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| | But, not everyone is http://www.pandoravenda.com/pandora-colares.html content possessing a thrown together, hodge-podge type of costume. http://www.pandoravenda.com/pandora-pulseiras.html Not everyone has the time for making their personal costumes |
| | | http://www.pandoravenda.com/pandora-granulos-do-ouro.html for ourselves and their whole family. Halloween screams for vibrant colors, scary outfits, |
| ==Game Releases==
| | http://www.pandoravenda.com/pandora-brasil.html ghoulish masks, and cartoon characters. you will seem around costumes that are sexy, scary, http://www.pandoravenda.com/pandora-granulos-de-prata.html cute, and devilish. They seem in dimensions to match plus-size adults, children costumes, men, babies, and pets. |
| ===April 2011 Game Releases===
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| * ''[[Trapped]]'' ([[Kate Barnard]]; 14-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[A Quest Only For The Noble]]'' ([[Jakob Gleby]]; 12-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[New Cat]]'' ([[Poster]]; 09-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Empty rooms]]'' ([[Kevin Lovegreen]]; 06-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Motel California]]'' ([[Doug Schwartz]]; 01-Apr; Z-code).
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| ====Speed-IF Jacket 4====
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| * ''[[The Dream-Trap of Zzar]]'' ([[S. John Ross]]; 16-Apr; Z-code 8).
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| * ''[[The Forests of Lachryma]]'' ([[Roger Carbol]]; 16-Apr; Z-code 5).
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| * ''[[Light Of My Stomach]]'' ([[David Fletcher]]; 16-Apr; TADS 3).
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| * ''[[Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower]]'' ([[C.E.J. Pacian]]; 16-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil]]'' ([[Marius Müller]] as Leaner Gilts, "Strangle" Lei, Gain Tellers and Slat Leering; 16-Apr; Z-code 8).
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| * ''[[Moondarkling: Elfboon]]'' ([[Sam Kabo Ashwell]]; 16-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Smoochiepoodle and the Bastion of Science]]'' ([[Carolyn VanEseltine]]; 16-Apr; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Spectrum (by Sandel)|Spectrum]]'' ([[Colin Sandel]]; 16-Apr; Z-code 5).
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| ====Spring Thing 2011====
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| * ''[[Bonehead]]'' ([[Sean M. Shore]]; 04-Apr; Glulx).
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| * ''[[Hallow Eve]]'' ([[Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.]]; 04-Apr; Glulx).
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| * ''[[The Lost Islands of Alabaz]]'' ([[Michael Gentry]]; 04-Apr; Glulx).
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| * ''[[The Promise]]'' ([[Sean Huxter]]; 04-Apr; Glulx).
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| * ''[[Wetlands]]'' ([[Clara Raubertas]]; 04-Apr; Glulx).
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| ===March 2011 Game Releases===
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| * ''[[My Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch]]'' ([[Divarin]]; 23-Mar; Glulx).
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| * ''[[Escape (by JB)|Escape Room]]'' ([[JB]]; 02-Mar; Z-code 5; French).
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| ====PAX East 2011 Speed-IF====
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| * ''[[Bored Ladders]]'' (Marius Müller as "Taleslinger"; 12-Mar; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Brain of the Night Guest]]'' (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine; 12-Mar; Z-code 8).
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| * ''[[Delusions Again]]'' ([[Duncan Bowsman]]; 12-Mar; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Digging Time!]]'' ([[J. Robinson Wheeler|Rob Wheeler]]; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
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| * ''[[Merk (game)|Merk]]'' ([[Jesse McGrew]] and [[Kate Matthews]]; 12-Mar; Z-code).
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| * ''[[The Right Tool]]'' ([[Christopher Huang]]; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
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| * ''[[A Scurvy of Wonders]]'' ([[Rob Dubbin]], [[Courtney Stanton]], and [[Darius Kazemi]]; 12-Mar; Z-code).
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| * ''[[A Shadow of Helpfulman]]'' ([[Clara Raubertas]]; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
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| * ''[[Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo]]'' ([[Jon Blask]] as "Roody Yogurt"; 12-Mar; Hugo).
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| ===January 2011 Game Releases===
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| * ''[[The Green Mountains]]'' ([[Clark Radwin]]; 16-Jan; Glulx).
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| * ''[[Safe (game)|Safe]]'' ([[Benjamin Wochinski]]; 09-Jan; Glulx).
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| * ''[[Necron's Keep]]'' ([[Dan Welch]]; 01-Jan; Glulx).
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| ====Even Newer New Year's Speed IF====
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| * ''[[Baby Uncle New Year]]'' ([[Jonathan Blask]] as "Roody Yogurt"; 29-Jan; Hugo).
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| * ''[[The day I hugged Ghandi!]]'' ([[Taleslinger]]; 08-Jan; Z-code).
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| * ''[[Starborn]]'' ([[Juhana Leinonen]]; 08-Jan; Z-code).
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| ''(See also [[Games Released in 2011]].)''
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| ==News and Reviews==
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| ===News and Reviews in April 2011===
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| * [http://adrift5.blogspot.com/2011/04/adrift-5-goes-beta.html ADRIFT 5.0.16 Beta], the first ADRIFT 5 version available to everyone, was released.
