Someone’s working on a remake of Melbourne House’s The Hobbit. They are working in C++ rather than something modern like TADS, but I am supposing they are aiming for an authentic parser. The original is difficult to recommend because the response time is sluggish, so hopefully a remake would at least fix that issue. The [...]

The Snowman was second place in the Text the Halls competition. My review is down below.

This is a web-based CYOA game. It can be found online here. Review after the jump.

This TADS 3 game could be thought of as Urban Conflict set as a romance in alternate-universe World War 1. Review after the jump.

The contest is over. The top three are 1. Snowblind Aces by C.E.J. Pacian 2. The Snowman by Caio Miranda 3. TIGSaga by various (Terry, Kinten, Akhel, Xander, Haowan, Shinygerbil, and #tigIRC) I plan to put up reviews for these three games (and maybe a few others from the competition) over the next few days.

2007 ended with a flurry of activity, with the French IF-Comp launching and two new games. (The Text the Halls contest also hasn’t closed yet.) 2007 was quite a year for theory: we saw two new IF dissertations and new blogs. While I don’t see any more dissertations coming down the pipeline, I’m hoping more [...]