Re: Don't Hit Me But....

[lpsmith@rice.edu (Lucian Paul Smith)]

Bill (hello@hi.com) wrote:

: 3. What are the best examples of the newest text adventures (written in
: INFORM, TADS, etc...).  Which ones are
: breaking new ground in NPC interactions and story development.

Off the top of my head, I can think of three recent games that all do
something (or many things) quite innovatively:

Photopia, for sheer concept, plot development, and structure.
(http://fovea.retina.net/~grignr/photopia.html)

Spider and Web, again for sheer concept, plot development, and structure,
although in *completely* different ways.
(ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/zcode/Tangle.z5)

Bad Machine, because it will shatter your mind into little pieces and then
all of a sudden it's back but put together differently.
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbs/bmch.html)

Those are good starts, at least.  And they're all quite different from
each other.

-Lucian