Put me down for a copy of any game you write!
Ha â you can play one of Wes Lesleyâs games now in the 2015 IF Comp. Just played it this week. Itâs great!
Thanks, Cressida, I am now registered and can rate the 2015 IFComp Games, including: âThe King and the Crownâ by Wes Lesley. Oh, the power!
They were jalapeño peppers that I pickled myself, though I only made a quart, not a full peck.
Lucky you. I paid $9.95 per InvisiClues[sup]TM[/sup] booklet back in the day, and the answers, once revealed, fade over time so thereâs no reusing them.
Thatâs all right, your name is Rick. Yours is not the pecking burden - mine is.
On unrelated news, Iâve misplaced by pipe and would be very interested to know where itâs gone.
Methinks someone was teased with a Mother Goose rhyme in his formative years.
Try âRoberta Williamâs Mixed-Up Mother Gooseâ. 
OH YEAH, I remember that! From Sierra, the people that brought us âLeisure Suit Larryâ, etc.
You jumped straight from Mother Goose to Leisure Suit Larry, huh? Iiiinteresting.
Nah, just kidding.
Yeah, but there was an even more risquĂ© game than LSL, and Roberta posed for the cover shot after retiring from Sierra. I didnât post that cover or even mention its title in my previous post. See? I have a certain amount of restraint. Ha.
Bah. Softporn is merely the precursor to LSL. You jumped straight to the GRAPHIC one. Your restraint is⊠poorly restrained.
EDIT - Iâd encourage you not to encourage me too much. I can go on all day.
EDIT 2 - âAfter retiringâ? Methinks weâre not talking about the same game!
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Just wait until he gets going!
More like a mouth that canât be tied shut for love nor money, but hey, isnât that dizzying in its own right?
âŠactually, I might be able to tie my mouth shut for love or money.
âŠdonât suppose there are any takers?..
Inconceivable.
⊠Wait, now Iâm conceiving it.
⊠Not like that, get your mind outta the gutter.
(there was an attempt to be humorous here. I removed it because I was making a very embarassing mistake. So itâs gone now)
Au contraire: Roberta Williams posed for the cover shot a long time before retiring from Sierraâthat game was from the early 80s and she was with Sierra at least through the 90s.
(Hat tip the invaluable Digital Antiquarian⊠well, that doesnât actually contain most of the information I just cited but it does contain the cover, and anyway, now you know about the invaluable Digital Antiquarian.)
âŠoh, Peter already said that.
@Draconis - first to get the reference, wow, you are good. Merlin, too.
@Matt W: You and Peter are right, I am wrong. My bad. Head hung low⊠
Hi Folks, Just thought I would pop in and say Hi! Iâm getting started in writing Inform 7. Having grown up playing the original Infocom games, I thought it would be great fun to write one myself. My favorites were the Zork series, Sorcerer, Enchanter, and Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy. My friends and I would play the Kingâs Quest and Space Quest (Sierra On-Line games) but I always enjoyed the text-only adventures. The Infocom parser was more like natural-language than the Sierra On-Line two-word parser.
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum⊠The anti-spam question on the Registration Page asked me:
âWhat comes after 4th Grade?â
My answer was of course, âSummerâ which the system apparently did not anticipate.
I guess thatâs one of the funny things about Interactive Fiction⊠you can never really anticipate how the User will play the game. Sometimes they will come up with an answer that is technically correct, but different than one you expected. Iâm glad to see there is a section on the IF forum for Play Testing, because I think this will really come in handy.
Cheers!
Ellis
The last time we all fought about what a âparserâ game is, and some choice-game people kept going âNuh-uh, Twine can do that too!â in response to everything, I floated the much scorned idea that âA parser game can reject the playerâs input. A hyperlink/choice game cannot.â
âNuh-uh! All I have to do is put in some if/then statements and thenâŠâ
Hello, everyone. Iâve been lurking around a bit, and I figured the thing to do would be to register and say hi.
Letâs see⊠who am I?
28 and Canadian. First really got into IF in undergrad - must have been around 2007 - though I seem to recall noodling around with some IF when I was much younger, too. Been silently plugging away as an IFComp judge since getting into the genre, without any real interaction with the community beyond my ballot. Actually, until pretty recently, I thought that the old newsgroups were still the hub of community in IF, and seeing next to no activity there, I figured there was no community. Imagine my surprise when I found out there was a forumâŠ
Anywho, thatâs me. Heya, all!