IF Miscellany
April 21st, 2008 by CrusaderFreshmeat mentioned two interactive fiction projects this week:
- Glulx, a virtual machine for IF that uses 32-bit data.
- The Z-Machine Preservation Project is an implementation of the Z-machine in Java.
There’s also a lengthy article at Waxy.org about an unreleased sequel to the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game, which you can sort of play (it was never completed) via ZMPP at their site.
Edit: If you’re looking for more recent IF games, Anchorhead, Varicella, and Galatea are three standouts. There’s also the annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:55 am
ZMPP looks really great. Not that there too few Z-machine interpreters for UNIX, though… :) I still have a C64 copy of HHGTTG with all the extras, including the red/yellow pin-button, that you see above!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Cool! There’s also the Flash version linked indirectly above with new art:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
There was also a new article yesterday on the Flash port’s art:
http://io9.com/382856/inside-the-heart-of-gold-that-you-never-saw