Just to let everyone know, AIF Community Newsletter Games List has been updated from 354 games on July 3, 2013 to 394 games as of January 24, 2016. 41 games were added, one was deleted. Also, with the loss of the aifgames site, many of the links had to be rehabilitated, so hopefully links will be good for a while.
I took the liberty of changing the default sort to descending date so that the most recent games are near the top. Assuming you have javascript turned on, you can still click on the headers and re-sort by title, author, or even the various content classifications. If I inadvertently left an important AIF game off the list, let me know. I plan to do a touch-up to the list around Valentine's Day. Also, if any data point on this list needs addition or correction, you can email garyplume on standard yahoo domain with the title of the game and the updated info.
Things already on my to-do list for the Valentine's update:
Another Friday Part 2 link is broken http://www.aifcommunity.org/games/adrift/Version_5.0/AFP2_GAME.zip
Briar version 2 link is broken http://www.aifcommunity.org/games/inform/Briar.v2.zip
In Darkness pictorial version link is broken http://www.aifcommunity.org/games/tads/tads_2/In_Darkness1.1.zip
Leather Goddesses of Phobos link is broken http://www.aifcommunity.org/games/inform/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos.zip
Maybe disaggregate the minicomp games into discrete downloads
Gary Plume
Your destination for Adult Interactive Fiction discussion
Monday, 25 January 2016
Sunday, 24 January 2016
2015 Erins - Now Live!
Voting for the 2015
Erins is now live!
The voting form can be
found at http://goo.gl/forms/1zDx5K7tVC
You have until the close
of 7 February 2016 (GMT) to cast your vote.
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This year there are five
categories (although you don't have to vote in all of them if you don't want
to).
Game of the Year
This is for the 'best'
(however you choose to define that) game of 2015.
The winner will be
determined by the instant-runoff voting system. You can vote for up to three
games, in order of preference.
Best Character
This is for the 'best'
(again, however you choose to define that) character to appear in an eligible
game in 2015. In this case, 'character' includes both player characters and
non-player characters.
Because of the number of
possible choices, write-in voting is being used. Please identify your choice as
clearly as possible, and only vote for one character.
Best Sex Scene
This is for the 'best'
(again, however you choose to define that) sex scene to appear in an eligible
game in 2015.
Because of the number of
possible choices, write-in voting is being used. Please identify your choice as
clearly as possible, and only vote for one sex scene.
Best New Author
This is for the 'best'
(again, however you choose to define that) new author to appear in 2015. A new
author is anyone who released their first game in 2015.
The winner will be
determined by the instant-runoff voting system. You can vote for up to three
authors, in order of preference.
The Badman Memorial
Award (aka the Hall of Fame)
This is awarded to the
person who has made the greatest contribution to AIF over the whole of their
involvement with the AIF community, not just in 2015.
You can only be inducted
into the Hall of Fame once, so votes for previous winners will be discounted.
If more than one person receives a significant proportion of the vote, they
will all be inducted.
Because of the number of
possible choices, write-in voting is being used. Please identify your choice as
clearly as possible, and only vote for one person.
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This year's nominees
are:
Coffee Date
by Lamont Sanford
Condomocium by Octarine Flash
Enticing Ella
by BeanBean
Hail to the King
by Minterlint
Let Me In
by BBBen
Teacher's Pet
by Dr Realgood
The Heir
by Efon
The Lost Hound
by Palaverous
Working Man
by Ice
You've Got Mail
by Brokenknight
The new authors are:
BeanBean
Efon
Ice
Octarine
Flash
Palaverous
Dr
Realgood
Note that during the
pre-voting discussion there was some disagreement as to whether all the
nominees should be considered AIF. If there is a game on the list that you
personally don't think is AIF, don't vote for it.
