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Xyzzynews Is Published by Eileen Mullin, 160 West 24Th Street, # 7C, Interactive Fiction on the Web New York, NY 10011, USA Issue #17 The Magazine for Interactive Fiction Enthusiasts Even though playing text adventure games is largely a solitary pursuit, IF fans sure like to put a competitive edge on it wherever possible. Take the recent crop of mini IF competitions in all manner of niche categories: There was the XComp, for games involving the paranormal in some way. The I-Comp was notable for a feature its entries lacked; namely, the games could not let players use an inventory for collecting items. And in the Roadkill Comp…well, it’s evident what games in that competition could be expected to feature. On the lighter side, the WackyComp (with entries based on one of a number of pithy aphorisms) was reminiscent of last year’s Chicken Comp (with games that all featured a chicken crossing the road). If you missed the debut of any of these contests, visit ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/mini-comps/ to see how they fared. While these mini-comps have so far not proven as hotly contest- ed as the annual IF competition or the XYZZY Awards, they all point up a desire to share the wealth when it comes to honoring our game developer colleagues for their sharp-witted dialogue and skill in puzzle creation. Even though the XYZZY Awards offers prizes in a diverse range of categories, it’s been dominated by the crowd favorites more than once. In the most recent XYZZY Awards (held in February 1999), hon- oring the best games of 1998, Adam Cadre’s Photopia and Andrew Plotkin’s Spider and Web won in seven out of 10 categories. See this issue’s Letters column for one proposal I received for restructuring Contents: the voting; it calls for enabling readers to vote in a second round after the top five vote-getters in each category are designated as Top 10 Picks for IF on the Web ................2 nominees. My initial hunch is that the results would not turn out much differently — but please let me hear your thoughts on this as Letters.......................3 well! Description Until next issue, happy gaming! Medicine: Making a Room Come to Life.....7 Eileen Mullin [email protected] Have IF, Will Travel: A Primer on Playing Text Adventures on PDAs and Handheld Devices....................11 Game Review: Dr. Dumont’s Wild P.A.R.T.I.......14 Bulletin Board ..........15 NEWSBRIEFS…NEWSBRIEFS…NEWSBRIEFS…NEWSBRIEFS… Issue # 17 Top 10 Picks for XYZZYnews is published by Eileen Mullin, 160 West 24th Street, # 7C, Interactive Fiction on the Web New York, NY 10011, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. URL: Adventure Review http://www.xyzzynews.com/. Send all http://www3.sympatico.ca/philip.jong/index.htm inquiries, letters, and submissions to any of the addresses above. Creating a text adventure game in Java http://www.davidreilly.com/jcb/text-adventure/index.html Contents © 1999 XYZZYnews. All rights reserved. Published in the United States Douglas Adams’ Amazing HHG Text Game of America. http://www.comicrelief.org.uk/frames/fun/hitch_hike/ dont_panic.htm Electronic versions: There are currently three versions of XYZZYnews made available online. One is in ASCII and Fiction Interactive can be viewed with any text reader. You http://home.earthlink.net/~phoebef/fictioninteractive/ can also download a .PDF file that mirrors fictioninteractive.html the layout of the print version. Use the Adobe Acrobat Reader (available for The Infocom Walkthrough Archives Windows, Mac, DOS and Unix) to view the http://home.earthlink.net/~phantoman/infocom/ .PDF file; no special fonts or linked graph- ics are needed. You can obtain Acrobat Interactive Fiction Playground Reader by following the links from http://www.tangrams.com/IF/ http://www.adobe.com/. Thirdly, you can also read this issue online at Intruder Online http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.17.html http://www.gay-point.de/intruder/ Subscriptions: All electronic versions are LSD Interactive Adventure Game available at no cost. You can obtain either the ASCII or PDF versions by FTPing to the http://www.aapi.co.uk/~oulik/lsd/ ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/magazines/ XYZZYnews directory. To be added to the SLAG: A Z-Machine Hint System mailing list, please write to eileen@inter- http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/slag/ port.net and specify text-only or .PDF ver- sion. The print version is $15 (U.S.) for one The Unofficial Legend Text Adventure Page year (6 issues) or $2.50 for a sample issue. http://www.waitingforgo.com/legend For print subscriptions outside the U.S. or Canada, please e-mail or write for rates. All products, names, and services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Editor: