Text-adventure game award-winners of 2008: Everybody Dies takes bronze!

Posted by Cory Doctorow, November 19, 2008 10:30 PM | permalink

Writer/game designer/film-maker Jim Munroe sez,

IFComp 2008, The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition and keeper of the old-school text-game torch, recently declared its winners. Bronze went to my game, Everybody Dies, silver went to Eric Eve's Nightfall, and the gold went to Jeremy Freese's Violet.
Everybody Dies puts you in the shoes of a chubby metalhead who has smoked his last smoke, with illustrations by Michael Cho; Nightfall drops you into a mysterious city where everyone's fled before the approaching Enemy; and in Violet your struggle to write your dissertation is aided by the most charming voice-in-your-head character in history.
All 35 of the comp entries, playable with interpreters, are available at ifcomp.org, but Violet and Everybody Dies can be played online

Congrats, Jim!

Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp, Everybody Dies review at Play This Thing! (Thanks, Jim!)

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#1 posted by Ian Holmes

, November 19, 2008 11:08 PM

IFComp rox!

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#2 posted by Anonymous , November 20, 2008 12:30 AM

Does anyone know what's the best way to play this on Ubuntu? It seems Glulxe can't do graphics?

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#3 posted by Kieran O'Neill , November 20, 2008 2:25 AM

Curse you, Cory! I ended up procrastinating over my Ph.D. by playing a text game where the goal was to avoid doing just that!

(It was a worthy winner, though.)

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#4 posted by Rodney

, November 20, 2008 11:05 AM

I went to the violet site, but all I get is 3 sentences. No options, nothing to do. Is it not playable for Linux users?

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#5 posted by Kieran O'Neill , November 20, 2008 12:09 PM

#4: Rodney, it works for me in Linux, using FF. The trick is to hit enter, then again when the story unfolds. You'll see a prompt. ;)

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#6 posted by JimMunroe , November 20, 2008 1:12 PM

#2: The easiest way to play Everybody Dies on Ubuntu (which, incidentally, I wrote it on) is to click the Java link. There's also a link to a standalone Gargoyle interpreter (patched to run the latest Glulx files), but on my installation it requires you to run it from the commandline for some reason. I do prefer the standalone as it renders the fonts nicer.

Thanks for trying out the games. I have also started to add hints to the comments section on my site, if that's of interest to folks here, and corrected a link to the Windows interpreter to one that actually works.

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#7 posted by arkizzle , November 20, 2008 2:50 PM

..i can't even get past the first challenge.. college iz makin me stoopid :(

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#8 posted by arkizzle , November 20, 2008 3:04 PM

No, really:

heeeelp meee!

/cry

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#9 posted by Rodney

, November 20, 2008 3:50 PM

Kieran, thanks!