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| * The [http://spac.caad.es/IMG/pdf/SPAC_11_web-2.pdf eleventh PDF issue] of [[SPAC]] 2.0, the [[Spanish]] IF newsletter, has been published.
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| ===News and Reviews in February 2011===
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| * [[IF Theory Reader]] [http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/if-theory-reader/15050861], a new book by [[Kevin Jackson-Mead]] and [[J. Robinson Wheeler]] is published.
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| * [[Curveship]], a new [[authoring system]] by [[Nick Montfort]], was released.
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| ===News and Reviews in January 2011===
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| * [http://blackclock.org/blog/outside/2011/interacting-with-andrew-plotkin/ Interacting with Andrew Plotkin]. [[Andrew Plotkin]] interview by [[Byron Alexander Campbell]] for Black Clock.
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| * [[XYZZY Awards 2010]] begins its first round of voting. Four new awards have been added, two of them replacing Best Use of Medium.
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| ''(See also: [[News in 2011]], [[Reviews]], [[:Category:Publications|Publications]], [[:Category:Websites|Websites]], [http://ifurls.tumblr.com/ IF URLs], and [http://brasslantern.org/news/ Brass Lantern Game News].)''
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| ==Competitions & Contest News==
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| ===What's Hot===
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| * [[The Challenge]] (for ADRIFT games). Voting deadline: April 30, 2011, 11:59 PM. Organizer: [[Finn Rosenløv]].
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| * [[Grand Prix 2011]]. Voting deadline: May 1, 2011. Organizer: [[Maximilian Kalus]].
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| * [[Spring Thing 2011]]. Six games! Voting deadline: Sunday May 15, 2011, 11:59 PM EDT. Organizer: [[Greg Boettcher]].
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| ===Results of Recent Competitions===
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| (Most recent comps are listed first.)
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| * [[XYZZY Awards 2010]] ([http://xyzzyawards.org/ xyzzyawards.org]) had its awards ceremony on [[ifmud]] on February 26th. A record seven awards including Best Game went to ''[[Aotearoa]]'' ([[Matt Wigdahl]]; Glulx). Congratulations, Matt!
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| * [[Inventure 2011]]. A mini-competition on inverting / subverting IF puzzles and tropes. No entries were submitted. Organizer: [[Christos Dimitrakakis]].
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| * [[Ectocomp 2010]], an [[ADRIFT]] 3-hour comp for Hallowe'en. Winner: ''[[Pete's Punkin Junkinator]]'' ([[DCBSupafly]]). Organizer: [[Jason Guest]].
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| * [[16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition]] a.k.a. [[IF Comp 2010]]. 26 games! Winner: ''[[Aotearoa]]'' ([[Matt Wigdahl]]; Glulx). Organizer: [[Stephen Granade]].
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| * [[InsideADRIFT Summer Competition 2010]] (for ADRIFT games). Seven games. Winner: ''[[Aegis]]'' ([[Jacqueline H.]] as "Lumin"). Organizer: [[Ken Franklin]].
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| * [[IntroComp 2010]] had nine games! The winner? ''[[Tourist Trap]]'' ([[Iain Merrick]]; Z-code). Organizer: [[Jacqueline A. Lott]].
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| * [[2010 Spring Ting]] (for ADRIFT games by non-registered users of ADRIFT). Two games entered. Winner: ''[[Wes Garden’s Halting Nightmare]]'' ([[Jubell]]). Organizer: [[Po. Prune]].
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| * [[MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest 2010]] released 3 games. Winner: ''[[Time For Tea]]'' ([[kaibutsu]]; Z-code). Organizer: [[Deathalicious]].
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| * [[2010 AIF Mini-comp]]. Four games entered. Winner: ''[[Once Upon a Dream]]'' ([[Purple Dragon]]; Glulx). Organizer: [[A. Bomire]].
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| * [[@party competition]]. Two games entered. Winner: ''[[Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home]]'' ([[Andrew Plotkin]]; Z-code).
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| * [[CYOA competition]]. For [[CYOA]] games. No games released; competition was abandoned. Organizer: [[Aina Grey]].
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| * [[TWIFcomp]]: A competition for tweet-sized interactive fiction (up to 140 characters). Winner: ''[[GT by @|> by @]]'' ([[Aaron A. Reed]]; Z-code). Organizer: [[Jack Welch]].
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| * [[Grand Prix 2010]] for short German IF games. Winner: ''[[Ares]]'' ([[Michael Baltes]]; Glulx). Organizer: [[Maximilian Kalus]].
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| ===Upcoming Competitions===
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| Authors should be working on their entries for:
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| * [[2011 AIF Mini-comp]] for short [[AIF]] games. Submission deadline: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m. CST.
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| * [[IntroComp 2011]]. Intent deadline: May 31, 2011, 23:59 EST. Submission deadline: June 30, 2011, 23:59 EST. Organizer: [[Jacqueline A. Lott]].
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| * [[@party competition 2011]]. Remote entry deadline: June 13, 2011. Onsite entry deadline: June 18, 2011, 12:30 PM.
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| ''(See also: [[:Category:Competitions]] and [[:Category:Minicomp]].)''
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