9:05, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
Arid and Pale, by Michael R. Bacon Average member rating: (9 ratings) A short interactive example poem for the Interactive Poetry extension for Inform 7. Not intended to be appreciated as a game or poem. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Bored of the Rings, by Fergus McNeill Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Deep Space Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Stranded in deep space after running out of fuel, you luck upon a nearby space station. When you get there, though, the place is abandoned, and strange things seem to have been happening lately. And if you... |
Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
Exhibition, by Ian Finley Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) "The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But... |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (101 ratings) It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
I-0, by Anonymous Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (158 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (86 ratings) The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Mystery House Makeover!, by Anonymous Average member rating: (3 ratings) Joins early home computing to a ritual of today's popular culture, offering a disturbing transformation of domestic space. (author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned) |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (63 ratings) |
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (33 ratings) Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Michael R. Bacon's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) "Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |