HanonO
(Hanon Ondricek)
November 10, 2025, 7:16pm
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If you’re looking for collaborative/example IF play with actual content, you might want to do a search for the phrase “let’s play” or the tag lets-play where usually someone plays a game and comments the transcript with their impressions as they go along.
Sharp words between the superpowers. Tanks in East Berlin. And now, reports the BBC, rumors of a satellite blackout. It’s enough to spoil your continental breakfast.
But the world will have to wait. This is the last day of your $599 London Getaway Package, and you’re determined to soak up as much of that authentic English ambience as you can. So you’ve left the tour bus behind, ditched the camera and escaped to Hyde Park for a contemplative stroll through the Kensington Gardens.
Palace Gate
A…
Chapter I - Tutoria
So what exactly are we getting into here?
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Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
Since then, Atlantis has been the world’s greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide…
Also known as: can I make the most confusing thread ever?
The Gostak is a bizarre and wonderful linguistic IF that I enjoy inflicting on people. Everyone I’ve recommended it to, both normal friends and linguists alike, has run away screaming from the opening page. It placed 21st in IFComp 2001 out of 51 entries, won Best Individual Puzzle & Best Use of Medium in that year’s XYZZY Awards along with a Golden Banana of Discord, and may be ever so slightly infuriating to play. I love it.
The Gosta…
Another good source of collab play is the transcripts of ClubFloyd where people periodically gather in a MUD to play and discuss a game in a special interpreter that allows MST3K-style side chatter:
ClubFloyd content can be accessed at:
Also in general check out the Playing category for reviews, essays and discussion of IF content.
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