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The Magazine for Interactive Fiction Enthusiasts May/ June 1995 Issue #3 The Magazine for Interactive Fiction Enthusiasts There’s a room in my new apartment that we call the Featureless Cubicle. If that sounds familiar, you may be thinking of the room with the same name in The Legend Lives!, which is what I was playing the day we were trying to come up with a name instead of just calling it “the office” or “the guest room.” It’s fun to have something in my real life that’s reminiscent of a text adventure, since so few constructs from the IF worlds work well in everyday life. A friend once said to me he’s glad people don’t act in real life the way they do in text adven- ture games; otherwise, if they came over to your house they would just look in everything, look on everything, look behind everything, and look under everything. Then they’d try to take everything that wasn’t nailed down, then ask you about and try to show you various objects. I have to agree. Those people would try everything they could to get past any locked doors in your house. How rude! And watch out if they stumble into a dark room; they might never find their way out! If you can think of any other good examples of how an IF code of con- duct differs greatly from societal norms, please send me some email! IF Competition Contents: In recent weeks, the most popular topic on the rec.arts.int-fiction has Tales From the been discussion of a proposed IF competition. Despite a lack of con- Code Front: sensus on rules, judging, and even timing, most of those posting What XYZZY Does .......2 expressed a desire to get on with it, write a short game, and worry Letters .......................3 about the rest later. As the editor of XYZZYnews, I’d like to donate two prizes: one is $100 in U.S. currency or the equivalent in another Sneak Previews ..........4 nation’s currency, as appropriate, minus bank fees. The second is a Update to the one-year (6 issue) subscription to the print version of XYZZYnews Infocom Bugs List .......5 including the games disks. Either one is a pretty snazzy prize, if you ask me! If you’re not familiar with the competition, I encourage you to News Briefs................8 subscribe to r.a.i-f and get caught up on the subject and the rules-in- Interview: progress. Volker Blasius.............9 Happy gaming! Character Gender in Interactive Fiction......15 Eileen Mullin [email protected] Game Reviews Klaustrophobia ......21 The Gorreven Papers ..................22 Book Reviews ...........23 What’s on the Disk....24 Tales from the Code Front XYZZYnews is published bimonthly by Bran Muffin Communications, 160 West 24th Street, # 7C, New York, NY 10011, USA. Email: [email protected]. Send all inquiries, letters, and submissions to What XYZZY Does the address above. Experienced IF game players know that successful strategies or Contents © 1995 XYZZYnews. All rights solutions for puzzles in one game are often worth trying again in reserved. Published in the United States other games. Experienced game developers learn the value of coding of America. special responses in anticipation of players trying out these strate- Electronic versions: There are gies that worked for them before! My favorite example, obviously, currently two versions of XYZZYnews is the magic word XYZZY from the game Adventure. Even if you made available online. One is in ASCII don’t want the command to work as your players hope it will in and can be viewed with any text reader. your game, it’s much better to code a special response than have You can also download a .PDF file that mirrors the layout of the print version. your parser kick in with a default like “I don’t know the word Use the Adobe Acrobat Reader (available ‘xyzzy’.” Below, in alphabetical order, is a round-up of popular text for Windows, Mac, DOS and UNIX) to view adventures that do make use of special responses to the command the .PDF file; no special fonts or linked graphics are needed. You can obtain XYZZY. How many of these have you seen? Acrobat Reader from ftp.adobe.com in the pub/adobe/applications/Acrobat game title What “XYZZY” does folder, or http://www.adobe.com/ Software.html. You can also read this Curses For a moment you can almost hear a issue of XYZZYnews on the World Wide hoarse voice say something to you. Web at http:www.interport.net/~eileen/ xyzzy3.html But it passes. Subscriptions: Both electronic versions Enhanced Suddenly you find yourself in exactly the are available at no cost. You can obtain same room you were in before! It’s magic! either one by FTPing to the ftp.gmd.de/if- archive/magazines/XYZZYnews directory. Horror of Rylvania You speak an ancient word of power. A To be added to the mailing list, please write to [email protected] and specify hollow voice says, “No chance, chucko. text-only or .PDF version. The print ver- This is a serious adventure. Shape up and sion includes a 3.5" Mac or PC disk and fly right!” is $21 (U.S.) for one year (6 issues) or $3.50 for a sample issue. For print sub- scriptions outside the U.S. or Canada, MacWesleyan A hollow voice says, “To order XYZZYnews, please email or write for rates. the interactive fiction newsletter, send e- mail to [email protected].” All products, names, and services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Unnkulian You invoke an ancient word of power. their respective companies. Unventure II So ancient, in fact, that it no longer works. Nothing happens. Editorial deadline for Issue #4 is June 30, 1995. Waystation Actually having you magically teleport upon the utterance of that word would Editor: violate what little continuity exists in this Eileen Mullin game. Sorry about that. Contributors to this issue: Doug Atkinson This compels you to do more coding, I know, but the payoff is really Stuart Beach high in terms of delighting your players with an inside reference to GreenPagan other text adventure games. Let’s hope we see more of these in the C.E. Forman future! :) Greg Soultanis —Eileen Mullin 2 Issue #3 May/June 1995 LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS…LETTERS… I work in the computer To: XYZZYnews Eileen, industry, in fact I’m MIS man- ager for a medium size energy Yay! Issue #2 hath arrived! Just one comment on your company, and my division has Just the other day I was remarks about women and text about 75 staff members. Now, talking to my wife about how I adventures. I can’t speak to the I’m an over-40 white male, was thinking of getting her a subject of women and pro- conservative and a believer in vanity plate reading XYZZY gramming of text adventures, traditional values, so perhaps for the van. Heh! Heh! Now I but regarding women and play- you would expect not quite the know that word really works! ing of text adventures: I have best. But I take great pride — (I had to explain it to her, tried to interest one ex-wife, in a corporate culture that has though, as she is more the one girl-friend (after the ex- not been kind to women — in Tetris type. There’s still hope, wife), and two daughters in having championed equal pay though!) text adventures, with no and opportunity. I have four Thanks for issue #2. Now I success. Perhaps they don’t section managers reporting to got to figure out how to make relate to the subject matter me; two of them are women. I my boss think it’s work so I (grues, sorcerers, spaceships, chose them not because they can read it... pyramids — rather arcane stuff were (or were not) women; I One thing, though. Could perhaps) or perhaps it’s the chose them because they have you keep the line lengths to interface. Whatever the case, I the skills and talent and were 80 chars or less? That would would very much enjoy seeing the right people for the job. really make it easier to read. them (especially my daughters) And they are paid equally to I can adjust the size of the utilize their imaginations, and their male counterparts (actu- window, but not everyone can, I would certainly enjoy their ally a little more since they are and if I want to print out a company on my adventures — superior contributors). I hard copy... (Actually, I trans- I just don’t know what it will learned something really fer it to my trusty HP100LX take to get them there. important, that it is not only and read it there.) morally correct to treat women Thanks for the issue! Greg and men equally, but it’s good [email protected]. business. If you don’t promote Bill B. honeywell.com and properly treat talented [email protected] women, you are utterly wast- ing a valuable resource. So, not To: XYZZYnews everywhere in the industry is To: XYZZYnews the ratio lopsided! First thank you for the nice Now, if only I could get I was thrilled to find your mag- article on GobblerNet. I’ve some of the other managers to azine and the ftp.gmd.de site achieved my goal of being the follow suit... this week! I’ve been playing largest text game BBS, with text adventures off and on over 350 entries, probably Best wishes, since about 1980, but I still approaching gmd.de in Bob Newell haven’t finished the first one I completeness.
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