The week in IF #48

ROTW: Michaelsollien reviews The Elysium Enigma

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QOTW:

I’m terribly sorry, but Colossal Cave is closed. Our hours are:

MON – FRI: 0:00 to 11:00
17:00 to 24:00
SAT – SUN: Open all day
HOLIDAYS: Open all day

— @Renga in Blue

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New Releases

“Release 1.2 of Trizbort, an IF mapping tool for Windows”
http://trizbort.genstein.net/#download

“Parchment [web interpreter] has a new domain”
http://community.livejournal.com/gnusto/22335.html

“INSTEAD 1.3.4 released”
http://instead.syscall.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6202#p6202

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Design

“How do you adapt existing story for text adventure style?”
http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2137

“How long is too long?”
http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2138

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Technical

“Testing extensions” [Inform 7]
http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2099

“Real time parsing I7 demo”
http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2142

“Introducing Vorple”
http://nitku.net/blog/2011/03/introducing-vorple/

“[pyphiverses] Dimensiones de texto en acción” [from design in progress of new IF system]
http://foro.caad.es/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4649&start=0

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Community

“PAX East IF photos”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17088484@N00/sets/72157626257632236/

“Interactive Fiction Games Day, featuring ‘Colossal Cave Adventure’” [a broad review of IF
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2011/03/interactive-fiction-games-day-featuring.html

“Quick links to PAX panel videos”
http://groups.google.com/group/boston-if/t/84fd997e88c2aa3e

“Call for Beta Testers - The Promise”
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_frm/thread/86b8090dd07938e9#

“Extra comments about Crowther’s original Adventure”
http://bluerenga.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/extra-comments-about-crowthers-original-adventure/

“ifrus podcast, issue 04”
http://forum.ifiction.ru/viewtopic.php?pid=21303#p21303

“URQ demo competition” [Russian language]
http://urq.borda.ru/?1-0-0-00000368-000-0-0-1300129256