Friday, 22 January 2016
What I've been doing lately (Pervert Action: Legacy progress)
I haven't been posting as much publicly as I used to about my game development progress for a couple of reasons, but mostly because I write a full blog post every week for my Patreon backers and so doing smaller updates elsewhere feels a little distracting. Also I couldn't think of a way to do it that didn't just take the form of shameless self-promotion. Anyway, in case you're interested in the larger changes that have been taking place and the general level of development of my current WIP, Pervert Action: Legacy, here's an update.
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Random News - 19 January Edition
The first in a (hopefully) regular series
This week's piece of random news is that House Party by Eek Games entered beta a few days ago.
I found House Party to be notable for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's built with the Unity engine, so it actually looks like you'd imagine a 21st-century adult game to look (ie. a 3D environment with a first-person view). Secondly, unlike all the other graphical games I've seen on Patreon recently, the writing is actually halfway decent.
Of course, having only just entered beta, House Party is still pretty rough around the edges. The plot feels a bit random, and is completely linear (each problem can only be solved one way, even though other plausible solutions exist). The gameplay is mostly limited to finding objects and delivering them to other people. And, probably most importantly, there's very little content as of yet.
And that was the news for today.
If you have a piece of random AIF-related news that you'd like to share, please send it to editor.aifblog@gmail.com.
This week's piece of random news is that House Party by Eek Games entered beta a few days ago.
I found House Party to be notable for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's built with the Unity engine, so it actually looks like you'd imagine a 21st-century adult game to look (ie. a 3D environment with a first-person view). Secondly, unlike all the other graphical games I've seen on Patreon recently, the writing is actually halfway decent.
Of course, having only just entered beta, House Party is still pretty rough around the edges. The plot feels a bit random, and is completely linear (each problem can only be solved one way, even though other plausible solutions exist). The gameplay is mostly limited to finding objects and delivering them to other people. And, probably most importantly, there's very little content as of yet.
And that was the news for today.
If you have a piece of random AIF-related news that you'd like to share, please send it to editor.aifblog@gmail.com.
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
The Erins! - Discussion
In
case you didn't already know, the Erins are annual fan-voted awards that honour
the year's best AIF games and authors. They started in 2002, but went on hiatus after 2009 due to the downturn in the number of games being produced. They were brought back in slimmed down form last year. That experiment was successful, so here
we go again!
For the purposes of this year's iteration of the Erins, entries must fulfil the following criteria:
1. They must be adult games where the player uses text-based gameplay to advance the narrative.
2. They must have been originally released as a full game during 2015.
3. They must have been published (ie. posting a link to the game) on the aifarchive Yahoo! group or AIF Central blog by the author, or with the author's permission.
Authors can choose to remove their game from consideration.
Where there is some uncertainty as to whether or not a game is eligible, a decision shall be made by the person(s) organising the Erins.
Categories
Best Sex Scene
Any sex scene appearing in a game nominated for Game of the Year
In
order to establish the Erins 2.0 as a going concern I thought it might be a
good idea to establish some rules going forward (especially as the original
rules seem to be missing in action). Note that the following is all
provisional. Suggestions for improvements would be welcome.
Eligibility
For the purposes of this year's iteration of the Erins, entries must fulfil the following criteria:
1. They must be adult games where the player uses text-based gameplay to advance the narrative.
2. They must have been originally released as a full game during 2015.
3. They must have been published (ie. posting a link to the game) on the aifarchive Yahoo! group or AIF Central blog by the author, or with the author's permission.
Authors can choose to remove their game from consideration.
Where there is some uncertainty as to whether or not a game is eligible, a decision shall be made by the person(s) organising the Erins.
