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Fengol
17-11-2009, 07:50 AM
Casual Gameplay Design Competition #7 (http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/11/game_design_competition_7.php) is up on Jayisgames. Entries must design a one-room game of interactive fiction in Z-code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine) that incorporates the theme: "escape".

I'm sharing this because they recommend using Inform (http://inform7.com/)to create a text adventure and I've been playing with the tool and it's pretty powerful. It uses natural language to build the game which is a unusual for me, being a developer and used to interpreted code.

I can't find any rules disallowing a South African to enter and there's $1,000 for first place.

P.S. There's a screencast (http://inform7.com/learn/movies/) of Inform in action

Fengol
18-11-2009, 08:36 PM
Discovered another cool tool for sharing interactive fiction using Z-code. You can use Parchment (http://code.google.com/p/parchment/) to host your game on the web, either yourself or upload your release Z-Code file (I used Inform7 to create my game) and point Parchment to it to host it for you!