University of Michigan Dearborn

This is a list of the University of Michigan-Dearborn CIS 487/587 games. From that page, you may play the games on-line, view the source code, or download the story files for each game.

These games were written as one of the class assignments. In 2006, the instructor was Associate Professor Bruce Maxim. His personal webpage is here. The IF assignment page is here. The game Metagame! from 2002 describes the assignment this way:

This assignment will give you an opportunity to write a piece of interactive fiction. This will involve creating both a virtual world and a story in which the player must overcome conflicts to achieve goals and win the game.

Unless otherwise indicated, all games are written in Inform 6 for the Z-code platform. The first games written in Inform 7 were in 2006.

1999

The following 4 games were released in 1999:

• Dreams: A Ross Adventure (Jon Schmoll and Ken Nelson).
• Examination (Tom Beadle).
• FrankenPuter (Kirk R. Goodell).
• Petition Quest (David Ruthinowski).

2000

The following 17 games were released in 2000:

• Adventures in Fruit Garden (Muki Soomar).
• Alien Rescue (Haridas). Missing.
• BeerQuest : Hartwick Pines State Park Drink-a-thon (Eric Reasons and Bryan Jager).
• Cheezy (Mike Baker).
• Escape from Shady Pines Retirement Home (Michael Westra).
• Escape from the Space Pirates (Mark Lee).
• Honey Quest (Jianrong Huang).
• Lonely Traveler (Don McDonald).
• The mad school house (Arthur Nugent).
• Moil (Anonymous).
• Mystical Pyramid (Jeremy Eden).
• Pub Crawl (Ferrell). Missing.
• Rotten Robbie (Burrows and El-Assad). Missing.
• The Takeover (Andrew Silveri).
• Tomb of Depression (Richard Avery).
• UMD Tribulations (Presnell). Missing.
• Wonder House (Ali Darwiche).

2001

The following 8 games were released in October 2001:

• Demon Hunt (Michael Cowles).
• Fortune Hunter (Denise George).
• The Gates Escape (Mike Agius).
• Haunted House (Scheidel). Missing.
• Lymon's Adventure (Justin London and Pran Mukherjee).
• Monty Bing and his Search for the King (Scott Stella).
• Search for the Sorcerer's Stone (Aimee Walls).
• Silicon Quest (Nidal Bazzi).

2002

The following 13 games were released in October 2002:

• The bully (Christopher L. Williams).
• Clue (Jeff Lundberg and Maxim Mass).
• The Demon of Sumaria (Jamal El-Mokadem).
• Escape From Uberstein (Brian Munzenberger).
• George Constanza : Looking for Love (David Carver).
• Immortal Majesty (Craig Foucher).
• Lost? (Jeremiah Condon).
• Metagame! (Rami Hamadeh).
• Monkeys Stole my Pants! (David Nowell).
• Onimusha Warlords (Man K. Woo).
• Rough Night (Christopher Furton).
• Space Escape (Ansolis).
• Vendetta (Shaun West).

2003

The following 17 games were released in October 2003:

• untitled (David Calhoun). Listed at UMD site as David's Game.
• Delta Force: Terror on 5th Ave. (Roman Kocherovsky).
• Deric's Big Adventure (Cunningham).
• A Divine Errand (Jonathan Christ).
• Escape (Jessica Gruden).
• Escape from the banana prison (Adam Lepczak).
• Escape from Zanzabar's Dungeon (Austin Krauss).
• FarmCraft (Sergey Zabelin).
• Fly the Plane (Don Barnes).
• Freshman Registration (Vaughn).
• Harry Potter and Triwizard Cup (Dennis Shelton).
• Hungry Hungry Hobo (Steve Blossom).
• Interview with the Headhunter Part 1 (Steven Lomibao).
• The lights went out in the Mid-west (Mitchell Dodes).
• Monday Morning (Bryan Suarez).
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail (John Mysliwiec, The Majestic Moose, and Pumping Llama).
• The Tomb of Erdrick (Jack Leich).

2004

The following 11 games were released in October 2004:

• The Big Treasure Hunt (L. Wayne Pawley).
• Escape from Sanctuary (Arsalan Siddiqui).
• Friggin' Wizzard (Pugh).
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors (Dan Mui).
• Man's Worst Nightmare (Amanda Yaklin).
• The Mansion: Grandma Mild's Weekend of Telekinesis (Robert Chynoweth).
• Moooooooooo!! (Peter Olejnik).
• The Secret of the Bologna Temple (Charlie Cross).
• System Administrator Takes the Day Off (Paris York).
• The TV Isn't Working, D'oh!!! (John Hamill).
• Weekend Mischief (Mark Schnake).

2005

The following 25 games were released in October 2005:

• Ali and his Search for his Father (Shamel Hadi).
• Aqua Flyer (Robert Rak).
• Bad Night (Daniel Fick).
• Brainfreeze (Dustin Kelley).
• The Cabin (Lucian Blebea).
• Captive (Lydia Mauti).
• Dead in the Water (Nicholas Mezza).
• Escape from Shalegate (Nicholas Zakhar).
• Escape from the sixth floor (Jonathan Stoffer).
• Escape of the Prince (J. P. Baugh).
• Escape the Eternal Tower (Michael Choppa).
• Hattori Hanzo's Escape (Brian Clark).
• The Island (Steve Myslinski).
• The Last Ninja (Eric Nelson).
• The Last Roman (Cooper).
• Life Goes On (David Odell).
• Looking For A Fortune (Hassan Mehanna).
• Magic Star (Scott Tluczek).
• Operation Rescue (John Andzelik).
• The Projector of Maxim (Matthew Ferrante).
• Something to do in a library (Schroeder).
• Stealing Candy From A Baby (Artur Seitllari).
• Stole Your Bike! (Chris Lesnieski).
• Tyrant (Justin Lado).
• Worthy Witch (Amy Hedges).

2006

The following 24 games (another game was removed from IFWiki by request of the author) were released in October 2006:

Inform 6

• The Adventures of Bobo the Monkey (Pat Handy).
• The Alchemist's Home (Mike Manard).
• Breakout (Peter Wilkins).
• CASL Rush (Walker).
• Contrived Text Adventure Game (Alan Batsford).
• Death at Sea (Roger Davis).
• Grounded (Justin Lado).
• The Knight Trials (Pete Kinnunen).
• Lost Space Colony: Infestation (John Gaffrey).
• The M Adventure (Don Lonser).
• Master Thief (Brian Rodriguez).
• Neighbor from Hell (Rich Hojnacki).
• Ogre Woes (Michael Berryman).
• Old Man Simmons (Mark Leich).
• The Quest for the Sword of 1000 Truths (Carl Saenz).
• Sneaky Game (Jim Nardecchia).
• Stranded (Jorden Lowe).
• The Testing (Joseph Brogowski).
• You're Fired (Aaron Stokes).

Inform 7

• Disaster at the Acme Tower (Ryan Beehler).
• Escape from the CIS Building (Nick Martineau).
• Merlin's Treasure (Nicholas A. Crabtree).
• Project Seed (Chris Pieprzak).
• The Three Rooms Game (Jason Sabada).