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"This is for suggesting games released in 2015 which you think might be worth considering for Best Use of Multimedia in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination. The category will still be text-entry, and games not..."
by verityvirtue - 39 votes for 39 games, last vote on April 10, 2016; created on February 11, 2016"This is for suggesting settings from games released 2015 which you think might be worth considering for Best Setting in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination. The category will still be text-entry, and games not..."
by verityvirtue - 14 votes for 13 games, last vote on April 30, 2016; created on February 11, 2016"This is for suggesting puzzles from games released 2015 who you think might be worth considering for Best Individual Puzzle in the XYZZY awards. Leave a brief description of the puzzle in the comments. This is not a zeroth-round..."
by verityvirtue - 18 votes for 18 games, last vote on April 30, 2016; created on February 11, 2016"This is for suggesting player characters from games released 2015 who you think might be worth considering for Best PC/Best Individual PC in the XYZZY awards. Leave the name (or namelessness) of the PC (or PCs) in the comment on your..."
by verityvirtue - 25 votes for 24 games, last vote on April 9, 2016; created on February 11, 2016"This is for suggesting non-player characters from games released 2015 who you think might be worth considering for Best NPCs/Best Individual NPC in the XYZZY awards. Leave the name (or namelessness) of the NPC (or NPCs) in the comment on..."
by MathBrush - 61 votes for 24 games, last vote on September 5, 2022; created on December 10, 2015"I've only played a few choicescript games, but I loved Creatures Such as We, The Race, and Scarlet Sails. What can you recommend?"
by frofroggy - 5 votes for 3 games, last vote on January 13, 2016; created on December 5, 2015"I'm looking for IF with puzzles that are solved by literacy in a non-IF software tool. The story should communicate an experience that the user might have a hard time experiencing themselves without the IF providing a guiding narrative..."
by Anya Johanna DeNiro - 6 votes for 4 games, last vote on August 6, 2022; created on November 19, 2015"Looking for games that did more than bug fixes or extra polishing in their post-IF Comp releases, but rather made substantial changes in scope or content for the better. It could be a middling Comp game made great or an already good game..."
by CMG - 22 votes for 17 games, last vote on January 9, 2024; created on November 18, 2015"After playing Hard Puzzle by Ade McT, which centers around assembling a "milking stool" under rather sinister circumstances, it struck me how odd it can be to feature milking in a game. This poll is for any games that include or..."
by MathBrush - 27 votes for 20 games, last vote on January 1, 2023; created on October 25, 2015"Homebrew games don't get a lot of love here, but some of them are pretty good. What is your favorite homebrew game?"
by Bruno Dias - 17 votes for 13 games, last vote on July 21, 2018; created on October 20, 2015"I'm looking for hypertexts that make heavy use of stretchtext and related effects to tell their story - Links that add, remove, or alter text within a passage. Swan Hill for instance makes heavy use of this, and my own work does too, but..."
by verityvirtue - 24 votes for 15 games, last vote on August 12, 2022; created on October 11, 2015"Looking for IF which uses procedural generation (? I'm not a programmer) to derive its writing, story, etc."
by glaap - 4 votes for 3 games, last vote on July 23, 2018; created on October 6, 2015"As I'm currently working on a game that tries to modernize the text adventure genre in a way that it gets closer to movies while still maintaining the idea that you just have a text interface, i'd like to do research on the most..."
by blue/green - 10 votes for 8 games, last vote on December 9, 2015; created on September 13, 2015"Most of the games I see on the "appropriate for children" lists are pure parser IF. Are there kid friendly games that have a more accessible interface? CYOA, hyperlink, hybrid parser--any interface that offers some help in figuring out..."
by blue/green - 41 votes for 39 games, last vote on March 29, 2023; created on September 9, 2015"If someone were going to play one IF you've written, which one would you recommend? This can be based on any criteria you choose: personal favorite, highest rated, most representative, most accessible, whatever. (You can always change..."
by MathBrush - 22 votes for 18 games, last vote on August 2, 2022; created on September 7, 2015"I'm interested in games where the reviewers 'just don't get it', where part of the game that is essential or hidden got overlooked. I'm thinking of Scary House Amulet as a prime example, where a solid parody game is passed off as poorly..."
by BearWithMe - 1 vote, last vote on September 1, 2015; created on September 1, 2015"As a child I remember visiting my next door neighbor, who had a text adventure, which was sold together with a novel (i.e a real fictional book). The story was something about a boy, who perhaps lost his family, ran away from home or..."
by Floating Info - 11 votes for 7 games, last vote on November 25, 2017; created on August 26, 2015"What are some lesser known games that were first to have a feature that was later perfected by a more well known game?"
by MathBrush - 67 votes for 24 games, last vote on February 8, 2024; created on August 2, 2015"I'm looking for the game that you played that had the most content (not necessarily being stuck on a puzzle for a long time)"
by Merk - 63 votes for 33 games, last vote on September 30, 2023; created on July 29, 2015"Two that come to mind, which I haven't played in years and may be remembering wrong, are Moebius and All Things Devours. Games with fail states, by their nature, fit the bill from a mechanical level, but I'm curious about games where..."