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Game Releases

May 2011 Game Releases

2011 AIF Mini-comp

2011 AIF Mini-comp released 7 games on 19-May:

• Ashley's Story (Rip_CPU; Z-code).
• Buffy: Before the Date (Archer; ADRIFT 3.9).
• Last Horizons (GoblinBoy; TADS 2).
• The Princess and the Dragon (RogueAIF; TADS 3).
• Redskirt II: Another Piece of the Action (Begferdeth; Z-code).
• SS Whore (The Blue Satyr; ADRIFT 4).
• The Wingman (Dark Horse; ADRIFT 3.9).

Indigo New Language Speed-IF

Indigo New Language Speed-IF released 10 games on 07-May:

• The Blue Death (Otto Grimwald; textallion and txt2cyoa; Web browser);
• The Cavity of Time (Sam Kabo Ashwell; Undum; Web browser);
• Haunted House (rockersuke; Z-code).
• In Memory (Jacqueline A. Lott; ADRIFT 4).
• IN-D-I-GO SOUL (Roody Yogurt; Alan 3).
• Indigo (Emily Short; TADS 3).
• The Matter of the Monster (Andrew Plotkin; Undum; Web browser);
• The Singular Adventure of the Indigo Violet (David Fletcher; Curveship).
• Painting the Rainbow (Royce Odle; TADS 3).
• The Price (ChrisC; ChoiceScript; Web browser).

April 2011 Game Releases

• Trapped (Kate Barnard; 14-Apr; Z-code).
• A Quest Only For The Noble (Jakob Gleby; 12-Apr; Z-code).
• New Cat (Poster; 09-Apr; Z-code).
• Empty rooms (Kevin Lovegreen; 06-Apr; Z-code).
• Motel California (Doug Schwartz; 01-Apr; Z-code).

Speed-IF Jacket 4

• The Dream-Trap of Zzar (S. John Ross; 16-Apr; Z-code 8).
• The Forests of Lachryma (Roger Carbol; 16-Apr; Z-code 5).
• Light Of My Stomach (David Fletcher; 16-Apr; TADS 3).
• Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower (C.E.J. Pacian; 16-Apr; Z-code).
• The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil (Marius Müller as Leaner Gilts, "Strangle" Lei, Gain Tellers and Slat Leering; 16-Apr; Z-code 8).
• Moondarkling: Elfboon (Sam Kabo Ashwell; 16-Apr; Z-code).
• Smoochiepoodle and the Bastion of Science (Carolyn VanEseltine; 16-Apr; Z-code).
• Spectrum (Colin Sandel; 16-Apr; Z-code 5).

Spring Thing 2011

• Bonehead (Sean M. Shore; 04-Apr; Glulx).
• Hallow Eve (Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.; 04-Apr; Glulx).
• The Lost Islands of Alabaz (Michael Gentry; 04-Apr; Glulx).
• The Promise (Sean Huxter; 04-Apr; Glulx).
• Wetlands (Clara Raubertas; 04-Apr; Glulx).

March 2011 Game Releases

• My Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch (Divarin; 23-Mar; Glulx).
• Escape Room (JB; 02-Mar; Z-code 5; French).

PAX East 2011 Speed-IF

• Bored Ladders (Marius Müller as "Taleslinger"; 12-Mar; Z-code).
• Brain of the Night Guest (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine; 12-Mar; Z-code 8).
• Delusions Again (Duncan Bowsman; 12-Mar; Z-code).
• Digging Time! (Rob Wheeler; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
• Merk (Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews; 12-Mar; Z-code).
• The Right Tool (Christopher Huang; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
• A Scurvy of Wonders (Rob Dubbin, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi; 12-Mar; Z-code).
• A Shadow of Helpfulman (Clara Raubertas; 12-Mar; Z-code 5).
• Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo (Jon Blask as "Roody Yogurt"; 12-Mar; Hugo).

January 2011 Game Releases

• The Green Mountains (Clark Radwin; 16-Jan; Glulx).
• Safe (Benjamin Wochinski; 09-Jan; Glulx).
• Necron's Keep (Dan Welch; 01-Jan; Glulx).

Even Newer New Year's Speed IF

• Baby Uncle New Year (Jonathan Blask as "Roody Yogurt"; 29-Jan; Hugo).
• The day I hugged Ghandi! (Taleslinger; 08-Jan; Z-code).
• Starborn (Juhana Leinonen; 08-Jan; Z-code).

(See also Games Released in 2011.)

News and Reviews

News and Reviews in April 2011

• Issue #60 of SPAG (April 25, 2011) - includes a write-up of the IF Demo Fair 2011; SPAG Specifics for Gigantomania; interviews with Simon Christiansen, Jason McIntosh, Iain Merrick, C.E.J. Pacian, Colin Sandel & Carolyn VanEseltine, and Matt Wigdahl; the Action Flow Chart for Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home; and reviews of Death Off the Cuff, Gris et Jaune, The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, Starborn, and the book Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7.
• ADRIFT 5.0.16 Beta, the first ADRIFT 5 version available to everyone, was released.
• The eleventh PDF issue of SPAC 2.0, the Spanish IF newsletter, has been published.

News and Reviews in February 2011

• IF Theory Reader [1], a new book by Kevin Jackson-Mead and J. Robinson Wheeler is published.
• Curveship, a new authoring system by Nick Montfort, was released.

News and Reviews in January 2011

• Interacting with Andrew Plotkin. Andrew Plotkin interview by Byron Alexander Campbell for Black Clock.
• XYZZY Awards 2010 begins its first round of voting. Four new awards have been added, two of them replacing Best Use of Medium.

(See also: News in 2011, Reviews, Publications, Websites, IF URLs, and Brass Lantern Game News.)

Competitions & Contest News

What's Hot

• The Challenge (for ADRIFT games). Voting deadline: April 30, 2011, 11:59 PM. Organizer: Finn Rosenløv.
• Grand Prix 2011. Voting deadline: May 1, 2011. Organizer: Maximilian Kalus.
• 2011 AIF Mini-comp. 7 games. Vote by around June 2nd or 3rd? (Someone please tell us when the voting deadline is! And who's the organizer? Please and thank you.)

Results of Recent Competitions

(Most recent comps are listed first.)

• Spring Thing 2011. Six games! Winner: The Lost Islands of Alabaz (Michael Gentry; Glulx). Organizer: Greg Boettcher.
• XYZZY Awards 2010 (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!
• Inventure 2011. A mini-competition on inverting / subverting IF puzzles and tropes. No entries were submitted. Organizer: Christos Dimitrakakis.
• Ectocomp 2010, an ADRIFT 3-hour comp for Hallowe'en. Winner: Pete's Punkin Junkinator (DCBSupafly). Organizer: Jason Guest.
• 16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition a.k.a. IF Comp 2010. 26 games! Winner: Aotearoa (Matt Wigdahl; Glulx). Organizer: Stephen Granade.
• InsideADRIFT Summer Competition 2010 (for ADRIFT games). Seven games. Winner: Aegis (Jacqueline H. as "Lumin"). Organizer: Ken Franklin.
• IntroComp 2010 had nine games! The winner? Tourist Trap (Iain Merrick; Z-code). Organizer: Jacqueline A. Lott.
• 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.
• MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest 2010 released 3 games. Winner: Time For Tea (kaibutsu; Z-code). Organizer: Deathalicious.
• 2010 AIF Mini-comp. Four games entered. Winner: Once Upon a Dream (Purple Dragon; Glulx). Organizer: A. Bomire.
• @party competition. Two games entered. Winner: Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• CYOA competition. For CYOA games. No games released; competition was abandoned. Organizer: Aina Grey.
• TWIFcomp: A competition for tweet-sized interactive fiction (up to 140 characters). Winner: > by @ (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code). Organizer: Jack Welch.
• Grand Prix 2010 for short German IF games. Winner: Ares (Michael Baltes; Glulx). Organizer: Maximilian Kalus.

Upcoming Competitions

Authors should be working on their entries for:

• 2011 AIF Mini-comp for short AIF games. Submission deadline: Monday, May 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m. CST.
• IntroComp 2011. Intent deadline: May 31, 2011, 23:59 EST. Submission deadline: June 30, 2011, 23:59 EST. Organizer: Jacqueline A. Lott.
• @party competition 2011. Remote entry deadline: June 13, 2011. Onsite entry deadline: June 18, 2011, 12:30 PM.

(See also: Category:Competitions and Category:Minicomp.)