Re: The IF Gates are Closed. Let the voting Begin!!


25 Sep 1995 08:58:28 GMT

In article <DF46GL.41M@ansoft.com>, Palmer Davis <palmer@ansoft.com> wrote:
>In article <foo>, baf@laraby.tiac.net (Carl Muckenhoupt) wrote:
>>HAH! I have yet to play all the TADS games, but my decision on the
>>Inform ones was easy.
>
>Agreed. I haven't looked at the TADS division yet, but the Inform
>entry pool was *awfully* thin, with only one entry that was close
>to the level of quality that I had expected.

Might I ask just what level of quality you had expected?

IMAO, most of the entries _were_ the quality you'd expect from amateur
writers/programmers, several of whom are total beginners, who are
given a very short time to write a game. Some of the games actaully
impressed me by being of a much _higher_ quality than I had expected
(and no, Virginia, I'm not referring to my own entry :-)).

I'm not taking what you (Palmer) write personally, since my entry is
written in TADS and you're speaking of the Inform entries; still,
you'll have to give us poor authors a break. "Uncle Zebulon's Will"
was written in slightly less than three weeks so of course it can't meet
the high standards set by games like "Curses" and "The Legend
Lives".

This, of course, doesn't mean that one shouldn't set high standards;
in my reviews of the entries (hopefully to be published in SPAG) I'll
apply the same standards to them as to any other game. However, given
the circumstances of the competition I'm quite impressed with most of
the entries.

Magnus