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J. J. Guest works a freelance animator and compositor with more than ten years experience in the industry. He has worked on hundreds of television commercials, TV idents and short films and is an expert with Adobe After Effects. He is also an accomplished web designer and developer with eight months experience at online retailer figleaves.com. In his spare time he writes interactive fiction games (for which he has won competitions and been nominated for several awards) and has recently written and directed a short live action film, The Visitation starring Paul Darrow. He also writes about himself in the third person, which is the first sign of megalomania. |
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The rather brilliant programmer Mark J. Tilford (a.k.a. Ralphmerridew) has created taf2inf, a Perl script that performs a simple ADRIFT to Inform conversion, and has used my game Goldilocks is a FOX! to demonstrate its power! The upshot of this is that a brand new, all bells and whistles version of the game is now available. The conversion required a significant amount of hand-coding to complete, giving us the opportunity to make a lot of improvements to the game, including Mark's new auto-mapping system. Staggering back from yet another wild student party, blonde bombshell Goldilocks decides to take a shortcut through the enchanted forest. All she really wants is a nice hot bowl of porridge and somewhere to sleep off her hangover - but something tells her that quaint little cottage isn't as innocent as it seems... Goldilocks is a FOX! is a zany romp through the world of fairytales. Along the way you'll meet a host of familiar characters, albeit not quite how you remember them! |
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The 8-bit Acorn Electron was my first ever computer; I taught myself to program in BBC Basic and even wrote a few text adventure games, most of which I never finished! Now, Dave Edwards, Electron enthusuast and head of the Electron User Group has converted my game To Hell in a Hamper to run on the Electron, BBC B, B+ and Master 128. The game was released with EUG #67, an issue of the online magazine for Electron users, and a review can be found at Acorn Electron World. The Electron port is a very faithful copy and Dave has done an amazing job of converting it to run on the 32k machine. Dave said: "I played the java version of it and, seeing as there were no rooms or maps, I thought it would be neat to put it onto the BBC/Elk as there's no adventure like it available for either. I have to say, as you can tell by the review, that I thought THIAH was terrific fun - very funny, and also a very good adventure for a complete beginner who might kind of think IF boring. It made me laugh out loud on many occasions!!" |
