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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: E-Mailbox

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

alan/leaves
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Leaves (by Mikko Vuorinen)

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

hugo/down
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Down (game)

Down, by Kent Tessman, Release 1, 30sep97.

inform/agb
IFDB entry
IFWiki: A Good Breakfast

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

inform/bear
IFDB entry
IFWiki: A Bear's Night Out

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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: CASK

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

inform/congrats
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Congratulations!

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

inform/edifice
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The 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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Travels in the Land of 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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Friday Afternoon

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

inform/home
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Coming Home

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

inform/house
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Aunt Nancy's House

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

inform/legacy
IFDB entry

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 Note: This game was withdrawn from the competition, but for historical reasons it stays here with the author's consent.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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit

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

inform/lost
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The Lost Spellmaker

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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Sins Against 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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: A New Day

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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Pintown

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

inform/pizza
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza

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

inform/reflect
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Symetry

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

inform/spring
IFDB entry
IFWiki: She's Got a Thing for a 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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Sylenius Mysterium

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

inform/tdragon
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The Town Dragon

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

inform/tempest
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The Tempest

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

jacl/grail
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Unholy Grail

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

tads/aardvark
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf

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

tads/almanac
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Poor Zefron's Almanac

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

tads/babel
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Babel

Babel, by Ian Finley.

tads/frenfive
IFDB entry
IFWiki: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang

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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Glowgrass

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

tads/savannah
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Sunset Over 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
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Temple of the Orc Mage

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

tads/vtech
IFDB entry
IFWiki: VirtuaTech

VirtuaTech, by David Glasser, Release 1.

tads/zero
IFDB entry
IFWiki: Zero Sum Game

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

tads/zombie
IFDB entry
IFWiki: 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

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