

tads/zombie

Zombie! The Interactive Creepshow by Scott W. Starkey

7 Files

AcornJACL.spk [13-Oct-1997]

a quick port of the JACL engine to the Acorn RISC OS by Julian Arnold, so that Acorn users can play the JACL competition game

announcement.txt [04-Apr-1997]

Announcing the Third Annual Text Adventure Authorship Competition, Administered by "Whizzard" Gerry Kevin Wilson

comp97.z5 [09-Oct-1997]
IFDB entry
IFWiki: CompXX

The 'front-end' game for the 1997 competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith Release 3 / Serial number 971009

complete-results.txt [12-Feb-1998]

complete list of the results of the competition, by the vote taker, LucFrench

everything.zip [18-Nov-1997]
View contents
IFDB entry

all the entries in this year's competition in one package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option to preserve the original subdirectory structure.

official-results.txt [09-Feb-1998]

the results of the competition, by Gerry Kevin Wilson

read.me [11-Oct-1997]

Whizzard's note about this year's competition: read this to find out where to get more information