XYZZY Me, XYZZY You

The XYZZY Awards ceremony was held yesterday. I didn't win anything, but Walker & Silhouette was nominated for Best Writing and Best Player Character (Ivy), and Dead Like Ants was nominated for best NPCs.

You can see all the nominees and winners at the IFWiki page.

Six-Chamber Champion and the 371-in-1 Pirate Kart

For some reason I decided to do the 371-in-1 Klik & Play Pirate Kart II: Klik Harder event this weekend - at least for just the one game. The idea is definitely for quantity over quality, and games must be completed within two hours - so I just knocked up this short game of chance.

It's far from perfect, but in any case, you can find two hours of my hard work at the page for my entry here.

I've also got a zip containing an updated version - and a .t3 version for you non-Windows types - here.

And finally, why not check out the other entries tagged with Interactive Fiction?

Updates:
Version 2 - fixed a few typos and bugs.
Version 3 - gave the thing a general polish, changed some things that were bugging me, anticipated a couple of silly actions.

SPAG 57

Issue 57 of SPAG is out here. There's a nice review of Walker & Silhouette right at the bottom.

For the record, I haven't played King of Shreds and Patches yet, and I now might understand why some people were able to figure out the 'murder weapon' in W&S so easily...

Still Alive

Hi there. I suppose I've kind of taken the past month off, but I'm starting to gather together my plans and get cracking again. I've got a couple of different collaborations on the horizon, as well as two ideas for IF games that I finally want to try and get done. Looking further ahead, I do intend to go back to Ivy and Nate - but I want to work on other stuff first, to prevent W&S burnout.

And in the short term, there have been some interesting text games by other people over the past couple of months that I want to mention here, as soon as I find the time and energy to sit down and play them.

Walker & Silhouette is now available from the IF Archive. This is probably the most stable of all the download links available, so if you have (or are thinking of) linking to the zip directly, please use:

http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/WalkerSilhouette.zip

Or for a random mirror:

http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/WalkerSilhouette.zip

Update-me-do

I've slipped version 9 of Walker & Silhouette into the existing download links. This fixes a couple of small glitches you may have seen if you tried certain standard IF actions, and also leaves out the superfluous Picasa.ini files that got swept up in the last zip.

Unless I seriously botched something up with this update, this'll be the last version of the game. I'll upload it to the IF Archive over the weekend (although it may be some time before they process it, I'd imagine, especially over Christmas).

What's next?

Right, I'm going to wait until next weekend, then upload a version of Walker & Silhouette that fixes any problems that have cropped up. I'll upload it to the IF Archive too, which should provide a more stable download link than the present Googlepages one...