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It seems some cruel professor is forcing students to write IF as part
of a course, "Computer Game Design and Implementation". The games are
all downloadable or playable online.

Here's the assignment, "The Interactive Fiction Project":
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis587/if-f02.html

And here are the games:
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/index.php

Anyone heard of this before? I only found it through the craftiness of
Google.

 

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JohnnyMrNinja wrote:
> It seems some cruel professor is forcing students to write IF as part
> of a course, "Computer Game Design and Implementation". The games are
> all downloadable or playable online.
>
> Here's the assignment, "The Interactive Fiction Project":
> http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis587/if-f02.html
>
> And here are the games:
> http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis487/z5/index.php
>
> Anyone heard of this before? I only found it through the craftiness
of
> Google.

Neat find. I'm trying out "George Constanza: Looking for Love" just for
kicks.

 

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I was thinking about looking at "Monkeys Stole My Pants", myself.

 

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Me, I'm hoping that "System Administrator's Day Off" achieves that Holy
Grail of balance between verisimilitude and gameplay. 😉

Thanks for the links, JohnnyMrNinja. Nick Montfort has a syllabus for
a semester-long course exclusively on IF creation (
http://nickm.com/if/workshop_syllabus.txt ), which would be a very
interesting class indeed.