Anyone want to beta test an IF game?

[loonyboi]

I'm entering this year's IF Comp and need beta testers for my game.

If you've got experience with IF, please msg me your e-mail address.

(At this point I only need IF veterans...no newbies please)

[Kenty]

what's IF?

[Spaff]

Iron Forge?

[Marek]

Interactive Fiction you plebes!!

(Note: have not played IF in many years.)

[loonyboi]

what's IF?

If you don't know, you don't qualify.

[netmonkey]

A question... is interactive ficition the same as a text adventure? isn't it a more modern, fancier name?

[elmuerte]

afaik IF doesn't mean text adventure per se. could be wrong though.

anyway, nothing for me, never been very good at text adventures.

[loonyboi]

Yeah, IF generally means text adventure.

Technically it's any adventure game that uses a natural language parser for input, but that's just a fancypants way of saying text adventure.

Graphics can be used (as can music), but the base requirement is natural language parsing.

(Mine is all text, no graphics)

[toblix]

Anyway, if you ever need some amateur to test your game, I'm up for it.

What language are you using? Have you tried that new one, I forget the name, the one where you write everything like a story, almost? Inform, was that it?

[loonyboi]

What language are you using? Have you tried that new one, I forget the name, the one where you write everything like a story, almost? Inform, was that it?

That's Inform 7. I wrote mine in Inform 6.3.

Inform 7 is brilliant (really), but it's just too alien to me. It also seems like it's very, very hard to do very simple things in Inform 7 just because it's all programmed in natural language.

Anyway, if you ever need some amateur to test your game, I'm up for it.

Shoot me a msg. I'll take on a couple of newbies for the sake of feedback.