Tomorrow starts the advent (the time before christmas)
Are you already in a xmas mood?
Do you write a xmas IF?
Do you know of any online “advent calendar”?
Or maybe you don’t like xmas at all?
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I like Christmas a lot. I even wrote a commercial game about Christmas (more like an evil horror christmas that starts out nice):
I’d write another christmas game, but people didn’t really like the first one very much.
Club Floyd did a playthrough of it:
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This time of year is an opportunity to play with lot of people, both family and friends.
I try to organize something original each time: once, it was a mystery evening specially adapted for children; another time, it was an adaptation of a “gioco di comitato” (an Italian tradition) for 15-player sessions where everyone was shouting in my living room. A memorable moment was when a prehistoric tribe spontaneously improvised a ritual hunting dance right in the house. When I don’t have much time to prepare, I also recycle commercial games, mixing in custom expansions created by others to set up massive game sessions. I also take the opportunity to introduce collaborative print-and-play narrative-building games: the audience for these is smaller, but I always manage to find a few young enthusiasts willing to join in once everyone else has gone to bed.
There’s also the organization of a TTRPG over two or three days, usually in early January, with a quirky theme chosen by the players.
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I always ask for Christmas games in these days. Do you have a list?
YOU’RE the “What I Learned from Playing Every ChoiceScript Game” author!
Oh my god, I found those posts doing research before I started my own CS game. Your analysis is so, so valuable.
I’m only on my chapter 2 revision now, but if it weren’t for your insights on first chapters, I’d probably still be revising chapter 1.
This reminds me, I should do a refresh read. And now that I’ve found your CoG reviews on IFDB, I’ll refer to them too.
Wow, thank you for your service.
Sorry, back to the original topic. Yes, the holidays are upon us!
Listening to Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas already.
(dang, sorry, I guess that belongs on another thread too…)
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Yeah, I spent about two hours yesterday walking while listening to highlights of my Christmas music collection, crafted some cardboard petals for poinsettias today, might actually go through the dice advent calendar I have sitting at my feet on a semi-day-by-day basis since one of my housemates is dating someone who gets my dice collecting and sometimes comes over while my housemates are at work, down to the last half-dozen cookies in a 3 pound tin of cookies with plans to buy two more tins between now and Christmas(and perhaps a fourth on Christmas(my December payday happens to land on the big day and I usually place my big grocery order for the month on pay day) if they’re still available by then.
I’d have Christmas music playing constantly, but I have trouble hearing my screen reader if I have music playing in the background.
Though, if there are any good, Christmas-themed parser games I can download and run with Frotz or Glulxe, I’d love to hear about them.
Somehow I’m surprised that, with the proliferation of many versions of the original Adventure, there was never a Christmas-themed version designed to be challenged over the days up to Dec 25. An ADVENT calendar, if you will.
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You are standing at the end of a road before a small gingerbread house. Around you is a candy cane forest. A small chocolate stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
> BUILDING
You are inside a gingerbread house, a well house for a large chocolate spring.
There are some chocolate keys on the ground here.
There is a light-up ornament nearby.
There is milk and cookies here.
There is a mug of hot chocolate here.
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There was an attempt to, once, I think, but out of the participants only Andrew Plotkin finished his game (although I may be mangling the backstory here):
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Also The Gateway of the Ferrets - Details !
EDIT-ADD: And The Lost Mountain - Details – somehow I failed to note that one.
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Now, why not a sort of “christmas mini-comp” (NOT a jam…) ?
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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I’ve spent the last few weeks in an absolute whirlwind getting all my Christmas prep done so I can properly enjoy Advent. It’s finally done today, with the house decorated and ready. Absolutely love this time of year.
We had an Adventuron Christmas Jam in 2020, which was a lot of fun. I’d like to see something similar for IF as a whole.
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Someday I may! I’ve thought about it.
The Fallen London advent calendar is a time-honored tradition for me.
Sadly, it seems to be slightly downgraded this year, lacking an actual visual representation of the calendar (which was always a nice piece of artwork), and instead taking place completely within storylets. Oh well. Still one of my favorites.
How dare you.
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Yay! Another Fallen London devotee. Zed and I both play the game, and I was a little disappointed we wouldn’t get the pretty landing page of the actual calendar this year, but from an accessibility standpoint, it is much improved. Already snagged up my little first gift for the month. I also like how there’s a small incentive to grab them on the day of, but you can still play catchup with some wiggle room until the New Year.
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Yes, I love that too. I’m not the most organized person and need that wiggle room badly.
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Got a 3 pound tin of butter cookies and 4 dozen candy canes delivered today, it’s 44F outside, I listened to Crosby, Ives, and Sinatra Carol last night and Nat King Cole today.
Not as good as the Christmases of my childhood and I don’t have any kids of my own to spoil with the season, but I’m feeling pretty good.
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Oh, drat. I thought this thread was going to be about playing Crowther & Woods’ ADVENT* before Christmas.
*a.k.a. Adventure, Original Adventure, Colossal Cave et al.
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Advent Adventure!
Anyhow, if you are looking for a new Christmas themed text adventure to play, try this one: Last House of the Night
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