[cd] game list

[erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)]

Only a few hours late, here it is. Seventeen games, not counting 
"Freefall" and "Modernism" and whatever we come up with as an example / 
transcript game.

Footnotes first.

[1] I have not listed any of the '95 competition games. The top six are
already being published, for one thing. This is slightly rude to the other
six, but, well, they didn't win. :) The '96 games are really a bit too far
off; I want to keep this project moving. If we ever go to a sequel, we can
include all the '95 and '96 entries. 

[2] Scott Adams' post said that his new game (new version, whatever) 
would be ready "by year's end." Again, that's over our horizon. I will 
email him and at least mention the project.

[3] Like I said, all TADS and Inform games. I make that decision in the 
belief that we couldn't add more than a couple games of this caliber for 
each additional runtime system; and each runtime system is a new pain in 
the butt.

[4] I list all the ex-shareware Unnkulian games. We would have to get the 
new, freeware versions of those. Hey, Dave! Do you know when that will 
be?

[5] Similarly, I include "Hero, Inc", even though the only extant version 
is a beta-test version. (I think it's a very nice game which is short. We 
have plenty of leviathans, but not so many short works.) I'll bug the 
author. Well, obviously I'm going to be bugging *all* of the authors 
later tonight. Mmm, form letters.

[6] Adventure (Colossal Cave) is in there. I don't see how we can leave 
it out. Since we're aiming at non-Net-connected players, a lot of them 
*don't* have a copy, right? They'll get a kick out of it. I say use the 
Inform port, mostly because there are more TADS games listed than Inform 
games.

[7] Someone tell me the length of difficulty of UU0. I've only ever played 
the demo.

Enough. My list:

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John's Fire Witch (John T Baker)
easy; short
[shareware, $6]

HERO, INC Volume One (Nate Cull)
easy; short
[NEED NON-BETA VERSION]

Lethe Flow Phoenix: A Flight of Fantasy (Dan Shiovitz)
medium; medium
[free]

Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda (D. A. Leary)
###; ###
[NEED FULL FREE VERSION]

Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant (D. A. Leary)
easy; short
[NEED UPDATED VERSION (ie, not listing the other games as SW)]

Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure (D. A. Leary)
difficult; medium
[NEED FREE VERSION]

Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme (David M. Baggett)
difficult; medium
[NEED FREE VERSION]

The Legend Lives! (David M. Baggett)
difficult; long
[free]

Adventure (Crowther & Woods via David M. Baggett via Graham Nelson)
medium; medium
[free]

The Light: Shelby's Addendum (C.A. McCarthy)
medium; medium
[shareware $10]

Theatre (Brendon Wyber)
medium; medium
[free]

Lost New York (Neil deMause)
medium; long
[shareware $12]

Christminster (Gareth Rees)
medium; long
[free]

Curses (Graham Nelson)
difficult; long
[free]

Jigsaw (Graham Nelson)
difficult; long
[free]

The Path to Fortune (Jeff Cassidy and C.E. Forman)
difficult; long
[shareware $10]

So Far (Andrew Plotkin)
difficult; medium
[free]

Freefall (Andrew Plotkin)
zen; tiny
[free]

Modernism (Jacob Weinstein)
zen; tiny
[approximately free]

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Obviously, this is an initial cut. Suggestions welcome. Comments on 
ratings welcome. All suggestions and comments become property of the Lord 
High Pooh-Bah, and may be used or ignored as befits the goal of keeping 
this show on the road.

--Z

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