The
categories are:
Game of the Year - for the 'best' (however you choose
to define that) game released in 2015; open to all entries
Best Character - for the 'best' (however you choose
to define that) character to appear in an AIF game in 2015
Best Sex Scene - for the 'best' (however you choose
to define that) sex scene to appear in an AIF game in 2015
Best New Author - for the 'best' (however you choose to define that) new author to release a game in 2015; open to any author who hasn't released a game previously
The Badman Memorial Award (aka Hall of Fame) - for the person (or persons) who have made the 'greatest' (however you choose to define that) contribution to AIF; open to anyone not already inducted in previous years
Best New Author - for the 'best' (however you choose to define that) new author to release a game in 2015; open to any author who hasn't released a game previously
The Badman Memorial Award (aka Hall of Fame) - for the person (or persons) who have made the 'greatest' (however you choose to define that) contribution to AIF; open to anyone not already inducted in previous years
[As
suggested last time, if more than one person gets a significant proportion of
the Hall of Fame votes they will all be inducted.]
Nominees
On
that basis, the nominees are:
Game of the Year
Coffee
Date by Lamont
Sanford
Condomocium by Octarine Flash
Condomocium by Octarine Flash
Enticing
Ella by BeanBean
Hail
to the King by
Minterlint
Let
Me In by BBBen
Teacher's
Pet by Dr Realgood
The Heir by Efon
The Heir by Efon
The
Lost Hound by
Palaverous
Working
Man by Ice
You've
Got Mail by
Brokenknight
Best Character
Any character appearing in a game nominated for Game of the Year
Best Character
Any character appearing in a game nominated for Game of the Year
Best Sex Scene
Any sex scene appearing in a game nominated for Game of the Year
Best New Author
BeanBean
Dr
Realgood
Efon
Ice
Octarine Flash
Efon
Ice
Octarine Flash
Palaverous
Hall of Fame
Anyone,
except the previous inductees: Badman, Choices, NewKid, Christopher Cole,
Scarlet Herring, A.Bomire, BBBen, GoblinBoy, or Purple Dragon.
[If
there are any eligible games I've missed, please let me know. Conversely, if
you don't want your game to be included (for whatever reason) please let me
know.]
Voting
The
voting period provisionally starts on 24 January 2016 and finishes on the close
of 7 February 2016 (all times GMT).
Voting
for the Game of the Year and Best New Author awards will use the instant-runoff
voting system. Voting for Best Character, Best Sex Scene and the Badman Memorial Award will be a write-in vote.
[In
future I'd like to start the voting earlier so as to make sure the Erins don't
distract from any games released in January or February.
Google
Forms looks like it can handle preference voting, which several people asked
for last time. However, it's kind of clunky and the votes will still have to be
totalled manually (which is why you'll be restricted to three preferences), so
if anyone has a more elegant alternative it would be eagerly accepted.]
Winning
The
winner gets... to win!
[It
would be nice if winners got some sort of customised award graphic, as in days
of yore, but I simply don't have the artistic ability for that. If anyone with more
talent could provide something suitable it would be very much appreciated.]
Saturday, 2 January 2016
January Open Thread: Game Plans for 2016
After a great beginning to 2015 with a lot of entries this blog became very quiet. My open thread topics died off as I became very busy. There was actually a few times I signed on to start a monthly open thread, but then would get derailed by surprise events like Goblinboy's return (I actually went to post an open thread the same day Goblinboy made his first post in April and I chuckled about how it would look if I bumped his thread down the page).
Hopefully this blog can keep the momentum going through the year and I thought a good topic to get 2016 going would be for the authors/potential authors out there: what are your plans/hopes for releases for this year? Even if you just have an idea brewing and you hope this is the year, here's the opportunity to let us know what you're thinking. Give us as much or as little about the game as you want.
Feel free to err on the optimistic side for how much can be done: it's a new year, let's have high hopes.
Hopefully this blog can keep the momentum going through the year and I thought a good topic to get 2016 going would be for the authors/potential authors out there: what are your plans/hopes for releases for this year? Even if you just have an idea brewing and you hope this is the year, here's the opportunity to let us know what you're thinking. Give us as much or as little about the game as you want.
Feel free to err on the optimistic side for how much can be done: it's a new year, let's have high hopes.
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