Recently, I’ve been scribbling down notes on overlarge index cards to remind me of things to do. In case people are curious, here’s what my IFWiki cardset currently looks like (and I wish there was a ✓ character — hm, I suppose I can use √):
_ missing a few AIF Comps as per Delron’s AIF comp page (2009 Christmas Micro Comp, 2002 AIF Pre-Comp (?))
_ simplfy the genre templates so we don’t have both {{fantasy}} and {{fantasync}}
_ review the Piracy 2.0 page
_ “composite room” ? “partitioned room”? } multi-room
_ //pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/ is the new official web page for the card. Zarf sez it’s okay to put on Starters page. Also, there’s a CC license on it. CC Attribution Share Alike 3.0
_ JiGcomp games are no longer “in comp”
_ JiGcomp game pages need placements
√ The Feelies //ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1321
_ TWIFcomp entries
_ training sequence
_ new Phoenix releases (9 games on ifarchive – rereleased 4 & 5 new one to go)
√ //ostatic.com/hugonomicon – maintained by Hugella
` The Man in the Rain – Feb 4, 2010, TADS 2 by Karl Adamson //bedroomcoder.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/the-main-in-the-rain-text-adventure-puzzle/
√ IceCreamJonsey ≡ Recchi
_ TWIF authors need to be credited
_ sf.net/projects/zlr (by vaporware)
√ Seattle IF newsgroup //groups.google.com/group/seattle-if
_ “synonym sickness” (see IFDB review of Myth)
_ “mini-game”
_ “Handy Kit” reimplements some of Spider and Web in I7
_ EGC Paper Chase
_ aggregate(d), composite, partitioned } multi-room
` www.inthecompanyofgrues/ is Neophyte’s blog
` saucersofmud.wordpress.com is Matt Weiner’s blog
` Matt Wigdahl’s is at //www.wigdahl.net/quern/
_ preparing to speak about IF
- – job interview-like questions
- – make a list of topics that might discuss
- – “elevator speech” (1-3 minute of exposition on a topic)
√ SF Bay Area IF Group //www.meetup.com/sf-bay-area-interactive-fiction (also at Twitter & Facebook)
_ what’s TerpEtude (Rob @ Waterpoint using it to debug his MOO Z-machine)
_ accretive PC (Varicella, Lock & Key, Spider & Web, Make It Good (?))
_ Game or story? Easy or difficult? Good for newcomers?
√ YOMIN: (vaporware’s) I6/ZIL IDE //yomin.sf.net
√ update authors of Grand Prix 2010 games that they wrote them.
√ Category:Floyd authors
_ results of JiGcomp arentyet on game pages, author pages
√ Add Ka and 43 to Short Titles
√ Add Violet to “Colours” theme
_ add links to [IFArchive]/mini-comps/gdc7 for JIGcmp games
√ Roofed takes place in 2040 (Games by years their story takes place)
√ Roofed “website” www.ghostswithshitjobs.com
_ Nitku would like the option to download the IFWiki DB (He thinks it’s just a setting in MediaWiki)
_ do game pages for PAX Speed have links to CF transcript?
_ people who participated at PAX East (panels, readings) need crediting on their pages
_ make sure PAX people’s pages also link to their PAX related blogs and pics
√ 2009 XYZZY Awards ceremony transcript
_ Speed-IF y=1/x game pages
_ Category:Inform 7 extensions
_ ADRIFT modules ??
_ T3′s old list is going
_ promote Zarf’s card on Starters page
_ more on Interpreters
_ Front page – PAX, Get Lamp, USB, Outreach
_ Grand Prix 2010 status?
_ /eblong.com/zarf/tmp/play-if-card/
√ T3 on LJ //community.livejournal.com/tads3/
√ add PAX speed game pages
√ add PAX speed game credits to People pages
√ Spring Thing? Apr 8 / 9
√ latest ADRIFT games
√ Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma was released out of speedif to IFDB
_ Meretzky is in Lobsters On A Plane
√ Find Andy Part 1 (Little Britain) by TommoHawk, 9-Mar; Ad4
√ GeoQuest by Dan Munroe Rel 4 090928 I7 //geocache-if.appspot.com/geoquest.html
_ all testers of Broken Legs must be credited on their pages
_ Post-Post-Comp results!
√ Merchandise category? Swag? — Commercial games? – Feelies, T-shirts, ADRIFT – Prizes, Golden Banana – Books?
√ move Emily’s Cheese Directory to IFWiki
√ http://www.darkweb.com/~benrg/if-decompilers/ (including Mrifk (decompiles Glx) and SCADS 2)
√ Cat:Commercial games
![A cropped piece of one of my handdrawn maps. This one is from Zork II. [Photo credit: Jason Scott, 2007]](http://www.plover.net/~davidw/img/zork2peek.png)
Wowza.
Thank you for all you do for the community, David.
Comment by Jacqueline — September 4, 2010 @ 7:15 pm