LEAVES - A Short Interactive Journey by Mikko Vuorinen This game is compiled with ALAN 2.7(5), so I guess you'll need a version 2.7(5) interpreter to play it. Send your comments and bug reports and everything to mvuorine@cc.helsinki.fi -- Well, this is it. My entry for the 1997 Interactive Fiction Competition. Maybe a bit shorter than I originally planned, but because I started programming much too late I'm quite satisfied with it. It's the best ALAN game I've seen :) Most of the puzzles in this game are about 10 years old. Actually this game is a sort of rewrite of my game I wrote in Commodore 64 basic in 1987 or so. I tried to find my original notes but couldn't find them, so I had to dig up everything from memory. I had nothing on paper while I wrote this game; I made up locations and puzzles at the same time I wrote the code. But why the name Leaves? Maybe because the main character leaves. I don't know. But it sounds good anyway :) There should not be any bugs, because I test every single response the game can give myself. I test everything I can do and everything I should not be able to do. At the time I'm writing this nobody else has seen this game. But I'm sure it is ready to be distributed. Of course I could polish it more, add more responses and more silly verbs, but I don't think that would be necessary. There is however one bug: if you type GET ALL FROM MAN at the old man, the interpreter crashes. At least my PC version does. There is absolutely no need to do that and I doubt anyone would ever even think of typing that, but you have been warned anyway. I guess it's a bug in the interpreter itself. About me? Well, tomorrow (27.9.1997) I turn 24 (happy birthday to me), I study in the University of Helsinki, I'm unmarried and well that's it actually. I like IF and have been playing text adventures ever since I was about 10. Leaves is the first finished game I have made myself. At this point there really should be a credits section, but since I've done everything myself except the ALAN system itself there are no credits. But anyway I thank the creators of ALAN for that easy to use authoring system. The solution is in the separate file leaves.sol. Don't read it, because you should be able to complete the game yourself in no time. It's so short and easy. Hmm. I guess that's it really. Have fun with Leaves.