Interactive Fiction Competition 2006 Voting Begins

An anonymous reader writes "Voting for the 12th annual Interactive Fiction Competition (IF Comp) has begun! Standout entries this year include a new game from acclaimed writer (and previous IF Comp winner) Emily Short, an interactive moebius strip, the requisite bible game(s) and a game about making games. A full list is available on the IF Comp website, and eToychest kicks off their IF Comp coverage with an interview with Stephen Granade, the competition organizer."

Thought this was something else

[Anonymous Coward]

Read fiction and Voting and thought this would be another artcle about Diebold machines.

I just submitted my interactive fiction.

[Anonymous Coward]

>Turn T-block clockwise.
The T-block falls one space. Below is a red square, two blue squares, another red square, and a green square. You are directly above the red square on the right hand side.
>Down.
You have completed a row! +1 points.
There is a blue square falling here.

LOOK

[Tackhead]

> LOOK

Nothing to see here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

> WAIT
Time passes...

> RELOAD
There is a Diebold thread here. You do not have a sword with which to attack the trolls.

> DOWNLOAD THE COMPETITION GAMES
The site serving the software is in the process of being Slashdotted.

> FUCK!
Such language in a high-class establishment like this! (What do you think this is, Leather Goddesses of Phobos?)

> QUIT
Your score would be 0 (Total of 400 points), in 6 moves.
This score gives you the rank of CmdrTaco.
***END OF SESSION***

Re:LOOK

[bcat24]

> enter slashdot
You enter Slashdot.

There is an article about interactive fiction here.

> read article
An anonymous coward writes to tell about voting for the 12th annual IF Comp beginning.

> write comment
What kind of comment would you like to write?

> a parody of IF
There is already a comment paroding IF here.

> damn it
What a loony!

> write really crappy comment
Written.

The moderatators have come!
They mod you down!
They mod you down again!
They mod you down again!

*** You have died ***

Your score is -1 (total of 500 points), in 6 moves.
This gives you the rank of Average Slashdotter.

How can I not post it?

[pNutz]

from the Escapist:

Porch

This is the weathered front porch of the house. A closed screen door leads westward into the house. You can leave the porch to the east.

Mr. Martin is standing in the doorway.

There is a particularly yummy bone here.

> BARK
"What! Timmy's fallen down and broken his leg! Where?"

> BARK
"In the old Johnson barn! Let's go!"

- a joke contest example from the Winter 1986 Infocom newsletter, "The New Zork Times"