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The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)

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Re: The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)

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Post by abecedarius »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #11

I played a few of these recently (some on a phone which works better than you might think, but not great, even when you learn all the shortcuts of the specific app). There's various lists of good ones to try if you're new to the art form. Lost Pig I think was a good intro. I was already familiar with the general concept and so the "word magic" of "Counterfeit Monkey" was an excellent new mechanic that really tickled…

Seconding Lost Pig. It wasn't my first IF, but it seems a good choice for that role: funny and not too hard.

Re: The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)

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Post by scorpion_farmer »

https://ifdb.org/ is a much more usable collection of IF. Most of the games can be launched in browser, and there are user curated lists of games.

The IFcomp winners are a great place to start, most of these can be finished in a few hours: https://ifdb.org/viewlist?id=7w21plyc6kl74r7l

Re: The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)

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Post by rolph »

bcl wrote: post #22
apples_oranges wrote: post #16

This website would benefit from having an embedded dos box emulator so we can just run those files in the browser!

They link to playable versions on ifdb.org

yes, this is my vastly greater preference, running the original version.

i have bias against browser basing every thing, when we already have perfectly good desktops. the code for most "IF" is small and suitable for the functions a browser is capable of performing, but i just dont trust browsers as a consumption device. im older than dirt so i work with files locally, isolated from internet environment.

Re: The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019)

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Post by rolph »

akavel wrote: post #17

(Meta: I wonder if the (2019) suffix really makes much sense here? On one hand, the site says "since 1992"; then, in theory, the front page has a "last modified (...) 2019", but this is really only about the front page's content itself; and it's a front to an archive/database that is actively updated IIUC - would it make sense to link to wikipedia.org adding a suffix of when its front page was last modified? @dang?)

when i post suffix i use square brackets, i didnt use a suffix here as it is an archive thus covering historic material, or composed of factual information that is not expected to change or be revised. there is probably some tool for pulling a pages last update time, but where to put it in the mechanics of article submission?

wikipedia.org doesnt seem to have an entry for IFarchive.org but has a number of backlinks to IFarchive.org resources

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