IF Name Generator updated

[Duncan_Stevens]

@Juhana

Whatever We Decide To Call Gregor (1999)

Tags: I7 source available, multiple languages, L Ron Hubbard

Pitch-perfect Lovecraftian horror

Whatever We Decide To Call Gregor Very tough; most people who attempt this will not complete it. UNDO, SAVE and RESTORE are disabled for some reason but they are not needed either.
Sometimes you get the feeling that you just need to wait until the events happens. As Duncan Stevens says in his recent SPAG review of the same game, Whatever We Decide To Call Gregor works thematically, but the plot doesn’t entirely make sense.

I certainly did. And I meant it.

Void: Heads
An Interactive Tea Party

This is the game that Caves
“Okay, okay, you win already, just go away.”

Point 2 Santa!
He’s a remarkably good tennis player, even in that outfit.

The Hand That Time
…but the fire next time.

Puzzle Gauntlet
Points for honesty.

The Marvelous Land from Hell
It’s wonderfully infernal!

Chunky Describes How You’re Feeling
Oh, it does, it does.

You Lake
Me boat. (I also got these, consecutively: You Enchanter and I House)

Pass Lunch
It’s not just about bananas anymore. Nope.

stupidgame Your Responsibility
Hey, that’s not fair. I just downloaded it.

A Sugared Andrew Plotkin
…generates 97 updated Glulx compilers a day.

Happy Adventure

BASK IN SUNSHINE. PICK FLOWERS. SING.

Pong of Mordor
You don’t even want to know what the balls and paddle are.

Quest of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo
Kent Tessman led a more exciting life than you knew.

My Wetlands!
Battle the dastardly EPA.

A Witch On Fire
They’re made of wood, you know.

Everybody Loves Business
Thanks for your comp entry, Governor Romney.

Dark Money
Thanks for your second comp entry, Governor Romney.

Medusa Eye of Bain
That’s enough, Governor Romney.

These don’t make me want to play them:
And Flaws
Amissville of Doom
Undo Many
Yet Another Damn Fantasy Isle
I’ll is the game that I wrote
The Emerald of Error Messages
Quest for Quest
Verb! (Reprise)
Film My Grave
Best of Rain
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Sadness
Phlegm Game
Murder Adventure
Castle 2
Arrow of Death Bloody Guns
Mop Akron
Drool Jim
Basic Error
Sexual Geezers
Dead Cellar
Beyond Cacophony
Download 7
Ruined Quest
Large House
No (demo)

…but these are oddly intriguing:
Tin Houdini
Lazy God
Fingertips: Vortex
Lair of Informal Time
Empire of the Apprentice
History Lizards
Lost Coffins
My Macrocosm
Spiderman Busted!
Sanctuary California
Digging God
Desert Fish
Merlin’s Tense
Dinosaur Tea Room
Amusement Prisoner
Encyclopedia Dastardly
Haunting of Vietnam
Necrotic Aisle
Heroes of Death
Adventure Orchestra
Flexible Darkness
Haunted Muffin
Murder Typo!
Threnody Adventure
Teeny Mountains

[StJohnLimbo]

@Duncan Stevens

…but these are oddly intriguing:
Sanctuary California

Sounds like it could be a great Steinbeck adaptation!

@Duncan Stevens

Merlin’s Tense

Once Past and Future, of course.

[Sargent]

I cannot stop laughing at Pick Up the Phone Booth and Sadness.

[ChrisC (Chris Conley)]

Shamelessy ripping off Adam Thornton’s method, some short reviews of these titles:

Trapped in a Going!
The author’s attempt to put a positive spin on a game full of showstopper bugs fell somewhat flat.

Walker Escape from Dagobah
Star Wars reimagined darker and edgier. Yoda as psychopathic murderer was a nice touch.

Calliope Pants
The gimmick got old fast.

Star Wars Legs
This typo should have never made it past copyediting. And certainly not to gold master.

Pants der Weisen
Haven’t we all had days like that?

El gorrón Anne
An adaptation of the Diary of Anne Frank into Spanish IF. Surprisingly not bad.

And here’s another one I’d like to play:

Madrigals of War and Along Darkened Corridors (1991)

Tags: slapstick, winter, multiple protagonists
Interesting, but a bit overblown

Another entry in the ever-expanding genre of hell- or Satan-themed games, but a pretty good one.

