PAX East 2011 Speed-IF

The seventy-first Speed-IF, with no particular name, took place at PAX East 2011 in Boston on March 12th, 2011. The organizer was David Cornelson. Topics were chosen via a madlibs in the early afternoon. Authors had until 10:30pm to send their games to the organizer.

Premise

Topic List included:

• A character whose name starts with the letter 'M'
• Sending Jim and Kevin on a mission to locate something
• The Tomb of the Unknown Tool
• A 100 year old typewriter
• Pluto
• Braintree or Alewife
• One of the titles on the poster of made up titles (online version of the poster: http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/generatorposter.html)
• Chicken fingers
• Explosions
• Vacuum

Entries

• Bored Ladders ("Taleslinger"; Z-code).
• Brain of the Night Guest (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine; Z-code).
• Delusions Again (Duncan Bowsman; Z-code).
• Digging Time! (Rob Wheeler; Z-code).
• Merk (Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews; Z-code).
• The Right Tool (Christopher Huang; Z-code).
• A Scurvy of Wonders (Rob Dubbin, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi). Inform 7 source code; play in browser or download the ZBLORB here.
• A Shadow of Helpfulman (Clara Raubertas; Z-code).
• Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo ("Roody Yogurt"; Hugo).

Links

• PAX East 2011 Speed-IF - at IFDB.
• Download or view contents of SpeedIF_PAX_East_2011.zip, at the IF Archive. All the games entered in this speed-if.
• Download the games from the speedif directory (dead link 🔍) at Textfyre.

Spoilers

• ClubFloyd transcript.

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