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7.1 KiB
Ongoing
- The annual XYZZY Awards are coming up. It's time to fill IMDB with games from 2016.
- The Spring Thing is just around the corner. The deadline for intents is 9 March.
- Sub-q magazine still seeks submissions.
- SPAG is looking for authors too
Engines and tools
- The Interactive Fiction Virtual Machines Suite (ifvms.js) got an update to version 1.1.0
- technix released an INSTEAD.js playground. The pre-defined game is in Russian and the playground doesn't save the code online but you can use it to play around with the engine without installing anything.
- oreolek made a similar playground for Salet
- Storealis is a new platform in closed beta, and you can play with it right on their front page. There's a limit of 500 characters on card's text and 30 characters for every choice option.
New games
- Beached! (Prelude) by BrightSight company is a new prequel to the „Beached! (Part 1)” that also serves as a new teaser to „Beached! (part 2)”, which will be released later this year. It's an online escape room game on a homebrew parser.
Textadventures.co.uk
- “Titanfall 2 The 6-4: Demo”
- “Find the USBs”
- “The Murderer Episode 1”
- “Chasing Dreams”
- “Travel”
- “Change Your Life”
- “Escape the Punishers: A Star Wars Tale”
- “TENGAinang Pag-ibig”
- “Airborne - Reborn”
IFDB
- “Wastes” by Nick Montfort
A 256-byte production from The Trope Tank. Requires Python 3. Sorry for the unorthodox file extension, .py3 -- it is meant to emphasize that this will only work with Python 3.* [“The Roscovian Palladium”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=8erhbiyyobmfk4zr) by *Ryan Veeder*
Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage.* [“Goosebumps-ish : Escape the House!”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=usdmc3zn3m4yt6f4) by *snail*
A fun goosebumps-inspired interactive adventure for kids and adults who wish they were kids. This adventure sees you wake up in a sinister (haunted? Possibly...) house in the middle of nowhere, with nothing...* [“Horror at Innsport”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=mkec8wsouzukyr2e) by *Karmic Shift Studios*
Horror at Innsport is an exploration adventure game inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, where players explore and investigate a large open world map, progressing though an engaging and exciting story....* [“Horror in the Darkness”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=bhb3puigaeurwemb) by *Karmic Shift Studios*
Horror in the Darkness is a short exploration and puzzle solving adventure game inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, where players explore and investigate, putting together clues and solve puzzles to...* [“Digital: A Love Story”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=1bwq5dgmy4vukzez) by *Christine Love*
A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.* [“Perishable”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=82j8qh4irc2q61q) by *Nina Freeman*
You can feel your presets tingling-* [“Brooklyn Trash King”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=x81omffbe5net8t8) by *Ben Esposito*
Social media, crowdfunding, and raccoons.* [“Nights in Boulder”](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=9zvbx05cldkdv16b) by *Zane Fulton*
Nights in Boulder is an interactive story-based game set in the years of 2010 & 2016. You're Matthew, desperately searching for your missing girlfriend after she never returned home from a night out with...* [«Take up the Crown RPG»](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=h5oxwgv9ynpj7xka) by *Noah Marshall*
It's your first day on the job. Your people are unhappy. Your neighbor is plotting against you. You're going to need either a lot of people or a lot of gold. How quickly can you unite the lands? Author's...* [«El Archipélago»](http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=itbz82mwebzqjfvm) by *Depresiv*
Release 2 de 'El Archipielago', ganadora de varios Premios Hispanos 2004 Tus cansados ojos recorren la isla, esa isla a la que recientemente has transportado tu torre y a ti mismo, con la esperanza de pasar...
Itch.io
- “YOUR ONLY VERB IS KILL” by DensetsuNoGomez
YOVK is an experimental satire game about inter-generational spite, grammar interpretation, and, killing* [“News Abuse”](https://esarkis.itch.io/news-abuse) by *esarkis*
A fake news management game* [“Time Magic-User Vampire”](https://christina-nordlander.itch.io/time-magic-user-vampire) by *Christina Nordlander*
Parser game about a vampire trying to get revenge on a usurper* [“Adventurer”](https://exodais.itch.io/adventurer) by *Exodaïs*
(The game is in French) Un jeu textuel de science fiction* [“Wayfarer”](https://ikroth.itch.io/wayfarer) by *Cameron McHenry*, *Ratata* and *Nuthen*
Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard. (2D top-down RPG)* [«Prison Text-Adventure (Demo Game)»](https://loworbitgames.itch.io/prison-text-adventure-demo-game) by *Low Orbit Games*
A simple text-adventure game made in Unity 5* [«Ninety Nine Bottles Of Beer»](https://99bottlesofbeer.itch.io/ninety-nine-bottles-of-beer-android-app) by *Kevin Loring*
Send SMS text message pranks! 99 Bottles of Beer App for Android!* [«Worldsmith: Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!»](https://interactivefables.itch.io/worldsmith-game-of-worlds-tournament) by *Interactive Fables*
Strategic card game in the Worldsmith universe