IFCollab

IF Collaborators List

Nicholas Daley of New Zealand is the list's founder and original maintainer. The list was then taken over by Jay Goemmer for several years, and is now maintained by Mike Snyder on the IF-Wiki.

This is a list of people who are willing to work with others to create Interactive Fiction. The most recently added or updated entries are listed in order by date.

Here, you can:

• Contact someone from the list, to collaborate on an IF project.
• Add, update, or remove your name and info by emailing Mike Snyder.
• Add, update, or remove your name and info by editing this page.

Note: As of 6/29/05, upon taking over as the list's maintainer, I noticed that much of the info may be out of date. I will contact everyone on the list, to request updated info (and, whether or not you still wish to collaborate). Please keep your info updated, either by editing this page, or by sending email to me so I can do it. Updated info should be moved back to the top, so that active collaborators are easier to identify. As information becomes stale, it should be moved down into the Dormant Collaborators section -- and eventually removed.

Current Collaborators

• Tommy Herbert -- 11 Aug 2004

Email: cavebloke@excite.com

Can work on: Programming, Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: I can program in Inform. Obviously the language doesn't matter if you're the coder.

Spoken Language: English

Misc: So far the only thing I've published is an entry in the 2004 IntroComp: "Auden's Eden." I do mean to finish the full version, and I'm working on an entry for the 2004 IF Comp. I think after these I'll be ready for a largish project, and a partnership might help keep down the time it takes to complete. I'd like to split both authoring and programming. I wouldn't enjoy just being the code-monkey for somebody else's text, but I'm perfectly willing to be the prose-monkey for somebody else's idea/design. I like strong plots or interesting places and tend to shy away from puzzle-fests. My favourite games are "Galatea," "Photopia," and "Spider and Web" -- like everybody else.

• John Menichelli -- 30 June 2005

Email: menichel@cox.net

Can work on: Programming, Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: Inform

Misc: I've beta-tested "Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina"; ported "Zork I" to Hugo; wrote "Not Just a Game," "Reverzi" (reversi/othello), and "ZTrek" for the Z-machine.

• Sylvain Veillette -- 11 Mar 2003

Email: sylvain@veillette.name

Can work on: Programming, Betatesting

Other: Puzzle design, French translation, proofreading French and English

Programming Systems Preferred: ALAN, Visual Basic

Spoken Language: French

Other Language: English

Misc: Would also like to program multimedia adventure. Logic oriented mindset so no problem with programming. Not much prose or plot development so looking for author for equal share of fun and profits. ;-)

• Zachary Hutchinson -- 13 Jan 2003

Email: menschenfresser@rcn.com

Can work on: Programming, Authoring

Programming Systems Preferred: TADS

Spoken Language: English

Misc: Competent TADS programmer (key word is competent, not fast). Long time writer. I have ideas for several projects, and have started work on two. But I am looking for someone who'll bring their own ideas to the table. Collaboration on all levels (i.e. programming & authoring) wanted. Willing to work on initial idea which isn't my own.

Dormant Collaborators

• Douglas Harter -- 17 Dec 2002

Email: djharter@aol.com

Can work on: Programming

Programming Systems Preferred: AGT, TADS, Hugo, Quill/PAW

Spoken Language: English

Home Page URL: http://www.winpaw.com

Misc: It's been a while since I worked in anything other than Quill/Paw, but I can get back into it. Need authoring help in a game based on sci-fi author Philip Jose Farmer's "World of the Tiers" series.

• Mike Sousa -- 15 Dec 2002

Email: mjsousa@attbi.com

Can work on: Programming, Authoring, Betatesting

Programming Systems Preferred: TADS for programming, any other for beta-testing and/or authoring.

Misc: Have released a TADS game, beta-tested several others. Willing to help where I can.

• Ben Kalman -- 14 Dec 2002

Email: kergillian@hotmail.com

Can work on: Programming, Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: Inform

Misc: I'm mainly looking for someone to help write/program a game I'm working on. I'm also willing to collaborate on other people's works/designs, or beta-test any game in Inform or TADS.

• Trevor Burdick -- 12 Dec 2002

Email: kluge@stny.rr.com

Can work on: Programming, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: TADS

Misc: Open to all testing and programming.

• Mike Duncan -- 12 Dec 2002

Email: mduncan@pobox.com

Can work on: Authoring, Programming

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: HTML-TADS

Home Page URL: http://www.weeklylowdown.com/mikeduncan

Misc: Plenty of ideas, questionable programming skills. Entered "Fusillade" in Comp '01. Also willing to contribute music to an already-written game.

• Mark Silcox -- 12 Dec 2002

Email: marksilcox@sprynet.com

Can work on: Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: ADRIFT & TADS

• Gil Williamson -- 12 Dec 2002

Email: gil@amazonsystems.co.uk

Can work on: Programming, Authoring

Programming Systems Preferred: I'm working on the germ of an idea to deliver Myst-like adventures over the Internet, using HTML, Javascript and Java. Or, even, Flash. Home Page URL: http://www.amazonsystems.co.uk/

Misc: I am a fan and author of text adventures from 'way back. I'm buzzing with ideas, looking to pioneer this Myst-ish "multimedia" approach, and I need to exchange help and inspiration from artists, musicians and authors with time to spare. I started the work in 2001, but it has lain fallow since from lack of someone to bounce it off, and I suspect I'd need to start again.

• David Cornelson -- 5 Oct 2002

Email: david.cornelson@iflibrary.com

Can work on: Designing a game.

Ideas: A ton.

Programming Systems Preferred: Inform, but if you code it, I don't care.

Misc: I have one large work-in-progress and many many ideas for other games. Sadly, I have no time to write or code IF. I do however feel like I can design an excellent game with the right programmer and writer. I am now seriously open to a collaborative effort.

• Robert C. Cipriani -- 30 Sept 2002

Email: rcc02k@fsu.edu

Can work on: Authoring, Betatesting

Programming Systems Preferred: TADS

Misc: Starting with IF, looking to hone my creative writing skills, etc.

• E. Stoy -- 6 Sept 2002

Email: stoy@zapo.net

Can work on: Programming, Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: Inform

Misc: I'm a new-ish Inform programmer, especially interested in complex NPCs, but I don't have the skill to build them yet. I'd like to find a programmer who can listen to my compiling woes and help me with basic skills as well as "can I do this?" theory. Will betatest and proofread just about anything.

• Jonathan Penton -- 22 July 2002

Email: unlikely@flash.net

Can work on: Authoring, Betatesting

Ideas: Yes

Programming Systems Preferred: No programming skill, so no preference.

Home Page URL: http://www.unlikelystories.org

Misc: I'm a writer of conventional literature who'd like to get into IF authoring.

• Walter Sandsquish -- 23 June 2002

Email: sandsquish@aol.com

Can work on: Programming, Authoring

Programming Systems Preferred: ALAN

Misc: I'm looking for a partner to brainstorm, design, write and program with. I'm fine with any genre except sword and sorcery.

• Stephen Norris -- 4 May 2002

Email: srn@fn.com.au

Can work on: Programming, Betatesting

Ideas: No ideas at present.

Programming Systems Preferred: Inform only.

Misc: Lots of programming/testing experience. Prefer more of a simulationist approach to IF. Keen to use the ORLibrary in a real game.

Links

• IF Collaborators List - this page
• Offer suggestions to Mike Snyder, the list's present maintainer