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[meteordust]

mollyringwraith strikes again as the 'Rings' characters discuss Oscar snub.

Schala presents us with evidence of Superman subtext. Lois who?

Neil Gaiman mentions on his blog a text adventure based on Hamlet. (You remember text adventures, right? You know, 'talk to ghost', 'get dagger', etc.) Interesting note: when you type 'kiss Horatio', the game responds with 'I don't think Horatio and I are close enough for that.' Damn. I always thought - ohnevermind.

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[calla-s.livejournal.com]

Damn. I always thought - ohnevermind.

I did, too.

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[meteordust.livejournal.com]

I guess I have a thing for the underappreciated best friend. I think that's why I like Romeo/Mercutio too.

[xfire.livejournal.com]

Ah... "Interactive Fiction", as they now prefer to call the good ole Text Adventure...

I looked into writing IF about 4 years ago, before I moved back to Sydney (alas, I'm not much of a writer so I gave up after a few months). Inform was the compiler of choice at the time, sporting a fairly decent compiler, reasonable documentation, and most importantly, produced useful output... Inform produces ZCode files. ZCode was the system which infocom (the guys behind Zork, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, and many other classic "Interactive Fiction" games) made for their games - A system that has been reimplemented many times on pretty much every architecture imaginable.

Maybe you should have a look and see what you can craft out of it. :)

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[meteordust.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the Inform site. It looks like a very useful resource. Hmm, if I had a bit of time, could try a couple of things...