A Ninny
2005-05-31 15:00:03 UTC
Dear IF Community:
I am the Editor of a new newsletter serving the Adult Interactive
Fiction (AIF) community. The newsletter’s focus is to deliver news,
game reviews, and authorship guides to anyone interested in playing and
writing AIF. AIF, for those of you unfamiliar, is IF with (usually)
explicit sexual descriptions and situations. In other words: IF porn.
We are certainly under no illusions that AIF will appeal to everyone and
are not trying to foist our stuff on anyone who’s not interested (a
reason we usually keep our games and discussions off the main IF
Archives and message boards).
We are also under no illusions about AIF’s poor reputation in the
greater IF community. AIF games are usually regarded as being written
and coded poorly and to have paper-thin characters and stories. The
reputation is, unfortunately, not wholly inaccurate. There are quite a
few games in our roster that can be described this way. Wrapped up with
the poor reputation of AIF is the fact that many AIF games are developed
using ADRIFT – a system that has its own reputation problems – but that
is a topic for another forum.
There are, however, AIF games (even ADRIFT AIF games) that are really
quite great. More than a handful of AIF authors can not only write a
sentence, they can develop interesting settings, create deep characters,
design relevant and tricky puzzles, and interweave the porn into the
narrative so it doesn’t feel tacked on. Other authors simply write
great sex and can make at least halfway decent IF to go with it. In
other words, there’s some quality work going on.
So why this letter? Well, we figure there are quite a few IF players
who already play AIF. Most people don’t like to admit they look at
porn, but they do it anyway – which could explain why porn sites make
better profits than anyone else on the Internet but (of course) nobody I
know spends money on Internet porn. Others of you may simply be curious
about AIF but don’t really know where to start. Either way, the AIF
community is reaching out to you: we’re looking for more players, more
game authors, and more people to participate in our discussions.
Please start by looking over our newsletter. It has five issues
released so far, and in those there have been three instructional
articles addressed at authors related to testing and one instructional
article aimed at beta-testers (demonstrating our commitment to getting
our authors to make games that actually work), numerous game reviews
(demonstrating that even porndogs can discern good games from bad),
interviews with respected authors, and other related content. It also
has an issue dedicated to the recently-completed AIF awards.
For those of you interested in just jumping right into some games, I
highly recommend:
“Dexter Dixon: In Search of the Prussian Pussy” by A. Bomire, which is
a character-driven noir AIF written in TADS;
“The Backlot”, TADS, also by A. Bomire, a concept- and puzzle-oriented
game in which all IF is created in Hollywood-like studios;
“Sam Shooter III: Come in Sixty Seconds” and “Sam Shooter IV: Children
of the Damned” by One-Eyed Jack, both TADS, which are all-time favorites
of the AIF community, largely because they are literally laugh-out-loud
funny;
“Ideal Pacific Coast University” by NewKid, TADS, is a huge
recently-released game that has it all: great characters, puzzles, story
and porn;
“Gamma Gals” by Chris Cole, ADRIFT, is a lightweight romp that is
another favorite of AIF players for its terrific sex;
“British Fox and the Celebrity Abductions” by Lucilla Frost, ADRIFT and
(ported to) TADS, has a female PC and lots of tough puzzles and great
writing, but (warning) also has difficult rape scenes;
Of course, there’s the all-time classic “Moist” by Scarlet Herring –
that game has hooked many of our current AIF fans.
The newsletter can be found at http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org.
All known AIF games are indexed on http://www.geocities.com/sissyninny.
The web site for the 2004 Adult Interactive Fiction Awards is located at
http://erins.aifcommunity.org.
We welcome your comments, flames, compliments, etc., and thanks.
I am the Editor of a new newsletter serving the Adult Interactive
Fiction (AIF) community. The newsletter’s focus is to deliver news,
game reviews, and authorship guides to anyone interested in playing and
writing AIF. AIF, for those of you unfamiliar, is IF with (usually)
explicit sexual descriptions and situations. In other words: IF porn.
We are certainly under no illusions that AIF will appeal to everyone and
are not trying to foist our stuff on anyone who’s not interested (a
reason we usually keep our games and discussions off the main IF
Archives and message boards).
We are also under no illusions about AIF’s poor reputation in the
greater IF community. AIF games are usually regarded as being written
and coded poorly and to have paper-thin characters and stories. The
reputation is, unfortunately, not wholly inaccurate. There are quite a
few games in our roster that can be described this way. Wrapped up with
the poor reputation of AIF is the fact that many AIF games are developed
using ADRIFT – a system that has its own reputation problems – but that
is a topic for another forum.
There are, however, AIF games (even ADRIFT AIF games) that are really
quite great. More than a handful of AIF authors can not only write a
sentence, they can develop interesting settings, create deep characters,
design relevant and tricky puzzles, and interweave the porn into the
narrative so it doesn’t feel tacked on. Other authors simply write
great sex and can make at least halfway decent IF to go with it. In
other words, there’s some quality work going on.
So why this letter? Well, we figure there are quite a few IF players
who already play AIF. Most people don’t like to admit they look at
porn, but they do it anyway – which could explain why porn sites make
better profits than anyone else on the Internet but (of course) nobody I
know spends money on Internet porn. Others of you may simply be curious
about AIF but don’t really know where to start. Either way, the AIF
community is reaching out to you: we’re looking for more players, more
game authors, and more people to participate in our discussions.
Please start by looking over our newsletter. It has five issues
released so far, and in those there have been three instructional
articles addressed at authors related to testing and one instructional
article aimed at beta-testers (demonstrating our commitment to getting
our authors to make games that actually work), numerous game reviews
(demonstrating that even porndogs can discern good games from bad),
interviews with respected authors, and other related content. It also
has an issue dedicated to the recently-completed AIF awards.
For those of you interested in just jumping right into some games, I
highly recommend:
“Dexter Dixon: In Search of the Prussian Pussy” by A. Bomire, which is
a character-driven noir AIF written in TADS;
“The Backlot”, TADS, also by A. Bomire, a concept- and puzzle-oriented
game in which all IF is created in Hollywood-like studios;
“Sam Shooter III: Come in Sixty Seconds” and “Sam Shooter IV: Children
of the Damned” by One-Eyed Jack, both TADS, which are all-time favorites
of the AIF community, largely because they are literally laugh-out-loud
funny;
“Ideal Pacific Coast University” by NewKid, TADS, is a huge
recently-released game that has it all: great characters, puzzles, story
and porn;
“Gamma Gals” by Chris Cole, ADRIFT, is a lightweight romp that is
another favorite of AIF players for its terrific sex;
“British Fox and the Celebrity Abductions” by Lucilla Frost, ADRIFT and
(ported to) TADS, has a female PC and lots of tough puzzles and great
writing, but (warning) also has difficult rape scenes;
Of course, there’s the all-time classic “Moist” by Scarlet Herring –
that game has hooked many of our current AIF fans.
The newsletter can be found at http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org.
All known AIF games are indexed on http://www.geocities.com/sissyninny.
The web site for the 2004 Adult Interactive Fiction Awards is located at
http://erins.aifcommunity.org.
We welcome your comments, flames, compliments, etc., and thanks.