All the Pretty Sources - an IFDB Poll

by Jeremy Freese
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IF games that have source code available that you'd hold up as an example of what good looking source code is supposed to look like. (I was motivated to post this by wanting to study some I7 source, but actually pretty source from other platforms would provide a nice comparison.)

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Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
3 votes
"To quote the..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Scavenger Hunt, by Gilles Duchesne
3 votes
"Hugo" [+]... "From a non-Hugo Programmer" [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma, by Juhana Leinonen
2 votes
"Fun to read" [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Bronze, by Emily Short
2 votes
"Getting the..." [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard
2 votes
"In chapters, too" [+]... "Another..." [+]...

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Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
2 votes
"I7 source with detailed comments and a lot of tweaked text" [+]... (No comment) [+]...

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Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
2 votes
"Enjoyed looking into it after we played it at ChicagoIF" [+]... "A game mostly..." [+]...

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Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke
1 vote
"I commented my I7..." [+]...

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Catch That Cat, by Felix Pleșoianu
1 vote
"Shameless plug: I..." [+]...

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Gardening for Beginners, by Juhana Leinonen
1 vote
(No comment) [+]...

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Narrow Your Eyes, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch
1 vote
"A good glulx..." [+]...

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Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard
1 vote
"I'm not sure that..." [+]...

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Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
1 vote
"Uses extensions to organise source code" [+]...

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Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
1 vote
"I7. My understanding is that started coding from mock transcript, so very well organized." [+]...

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My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen
1 vote
(No comment) [+]...

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Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer
1 vote
"Inform 7 source..." [+]...

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Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen
1 vote
(No comment) [+]...

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Ruins, by Graham Nelson
1 vote
"One of the..." [+]...

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> by @, by Aaron A. Reed
1 vote
(No comment) [+]...

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Balances, by Graham Nelson
1 vote
"Inform 6" [+]...

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Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers
1 vote
"I hope all my source code is readable, but for the tiny game Figaro I made sure to add comments that make it readable even to a beginning I7 author." [+]...

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