Oops…I didn’t see this intro sticky and I egotistically made my own thread. I’ve deleted that and copied the text here…
Hi everyone. I figured I should introduce myself. I’ve been a periodic fan of interactive fiction. When I was a kid, I wasted countless hours on Zork I-III on my family’s IBM PC Jr. before eventually getting seduced by the graphics of games we could run on our lightning fast 75Mhz Pentium computer.
In high school, I rediscovered IF and the burgeoning indie scene, with the IFComp etc., and all those incredible games around the turn of the century (Photopia, Aisle, Galatea, and so on). 4 years in a computer science program made me slowly loathe sitting in front of computers, and I more or less stopped playing computer games or video games. A few years later now, I’ve picked up programming as a hobby again and, after seeing Get Lamp, realized that I need to get back into IF.
It’s great to see that the community remains thriving and that the medium is continually evolving. While I, of course, have grand intentions of writing my own story some day, I have not yet tried. However, in the meantime, as my IF collection quickly burgeoned thanks to the IFDB and such resources, I decided I needed a good program to organize them. I found one and eventually started hacking on it, so I have given my first contribution of hopefully many to the community (which has its own thread, so I won’t go into it here).
So, glad to be here, looking forward to the discussions, and so on. Cheers 