Eileen Mullin Associate Editor: Neil deMause Contributors to this issue: Michael Berlyn Joe Merical LSD Interactive Adventure Game site Ross Rubin 2 Issue #17 XYZZYnews LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS… Hi there, Who knows what’ll seem adventures? Would this added essential at this time next capability detract from the Thanks for running the year?) spirit of the games? These XYZZY Awards again. In the Anyway, just thought I’d games would not expand aftermath of this year’s cere- pass these ideas along while vocabulary nearly as much. mony, a bunch of us were kick- they’re still fresh. Thanks But, we would get away from ing around some ideas. First again. tedious typing. (Admit it, typ- off, most people seem to be in —Adam Cadre ing can be tedious at times.) I favor of breaking the voting up [email protected] would like to see the option into a pair of two-week remain open though for typing periods. The first would be for or speech synthesis. I don’t nominations, in which people Dear XYZZYnews, believe the Z-code would need could submit as many choices to be changed. Merely altering as they like for each category. Thank you for maintaining the front end or the interface Top five vote-getters in each such a wonderful site. For should be enough. I am not category would be the nomi- years I have played the sure though how to handle nees. Then there would be Infocom text adventures found games like Beyond Zork where another two weeks in which the LTOI volumes 1 and 2. there is an automapping fea- people would vote. A lot of Only recently have I started ture (which I personally really people said that it’d be much looking on the Internet for liked). less daunting to select a other resources. The most Those are my thoughts for favorite from a list of five than pleasing surprise for me was the day on text adventures and from a list of 120 games multi- the discovery of other where they may go. For what plied by all the puzzles and Z-machine interpreters for var- it’s worth, the biggest loss characters therein. ious operating systems. It was came when graphic adventures I personally would really these interpreters that got me dropped their parsers. The like to see this second round thinking the other day. games and the computers they done with Instant Runoff Has anyone used the were played on lost their per- Voting, in which each voter Dragon Naturally Speaking (or sonalities. would rank the choices from 1 other speech recognition) soft- Sincerely, to 5, with votes redistributed ware with the Win ’9x —Bob Langer as candidates drop out. This Z-machine interpreters? [email protected] would help prevent splits in If Activision would take the Individual categories — so the time and effort to bundle if Dragon Town has a bunch of the Infocom games with a Hello XYZZY! NPCs that people love, they decent interface and speech won’t end up splitting their recognition (and synthesis) Just a note on the convention votes and throwing the victory software, these titles could article in issue #16. From to the solitary NPC in Tornado remain viable for quite some what I’ve read of the Dogs or some such. time. Since I do not run Win Erasmatron so far (XYZZYnews Finally (for now), David ’9x or have a machine at home #14), it seems an abysmal fail- Dyte says that because of the capable of handling speech ure at any sort of “revolution.” medals, he’d like an absolute recognition, this question is I also strongly agree with cap on ten awards per year. moot for me at this point. Lucian Smith that the idea of Nevertheless, IF changes over However, if people do have “simplifying” code so that the years, and it might be nice success with speech recogni- “artists” are able to bring there if each year we could consider tion and the Z-machine inter- ideas to life in software is phasing out categories that preter, that would be enough somewhat misled. I am both a come to seem marginal and right there for me to save a few computer programmer (pro- phasing in ones that seem pennies and invest in a more gramming since the age of five more relevant. (For instance, contemporary model. — ah, the days of the TRS-80 prior to 1997, a Best PC award On a more philosophical Color Computer!) and an artist probably wouldn’t have note though, how do you feel (professional actor, professional occurred to many people — but about the use of speech recog- graphic designer, amateur now it seems quite essential. nition and synthesis for text writer and illustrator); any XYZZYnews 3 LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS… “artist” who doesn’t want to Anyway, congratulations tive fiction for help? If I were bother learning a new medium on an excellent (and very to do this on my own my game should not attempt to work flashy) magazine.
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