This directory contains all the games, each one in its own directory, sorted by programming language. # announcement.txt Announcing the Third Annual Text Adventure Authorship Competition, Administered by "Whizzard" Gerry Kevin Wilson # comp97.z5 tuid: a3thoxm83tzz8ihz The 'front-end' game for the 1997 competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith Release 3 / Serial number 971009 # complete-results.txt complete list of the results of the competition, by the vote taker, LucFrench # everything.zip tuid: sgax2zoh2zc0wcla all the entries in this year's competition in one package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option to preserve the original subdirectory structure. # official-results.txt the results of the competition, by Gerry Kevin Wilson # read.me Whizzard's note about this year's competition: read this to find out where to get more information # AcornJACL.spk a quick port of the JACL engine to the Acorn RISC OS by Julian Arnold, so that Acorn users can play the JACL competition game # agt/emailbox E-Mailbox v0.3 (beta), a true story based on actual events that occurred to a real individual, by Jay A. Goemmer # alan/leaves Leaves, a Short Interactive Journey by Mikko Vuorinen, release 3 # hugo/down Down, by Kent Tessman, Release 1, 30sep97 # inform/agb A Good Breakfast, an Interactive Feeding by Stuart Adair. Release 2 / Serial number 971107 # inform/bear A Bear's Night Out, an Interactive Children's Story by David Dyte. Release 2 / Serial number 971011 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/bear.z5) # inform/cask Cask, my first stab at Interactive Fiction, by Harry M. Hardjono. Release 1 / Serial number 970917 # inform/congrats Congratulations! by Frederick J. Hirsch. Release 1 / Serial number 970929 # inform/edifice The Edifice, an Interactive Allegory by Lucian Smith. Competition Release 1 / Serial number 970930 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/edifice.z5) [the walkthrough edifice.rec is linked to solutions/edifice.rec] # inform/erden Travels in the Land of Erden: In Quest of the Adventure by Laura A. Knauth. Release 1 / Serial number 970930 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/erden.zip) # inform/friday Friday Afternoon or: Escape from MicroSun, by Mischa Schweitzer. Release 1 / Serial number 970927 # inform/home Coming Home, A Simple Home Adventure by Andrew Katz. Release 1 / Serial number 970919 # inform/house Aunt Nancy's House, an Interactive Simulation. by Nate Schwartzman. Release 1 / Serial number 970906 # inform/legacy The Family Legacy, an Interactive Ghost (???) Story by The Tame Computer, Marnie Parker (aka Female Deer). Release 1 / Serial number 971011 Note: This game was withdrawn from the competition, but for historical reasons it stays here with the author's consent. Please play the game if you like and tell the author what you think. # inform/lest Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit, an Interactive Fiction by Ian Ball and Marcus Young. Release 1 / Serial number 970929 # inform/lost The Lost Spellmaker, an Interactive Mission by Neil James Brown. Release 1 / Serial number 970927 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/lost.z5) # inform/mimesis Sins Against Mimesis, an Interactive Theosophy by One of the Bruces. Release 1 / Serial number 970925 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/mimesis.z5 (compiled game file) and in games/source/inform/mimesis.zip (source code and makefile)) # inform/newday A New Day, by Jonathan Fry. Release 1 / Serial number 970929 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/newday.z5) # inform/pintown Pintown, by Stefan Blixt. Release 1 / Serial number 970902 # inform/pizza Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza, an Interactive Errand by Michael Zey. Release 1 / Serial number 970929 # inform/reflect Symetry, a Matter of Self Trust by Rybread Celsius. Release 1 / Serial number 970925 # inform/spring She's Got a Thing for a Spring, an Interactive Dip in a Hot Spring by Brent VanFossen. Release 1 / Serial number 970926 # inform/sylenius Sylenius Mysterium, an Interactive Transcendence. by whomever wrote it. Release 1 / Serial number 970928 # inform/tdragon The Town Dragon, by David A. Cornelson. Release 2 / Serial number 970929 # inform/tempest The Tempest, an interactive performance by William Shakespeare. Release 3 / Serial number 970929 # jacl/grail The Unholy Grail, by Stuart Allen, release 1 NOTE: edit file "config" to point to your game file. # tads/aardvark The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf, by Gary Roggin. # tads/almanac Poor Zefron's Almanac: an interactive cross-genre romp by Carl W. Klutzke. Version 1.0, 30sep97 # tads/babel Babel, by Ian Finley. # tads/frenfive The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, interactive fiction by Anonymous. Competition version. (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/frenfive.gam games/mac/frenfive.sit.hqx, and in games/pc/frenfive.zip) # tads/glow Glowgrass, an Interactive Short Story by Nate Cull. Release 1 # tads/savannah Sunset Over Savannah, an Existential Vacation by Ivan Cockrum. Release 1.0, 30sep97 (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/savannah.gam) # tads/temple Temple of the Orc Mage (level one), by Gary Roggin. # tads/vtech VirtuaTech, by David Glasser, Release 1 # tads/zero Zero Sum Game, an Exercise in Fantastic Futility by Cody Sandifer. Release 1. # tads/zombie Zombie! The Interactive Creepshow by Scott W. Starkey