Everyone here seems to be a little Balzac working hard on their masterpiece. What about those of us who just want to play and review and have no interest in writing? What’s the best entry point for us? (I’ve discovered the Archive, but what I’m looking for is a resource that can be used by actual human beings.)
Somebody write a game about a chibi version of Balzac running around, just trailing pages of la comédie humaine like a Team Fortress 2 character with the suitcase
(Looks for middle finger emoticon, and settles on this one: )
You’re pretty good at pointing fingers, yourself, nkfdsfmxukksin. What games have you contributed to IF? Just so I can see a benchmark of a “good” game.
Ah, that explains it. People usually hate others for things they’re afraid to look at in themselves. Although, maybe he was thinking this was the “Uninteractive Shakespeare Appreciation Forum.org.” A common mistake.
Are you saying that Jigsaw is Shakespeare, or somehow making a point that a game like Jigsaw is the equivalent of Shakespeare in IF, or am I just giving you too much credit altogether? I guess the point I’m making is – the point of the thread was about what IF games are good to play, and your response was “why bother playing IF, just read Shakespeare”. How does this translate to being a fan of IF?
IFDB is a good place to find IF, but in my experience it only works if you already know what you’re looking for. So I could find Counterfeit Monkey, or a list of Emily Short’s IF, but it would be hard to find, say, a good science-fiction game (without using an existing game as a starting point to find lists).
Do other people also feel this way? And is there a workaround?
How do you know? The best thing about IF comps, in general, is that you have no idea what’s going to be coming out. So, if you’re a fan of IF, as you say, why do you want people to stop writing their IF games? Wouldn’t that defeat the point?