great, another geek more keen on authoring new retro text games nobody will ever play.
oh, and welcome!
Dude, donât be a jerk.
I canât help. Iâve got troll genes.
Untrue.
Wow. This makes me really want to introduce myself. 
Hi! My name is Susan and I write games. (Hi Susan!)
One of my first games was what was then called a test-adventure based on Tron. It had riveting writing like âTron sees Yuri. Kissy-kissy (x50). Tron is ready for action.â I was 10.
My current game engine of choice is Renâpy. I seem to be specializing in adding more game aspects to the visual novel.
I also really like being creative under a deadline. Iâve participated in the last 6 NaNoWriMos. Iâve also participated in 24 hour comics and Ludum Dare.
Recent games:
The House that Bled Paint
Made with RenâPy
lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ⌠=16&t=9744
My first complete game. It is The game was written in a month based on a novel I wrote in a month. The lack of quality still shines through.
CRS Escape
Made with RenâPy
ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-da ⌠w&uid=5150
Timelapse of me creating it: youtu.be/K-t-OfdaeDk
My first Ludum Dare entry. I am actually quite proud of this game. I did everything from coding to artwork in 48 hours. I am currently âportingâ it to Inform 7.
All Are Invited
Made with JSVine
thecatsweb.com/AllAreInvited/
This one is made in JavaScript and is playable online. I donât know why I keep creating visual novels that would work better as Interactive Fiction?
Most recent game:
Kitten Crusade
Made with Renâpy
lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ⌠11&t=14713
Another game made in one month for NaNoRenO. It is still in a VERY unpolished state. Lots of spelling mistakes and the story is a bit front heavy.
None of these games are particularly good, but I hope they show a good progression.
Other things I am (in no particular order):
- Wife
- Mother of 16 yo son
- Web application developer
- Artist
- Musician
Susan
Susan, I see youâre from New Brunswick. I once got lost in Fredericton!
Robert Rothman
I live in âdowntownâ Fredericton. 
Susan
In that case, you undoubtedly know exactly where the Princess Margaret Bridge is. I drove around for about two hours trying to find it. I still canât quite figure out how they managed to hide something as large as a bridge.
Robert Rothman
So, at the risk of sounding unhip: whatâs a nag disk? The search results were unenlightening.
Iâve never heard the term, but my educated guess is âfloppy (or CD) full of miscellaneous sharewareâ. Used to be a booming industry in the '90s; Iâm guessing not so much anymore. âNagâ because shareware programs would periodically nag you to register and/or send money for them. And it seems like a plausible vector for someone getting introduced to IF at a young age. But again, I donât know, Iâm just guessing. And ânag diskâ shareware has zero relevant Google hitsâŚ
Oh, wow. I had those discs - well, CDs, in my time. They were my great source of entertainment at one point. I certainly found some IF that way - Unkullia, T-Zero, Deep Space Drifter, Crypt, Dunjeons of Dunjin, The Doppy and Pru TrilogyâŚ
Hello, Iâm Hap Aziz.
First played Colossal Cave Adventure on a DG Eclipse in 1981. Got a TI 99 4/A that same year and played all the Scott Adams adventure games. Then picked up the first gen IBM PC and purchased Deadline as my first piece of software. That was such joy!
For many years I developed software for the Amiga, though never any IF. I served on the board of the Computer Game Developersâ Associate (which turned into the IGDA) back in 1998-2000, and Steve Meretzky of Infocom was on the board with me. To my great thrill
Now Iâm working on an IF project called the Historical Williamsburg Living Narrative. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1743562321/the-historical-williamsburg-living-narrative
Emily Short recently interviewed me about the project, and you can read that interview on her blog here: http://emshort.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/hap-aziz-and-colonial-williamsburg/
Weâre at 70% funded, and can use your help to spread the word!
Digitalhap, I owned an Amiga back in the 1980s. I probably used some of your software. (Actually, the machine is still sitting in my motherâs house. Perhaps someday it will be a museum piece.)
Robert Rothman
Thatâs how I discovered IF, I think in late 2002 or early 2003. Shareware CDs are one of the most iconic memories of my childhood. Iâm only 21 now, so I think they were already on their way out when my cousin and I used to trade the CDs and try all the demo/shareware/freeware games. I had one CD that contained 100 shareware DOS games. It was my cousinâs CD with Windows games that had an IF collection called Adventure Blaster, and thatâs what introduced me to IF. Shortly after that, I found the Inform 5 compiler along with Curses and one other old Inform game (I think it was called Busted) on a different CD. Ah⌠nostolgia.
Whoa⌠Itâs an honor to have you on our forum!
Hi, Iâm Brian.
I have an addiction.
I have been in recovery for a number of years, but recently fell off the wagon.
My first encounter with IF was playing Zork on an Apple II back in 1983 or so. I was hooked. In 1987 my high school team won the Marathon of the Minds in Seattle (playing a pre-release of Hollywood Hijinx). I wrote a few small games with TADS over the years but never released them. I have hosted a mirror of the if-archive at guetech.org for a number of years before shutting it down and still have a mirror of the Infocom Gallery up at gallery.guetech.org/
Recently Iâve started re-playing the Infocom games and am thinking about writing something with Inform.
Hi Im Keegan Im 15 and only learnt about IF late last year. I found on a pc format disk. (PC Format is a computer magazine that releases a disk with software, demos, ect).
I love using Inform 7 because Ive never done any programing and TADS intimidates me 
Hi Im Keegan Im 15 and only learnt about IF late last year. I found on a pc format disk. (PC Format is a computer magazine that releases a disk with software, demos, ect).
I love using Inform 7 because Ive never done any programing and TADS intimidates me
Welcome, Keegan. Iâm glad thereâs still younger people out there getting into IF for the first time. Iâm in the same category, having found IF almost two decades after its prime, as a person of the next generation. Have fun with Inform!
(And yes, that happy face has always looked a little suspicious to me, too. )
Is that Issue 95 of PC Format from May 1999 by any chance? I only realised that Inform was on that disk long after I got into Interactive Fiction, which annoys me slightly as I could have gotten into it earlier!
Actually Im unsure on the issue since I lost the magazine. But on the disk it says May 2008 138 (Im not sure if the 138 is the issue).