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Title: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 01:13:24 PM

Somebody leaked prototypes of Milliways, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure sequel!!!

http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

OH YEAH :pirate

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Eric P on April 18, 2008, 01:17:48 PM

wowie zowie

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Sho Nuff on April 18, 2008, 02:28:01 PM

 :o

holy shit

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 22, 2008, 07:44:29 PM

UPDATE: The comments section on that article has turned into a GIGANTIC reunion/fight/clarification of all the original Infocom implementors, Douglas Adams' collaborators, IF historians and authors of modern IF. It is quite literally unbelievable to anyone like myself who is an Infocom fan.

From the comments, one of the former Infocom authors makes an impromptu transcript from a game about the bar near the Infocom campus:

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AKU-AKU
An Interactive Fiction
Release 0.0.1.0.3
=====

RESTAURANT
You are in a restaurant decorated with monstrous amorphous Polynesian imagery. Around you are several hundred diners.

>X DINERS

Some of them are on the floor. Some of them are on fire.

A waiter brings you a drink.

>X DRINK
You do not want to examine the drink.

>SMELL DRINK
There is a crisp and noisome odour as your nose-hairs ignite.

>EXTINGUISH DRINK
You cannot extinguish the drink.

>DRINK DRINK
You take a sip.

>G
Yuo take anohter sip.

>G

Uoy tkae a thrid spi of teh dnirk. Teh room wihrls ruond. Yuo flal to teh foloor.

>G
You see no drink here. You have not died. You wish you had died.
:bow Infocom :bow2

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Enl on April 22, 2008, 07:56:32 PM

Wow, I considered Hitchiker's Guide to be one of the best Text Based Adventure Games (TBAG) ever made. I need to play this stat!

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 22, 2008, 08:42:27 PM

That's pretty amazing. Too bad he couldn't have leaked the whole Infocom Drive though.  :)

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Enl on April 22, 2008, 10:44:47 PM

Heh, good luck with that. It's not only one of the best texty games but also one of the most difficult.

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Enl on April 22, 2008, 11:37:18 PM

Now onto the pub for a drink!

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 23, 2008, 02:18:07 AM

Quote

You score points for this solution, but it is the wrong one. In fact, the winning score is 470 out of 490; if you get ALL the points, you lose.

:bow
TAKE THAT ACHIEVEMENT WHORES

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 23, 2008, 02:19:53 AM

Germans make sequel to Zak McKraken?!?!

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008/04/zak_mckracken_between_time_and.html

Title: Re: INFOCOM-TON - unreleased game prototypes leaked
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 23, 2008, 04:27:49 AM

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on April 23, 2008, 02:19:53 AM

Germans make sequel to Zak McKraken?!?!

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2008/04/zak_mckracken_between_time_and.html

I saw that. It sounded pretty hot but...2GB download and it's all in German!  :lol :-\ Maybe it'll get translated eventually.