> by @, by Aaron A. Reed lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort lisapaul'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... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow lisapaul'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... |
AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our... |
Balances, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (39 ratings) "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (49 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (84 ratings) It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (93 ratings) "Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky lisapaul'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 lisapaul'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... |
Keepsake, by Savaric lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences. |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (72 ratings) And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (71 ratings) This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota 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 |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (94 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold lisapaul'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... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin lisapaul'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 lisapaul'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... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (104 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty lisapaul's rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |