Fantasy Aisle
Dragons, wizards, and ancient artifacts line these shelves. Stories of magic and heroic quests await those brave enough to open these covers. The spines shimmer faintly in the lamplight, each one a doorway to another world.
Zork 285
Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
This is an attempt to make a truthful as possible ZIL-version of the very first MDL version of Zork from June 14th, 1977. Please type 'about' in game for more info about this version.
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The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold
Ryan Veeder
"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.
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The Wizard Sniffer
Buster Hudson
You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can tell, you are an ordinary pig. A comedy of errors experienced through a parser with a limited verb set. Also, puzzles.
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Savoir-Faire
Emily Short
The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind manicured hands, getting elegant ladies out of elegant fixes - and you're in debt. Bound by oath and honor to a pack of scoundrels. Your father, old peasant that he was, could have warned you against their type.
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Weird City Interloper
C.E.J. Pacian
<i>An interactive tale of strange conspiracy.</i> Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (<i>Weird City Interloper</i> is a shallow but broad conversation game.)
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Grooverland
Mathbrush
"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of author and programmer Chandler Groover, although it does not require previous knowledge of his games to play.
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Bronze
Emily Short
When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.
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Illuminismo Iniziato
Michael J. Coyne
Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical newspaper.
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Suveh Nux
David Fisher
An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.
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Metamorphoses
Emily Short
You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what result?
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Heroes
Sean Barrett
"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
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Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone
Jenny Brennan
You are God! The last God and Lornedei is your only true believer. You need her to stand against the coming dark. Can you guide her? Will she follow?
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Stuff of Legend
Lance Campbell
The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.
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Charming
Kaylah Facey
Potions shattered on the floor, pages torn out of books, a demolished statue... These are a few of the magical messes you will have to clean up before Enchantress Igmenta arrives for your coming-of-age test tonight. Unfortunately, you've never been much good at magic, and it will take all of your determination to learn enough of it to set the Pentacle Chamber to rights--and pass that test! Charming is a short, light, puzzly game. Writing it began around September of 2015; two programming language switches, many hiatuses, a college graduation, and two missed IFComp deadlines later, Kaylah Facey is thrilled to finally release it to the public. She very much hopes you enjoy her debut interactive fiction game.
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Invisible Parties
Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many worlds, in order to hold a party. You don't trust them, but this might be your only chance to see Jave again.
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Tales of the Traveling Swordsman
Mike Snyder
You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but a rumor throughout the land. The original version of TTS was an entry in the 2006 IFComp, where it placed 4th.
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Shuffling Around
Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this stupid kiss-off job fair a "convention."
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Sunset Over Savannah
Ivan Cockrum
In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really <i>really</i> hate your job. You could quit, but should you? You're conflicted. Is there more to life than constant, mind-numbing labor?
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Triune
Papillon
"What are little girls Made of? Sugar and spice And everything nice That's what little girls Are made of." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
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The Chasing
Anssi Räisänen
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