Index: if-archive/games/competition98

This directory contains all the games, each one in its own directory, sorted by programming language.

The following files were added after the creation of the archives comp98.zip and Comp98.sit.bin. All files submitted by the game authors with permission from David Dyte.


5 Subdirectories

alan
hugo
inform
msdos
tads

See Also

alan/cc

CC, by Mikko Vuorinen. Requires Alan interpreter (Arun) 2.8 to run.

hugo/memory

Persistence of Memory, by Anonymous (an updated version of this game is in games/hugo/memory.hex)

inform/acid

Acid Whiplash, by Anonymous, or rather: Rybread Celsius Can't Find a Dictionary, by Rybread Celsius and Cody Sandifer Release 1 / Serial number 980928

inform/atrox

Cattus Atrox, by David A. Cornelson Release 3.981001 (source code is in games/source/inform/AtroxSrc.zip)

inform/bluemen

Little Blue Men, an interactive object lesson by Michael S. Gentry Release 1 / Serial number 980923

inform/city

The City version 2, an interactive short-experience by Sam Barlow Release 1 / Serial number 980930

inform/dilly

Trapped in a One-Room Dilly, by Laura A. Knauth Release 1 / Serial number 980917

inform/enlighte

Enlightenment: a One Room Absurdity by Taro Stephen Ogawa Release 7 / Serial number 891001

inform/evil

Where Evil Dwells, by Paul Johnson and Steve Owens Release 1 / Serial number 980930

inform/fifteen

Fifteen, by Ricardo Dague Release 1 / Serial number 980926

inform/hrs

Human Resources Stories: In Search of Employment by Harry M. Hardjono Release 1 / Serial number 980930

inform/informat

Informatory, by William S. Shlaer Release 1 / Serial number 980929 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/Informat.z5)

inform/loose

Mother Loose, an Interactive Nursery Rhyme by Irene Callaci Release 1 / Serial number 980928 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/loose.z5)

inform/muse

Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Release 1 / Serial number 980927 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/muse.z5)

inform/photopia

Photopia, by Opal O'Donnell (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/photopia.z5 and games/pc/photopia.exe)

inform/purple

Purple, a passage through disaster, by Stefan Blixt Release 1 / Serial number 980929

inform/research

Research Dig, by Chris Armitage Release 1 / Serial number 980930

inform/ritual

The Ritual of Purification, an Interactive Cleansing by Sable Release 1 / Serial number 980927

inform/space_st

Spacestation, by David Ledgard Release 1 / Serial number 980819 (an updated version of this game is in games/zcode/spacest2.z5)

inform/spotlite

In the Spotlight, an Unexpected Intelligence Test by John Byrd Release 5 / Serial number 980929

inform/tokyo

Downtown Tokyo Present Day, by Digby McWiggle Release 1 / Serial number 980930

msdos/commute

The Commute

msdos/yodel

I Didn't Know You Could Yodel! by Michael R. Eisenman and Andrew J. Indovina Ver 1.12 / Release 24 / Serial number 8675309

tads/arrival

Arrival or, Attack of the B-Movie Cliches by Samantha Clark Version 1 (Sep 30 1998) (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/arrival.zip; source code is in games/source/tads/arrsrc.zip)

tads/fourin1

Four In One, an Interactive Comedy by J. Robinson Wheeler Version 1.0 (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/Fin1_gam.sit and games/tads/Fin1_gam.zip; source code is in games/source/tads/Fin1_src.sit and games/source/tads/Fin1_src.zip)

tads/light

Lightiania, by Gustav Bodell Version 1.14.00

tads/plant

The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts (an updated version of this game is in games/tads/plant_2.zip and its source code is in games/source/tads/plantsrc_2.zip)

8 Files

Comp98.sit.bin [04-Oct-1998]

comp98.zip converted to Macintosh format by Andrew Plotkin. Download in binary mode!

comp98.z5 [03-Oct-1998]
IFDB entry
IFWiki: CompXX

The 'front-end' game for the 1998 competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list. Written by Lucian Paul Smith

comp98.zip [03-Oct-1998]
View contents

all the entries in this year's competition in one package. Unzip into a directory with the -d option to preserve the original subdirectory structure. See also the note above about files that were added after comp98.zip was created.

pre-announcement.txt [02-Mar-1998]

David Dyte's announcement that he is the organiser of the 1998 IF Writing Competition

prizes.txt [23-Feb-1999]

a list of which author chose which prize in the 1998 competition.

readme.txt [02-Oct-1998]

David Dyte's note about this year's competition: read this to find out where to get more information

results.txt [01-Dec-1998]

The results of the 1998 competition

schedule.txt [22-Jun-1998]

some important dates, by David Dyte