Lengthy-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: 70 new textual content adventures are actually on-line and accessible for taking part in — as a long-standing custom continues. The 70 new video games are the entries within the twenty eighth annual Interactive Fiction Competitors (now administered by the Interactive Fiction Know-how Basis, a charitable non-profit company).
With wacky titles like “Lazy Wizard’s Information” and “Elvish for Goodbye,” every recreation gives its personal unique tackle the basic choice-based textual content adventures, generally augumented with ambient background noises and even music. Every of the 70 video games has some form of fanciful “cowl artwork” — one even generated utilizing OpenAI’s image-generating instrument DALL-E.
And also you’re invited to assist choose the video games! Simply create an account, after which play and fee at the least 5 of the video games by November 15…
Slashdot first coated the competitors again in 2004. (And in 2006, Slashdot editor Hemos referred to as interactive fiction video games “a number of the greatest I’ve ever performed.”) However this yr the competitors raised over $10,000 (to this point!) to be distributed among the many prime two-thirds of entries, with the first-place finisher receiving $489 and every subsequent finisher receiving rather less, with the lowest-finishing prize recipient awarded $10. (And as well as, prime entrants are every allowed to decide on one prize from a pool of donations.)
Recreation on!
