Interactive Fiction Competition 2001

Matchstick writes: "In the spirit of last year's article: The seventh annual Interactive Fiction competition is underway. This year there are 52 entries, each a bite-sized two hours long, and you only have to judge at least five for your votes to be counted. Winners from previous years are easily as high-quality as the classic Infocom games, and in many cases surpass them. Judging started October 1 and runs to November 15. The interpreters run on all major platforms (and many minor ones). It's late! Get started!"

handheld

[staeci]

I don't know about anyone else but I find reading (particularly fiction) to be very tiresome on a desktop computer.

I have played several IF games 6 months ago (I like lovecraftian horror) but would be more likely to continue to do so and move into genres if I owned a laptop or such which I could play them on. I like to snuggle up on the lounge or sit in a park and read not at a desk.

Re:handheld

[Dudio]

I knew I'd seen this before - you can play all the classic Infocom games via telnet; see http://infocom.elsewhere.org/ [elsewhere.org] for details.

Sh00z is correct though - Lurking Horror, like many other Infocom games, requires information provided on trinkets included in the retail box. However, the Zorks don't require external information to complete, IIRC; incidentally, the original series has been released to the public domain: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/download.html [csd.uwo.ca]