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Welcome to the forum, ManolisG13!


It's Stephen Granade.

My name is Alex.

I was reading an issue of Games for Windows (now defunct, >:( *angry face*) and there was an article about Text Adventures. I found the link to Home of the Underdogs (I miss the old site ), then the link to some AGI games. Eventually, Interactive Fiction caught my attention.

I started out with Computer Novel Construction Set (a very good but limited (and obscure) program--released 24 years ago), then ADRIFT, then Inform 7. I made some games (The Isolation Series (not released--must rewrite that), and some [unfinished] games, including Crimson Twilight (again, not released--I won't rewrite it, but i could finish it)).

Currently i'm writing Chimaera Beast, a game based on a story I trid two implement twice already. Both times it failed, but this game will be short (The first chapter in a series), so I guess i'll finish it.

Meaby today.

PS: Galatea roxors

PS.2: Inform 7 for Linux noms my RAM

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Work in Progress: Chimaera Beast

I'm still somewhat new to IF. I also first learned of it via The Underdogs site in 2006. I downloaded Glowgrass, Lash, Photograph etc and rather liked them. After entering college there's been a long stretch of not playing much, but now my attention has returned. I might be slightly younger than the average IF fan...21?

Outside IF, my main interests are otaku/moe culture, transhumanism, and political science.

Welcome to the forum, Eudoxia and linger!

Hi all.

My name is Marco Innocenti, Italian, age 37.
I'm a literal "text adventure"-maniac since when I was barely born, in the early '80s, when I used to play IF on my C64. I still drool at the thought of The Hobbit, Gruds in Space and Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Since then, i never really left the house of IF.

I tried authoring IF (I'm quite the kind who tries to author everything, from actual fiction to music to arts) back in the I6 days. I found myself frustrated by the lack of competence in advanced programming and of time to dedicate to such a task.

Now, with the awesome I7 up and running, I'm back in the "business" again. I feel I can do something more than a three-room exercise with no puzzle at all. Hope you will hear more from me. The only handicaps I must now rub away are my highly deformed english-writing (that due to the fact I played MMORPGS for the last 8 years thus transforming with time every "can't" in a "cant" and every "you" in a "u"... a bad habit that is now hard to remove) and my not-so-good english.

In the meanwhile, I will look at this forum with love in my eyes.
Be prepared, for I am a very verbal man

Welcome to the forum, Marco!

Do you know that an Italian-language IF community exists? Sure, if you write IF in Italian, you'll have a far smaller audience than in English... But it might still be worth it, especially if you're not very good in English. I think Inform 7 was translated into Italian, but I'm not quite sure (was it only an incomplete version?) -- anyway, it's possible to translate it.

Yes, I tested it. There are two reasons why I'd rather do an imperfect english IF than an italian one.

1) The Ita-IF is almost perfect, a job very well done. Too bad, at the moment, it lives on the basics of the english version, thus providing aberrations in the syntax that I find very hard to get corrected, or digested. I.e.: eng > "it's part of the door"; ita > "è parte di la porta" while the correct use would be "è parte della porta".

2) The second reason has more sentimental roots: for me, as opposed to all the others IF-players i know, IF is in english. IF is Infocom, Level9, Magnetic Scrolls, Scott Adams. And now: Gentry, Plotking, Short etc. During the ages (moreso, in the times when IF was a trend, here in Italy) some magazine came out with many, many adventures that, altho funny and well written, lacked the spirit of true IF: they were a collection of cul-de-sacs, a room with a puzzle following the next until the end. The prose itself was puzzle oriented and never-ever much evocative. That, weighted with the far more interesting Infocom games (and — why not — with the fact that a foreign language has always much more appeal), turned me into a non-lover. So: to me, reading/writing "the cave is immersed in the pale glowing of the moon, filtering from the opening in the ceiling" has much more appeal than "la caverna è immersa nel pallido baluginìo della luna, che filtra dall'apertura nel soffitto." That's all.

By the way: my english is not that bad
My big problem is that I'm quite a nice writer in Italian, and I tend to use similar phrase-construction that the one I use in italian. This, often, brings me to hard-to-compose sentences, infinite periods, cranky text.

Nothing, I hope, that a good beta tester wouldn't correct in no time.

Anyway, I still think about IF as an hobby (my mistake!). This means no one will hang me by the sacred ones if i build up something below the average quality.

Hey there. Name's Melanie, 15 years old (I feel so young here D8), and I'm currently working on a... well, a crossover interactive fanfiction, you'd call it? I know, kinda silly, but I have the plot in my head and it just has to be made - plus, I love trying new things, and writing IF falls squarely into that category.

Right now I'm struggling a bit with the actual programming aspect, but I'm having fun. Interactive fiction's been one of my favorite mediums for a while, ever since I was really young and tried playing the original Adventure, in fact, so I'm happy to be joining those who create their own.

Awesome, welcome to the forums Keltena

Welcome to the new generation of IF authors! (I mean Keltena, of course.)