h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Heya Bez

Text adventure (NOT Interactive Fiction ) addict here; author of the meager Text Adventure edited guide entry, and now an official sub-editor. So I step forward and toss my name in for use in whatever capacity I may be helpful in; I'd love to help you on this.

Let me know

>sign name

You sign your name in standard font at the bottom of the post:
Kate Schechter

>save

Do you wish to save this post?

>Y

Post Saved.

Do you wish to accept Kate Schechter's help?

>Y

You heartily welcome Kate aboard for any help she wishes to give.


Great to have you aboard. Right, the project isn't due to start for a couple of days, but I can't see the entry police getting too worked up if I make a start now. Right, what I'm basically looking for is people to give me anything and everything they can on the subject, from bits they think need menitonig in articles, through to personal memories of favourite adventures.

As you are a sub-ed, there is also the question; do you want to be the official sub-editor for this project?

Please wait 1.5 minutes for program to load.............

I'd love to be official sub-ed

In a bit of a time crunch at this moment but - I am going to give this some thought and then post back here... Maybe I shouldn't think I've not had my coffee yet.



Kate

>Turn off coffeemaker

You have just stepped into pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

No problem, just let me know once you've had a think / had some coffee / been eaten by a grue.

> n
You step into a conversation room.
Bels is here.
Kate is here.

> greet all
You greet Bels and Kate

> ask Bels about becoming a contributing researcher; ask Bels whether the Project ending date is 9-11-02 for any particular reason

Robert can't read

> undo; undo; undo; undo;

> n
You step into a conversation room.
Bez is here.
Kate is here.

> greet all
You greet Bez and Kate

> ask Bez about becoming a contributing researcher; ask Bez whether the Project ending date is 9-11-02 for any particular reason

I think I'd get on better in life if I could read people's nicknames properly

You are in a room with Kate and Robert. Robert asks about contributig to the project?

> welcome robert

You welcome Robert to the project, telling him that anything he can add to the articles would be gratefully accepted.

> tell robert about date

You reassure Robert that the date of beginning was chosen as the 1st of the month, and that the finishing date is the day that happenned to be six weeks later.

> appologise about articles

You appologise for the current state of the articles, adding that they should start to look more like coherant pieces of prose in a week or so.

>L

You're standing in a room with Bez and Robert. Robert is muttering to himself 'Bez not Bels, Bez not Bels' under his breath. Bez is fiddling with his articles.

>Say 'Hi' to Robert

You say hello to Robert.

>I

You are currently holding:
An opinion

>Give opinion to Bez

You give the opinion to Bez, who unfolds it and reads it aloud:

Articles are shaping up fairly nicely; I especially liked your analysis of puzzles in text adventures. Still thinking on stuff that you're not including that I would, will let you know when I come up with something

>Press second button

You post the message.

> tell Bez about links page
You turn to face Bez, and start to speak. "I've got some time on my hands, so I'll go web-crawling for a while and find you some IF links "

>tell Bez abo...
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Talk normally for once!
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Anyway, I'm collecting together some links on A766767. I'll tell you when I'm done .

There's a site, the link to which I've since lost, and I know it's moved a few times anyway - BAF's guide to the Interactive Fiction archive... It's a really nice review site that reviews games from the various comps, etc, and has spot-on critiques, as far as I can tell (ie; I can download what they have rated a 5 star game and be guaranteed to like it; I've also learned that if they rated it 3 stars, I'm not going to be thrilled with it)

It's worth a look, if you're trolling for links anyway

It's the first page on IF Links (A766767) . The address is http://www.wurb.com/if/.

*loves dmoz.org*

After a brief trip into h2g2 Moderation hell, I've got the page back up again . Apparently, h2g2 doesn't like ftp links, and it needed 5 e-mails to tell me that.

Anyway, I've clocked up 32 links today. I'll do some more tomorrow .

Oh wow!

Lots of links, thank you.
Glad you think it's shaping up okay, most of the material so far has been me writing down random thoughts and the main points from a few articles I've read.

I'm gonna write some reviews of the sites, then go off on another web trawl, then get the article failed again, etc.

Hello, gentleman

You know... I don't think text adventures were very big with us females... Of course, neither were computers, or video games, in general, back then. Ah, always was an odd

Let me know as articles get ready for subbing



Just started playing another game, btw - the Mulldoon Legacy. Very well done. My favorite game out of the IF comps every year has to be Christminster though... What a well written game! Although, being British would have been to a little bit of an advantage, as some of the jargon confused me a bit. NPCs galore (and excellently done ones) and a parser that could pretty much take anything I threw at it.

Oh well, enough gushing...

I keep meaning to start Christminster, I've heard it's very good. I've got a copy on my hard-disk, I just havn't had much free time lately. Must take a look at it.

It's really very good... Not at all easy (not at *all*) which of course, is a big thing for me. The harder, the better, so long as it's not arbitrarily hard.

There's another, by Andrew Plotkin, that I really liked... I can't remember the name at the moment. It was very well written though.

Kate

http://www.spatch.net/games/play.cgi?game=putpbad



100 points in three moves .

Thinking aloud

Another game I *really* enjoyed was 'The Edifice' by Lucian P. Smith. Excellently done, I have to say... Just went browsing through BAF's and have about 3 more games to try out

Ahhh the addiction.