It’s the kind of game that you need to write notes on (or uh, at least I did), and has different solutions such that when you find the better solution, the work involved getting there has made it that much more satisfying.What sinks it is the usual IF maladies: lack of grammar and lack of implementation. Berry before, I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of this piece, which was entered into Emily Short’s SmoochieComp in 2001.

The disorientation of the protagonist isn’t shared by the player.

I had to revert to hints to get this. There is also some justice in Andrew Plotkin’s spoof Inhumane: Madrigals of War and Along Darkened Corridors will kill you a lot, and not all of the deaths are well-signaled in advance. The puzzles are well-clued and generally fair, even for those who haven’t read the stories. I suspect this is another part of the bare-bones mentality that never bothered with the answering why you are in the room, why you are dressed like that, and all the other big questions that will bother you while you’re playing. You’re a detective; you’re in a place you don’t know; you’ve got a mystery to solve; there’s either a randomized element or four pre-set different stories to play through; there’s a time limit.

[Peter_Piers1 (Peter Piers)]

Surely there must be a SpeedIF sometime around these names and/or these reviews?

[maga (Sam Kabo Ashwell)]

@Peter Pears

Surely there must be a SpeedIF sometime around these names and/or these reviews?

Been done: the SpeedIF at PAX East 2011 ended up being based on the Name Generator (well, on a poster based on outputs of the Name Generator), and produced some nifty things.

But a good idea is worth doing twice, and I didn’t take part in that one (I write better in a more private environment, and I can code any time.) So a reprise would be worth it. (Once we’re out of Comp season. Perhaps early December, or is slotting things in between Thanksgiving and Christmas going to be too fine a needle to thread?)

[Peter_Piers1 (Peter Piers)]

Aaaaaaaah. I didn’t know that - and it explains some things about that comp.

[Healy]

Don’t we usually have a New Year’s Speed IF at around that time? We could probably merge them if we really wanted to.

[Tale]

Actually, I was planning on offering something related to the Name Generator as one option this year even before this marvellous thread made sure I absolutely had to.

[maga (Sam Kabo Ashwell)]

Violator Wonderland
Rejected title for Der Baron.

Calliope Mom
Orpheus is going to be grounded for a month, even after he apologises to that nice Mr. Hades.

Timeout of Darkest Africa
Yeah, the warlords, tsetse fly, minefields, HIV, child soldiers and oligarch government are pretty bad, but you know what really hurts? Dialup.

MC Your Pants
He’s tight, he’s dirty and he’s known to get down.

This Is Orphanorium
…roared Olivia, before kicking the social worker into the bottomless pit.

Pizza Quest Enlightenment
When I said I wanted a pizza with everything on it, I didn’t mean…

Gumshoe Reading in May
He sits beneath an apple tree at the tail-end of its flowering. Leafing idly through a hardback, he reads choice snippets of the Metaphysical Poets to the kitten resting its chin on his knee. A soft breeze caresses the hedgerows. His revolver and badge are forgotten. But on the horizon, storms gather.

[VictorGijsbers]

@maga

Rejected title for Der Baron.

Wait, somebody translated my game into German?

[maga (Sam Kabo Ashwell)]

@VictorGijsbers

@maga

Rejected title for Der Baron.

Wait, somebody translated my game into German?

YOU GERMANIC LANGUAGES ARE ALL THE SAME

except English, which is a special snowflake and totally doesn’t count because ‘the’ is not like ‘de’ in the slightest

[Tale]

Dutch is the poor man’s German.

[VictorGijsbers]

@Tale

Dutch is the poor man’s German.

Who needs flames when he has facts?

[Tale]

Well, I checked a lot of these lists and the Netherlands always come out on top. Damn. You win, Gijsbers.

[Felix_Larsson]

Sweden consistently ranks depressingly far below Norway in those lists – and now the skiing and skating season starts, too, with further humiliating results to be expected.
At least there still are more and better Swedish NHL players than Norwegian ones.

[VictorGijsbers]

@Felix Larsson

Sweden consistently ranks depressingly far below Norway in those lists

One thing to boost your self-esteem: it’s not skill. It’s oil.

[Felix_Larsson]

Yeah, I guess. But still – we used to make cars and aircraft, they used to have cod …

[VictorGijsbers]

Well, at least you both have black metal.

[Felix_Larsson]