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Hello, hello! More retro text adventure
goodness in your inbox, just like every month! Thank you for your
continuous support 🙂
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My news
I have started some preliminary work on my next game, but I am not ready
to announce anything just yet - I'd like to have everything lined up
first! Next month, I promise! 😄
In the meantime, I will be giving a talk on Tristam Island for the Commodore Users Europe group,
this Saturday evening! This will be a 20 minute talk at the end of the
session, which runs between 730pm and 9pm (Paris time); I will be
talking about the game's design and the tools that I've used. Join us!
(And for those who can't attend, I will also likely post the Youtube
link here next month!)
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Community news
I have quite a few things on this list, as usual, but if I've missed
something, please let me know! Always keen to learn more about retro
text adventure news
- Mickaël
Pointier, a pillar of the Oric scene, has been working in the past few
weeks on improving the Oric version of The Hobbit, and it's finally available for download! There are quite a few nice audiovisual improvements, and in particular the picture-drawing algorithm has been massively sped up
thanks to Mickaël's technical wizardry. This is all very exciting!
Mickaël has also been working on another project, to convert the 1984
game Encounter into a graphical text adventure: check out for instance this video!
- The ZEsarUX emulator has a very interesting new feature for Spectrum text adventures: it can now show you a map of the text adventure, complete with pictures and location descriptions! This looks very cool!
- A new PAWS game is in development, "Locked In!", by Simon Allan!
- The Spanish game "El Experimento" was awarded the "Best Text Adventure Game" award by ZX Online!
- Ifwiki.org was recently adopted by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
(of which I am a board member), and also had a little bit of a
facelift, making it more inviting and better for mobile. But there is
also an influx of great contributions! Jonathan (who was very involved
in the adoption of ifwiki) is a heavy contributor, but I also want to
note the contributions of Strident, for instance on the Quill page. Thank you to all contributors to this great resource!
- And to conclude on a somewhat down note, it was recently announced that Andy Remic,
a British author and filmmaker who was the author of a number of text
adventures in the late 80s / early 90s, has passed on February 26th. My
condolences to his family.
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This month's article
The article for this month looks into adaptations of books or movies in
text adventures! This is a question that comes up rather frequently
among new authors of interactive fiction; I used this as an opportunity
to dive back into 1980s and 1990s text adventures, and attempt to
provide a general overview with interesting resources, and touch on why
this is a fundamentally difficult problem. I hope you enjoy it!
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See you soon!
Let me know if you've liked this month's article, if you'd like me to
share some news I might not be aware of, or if you just want to chat
about retro text adventures! See you next month 😉
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