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mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Tue, 12Jul17 21:01
by Venom
Hi guys and girls

Minicomp games has been released trough the aifarchive

so what is it?
Minicomp is a yearly competition between aif writers

what are the competing in?
Best Concept
Best Writing
Best Characters
Best Sex (Scenes)
Best Technical
Best Enjoyment

who is competing?

The After School Special by Armsteadhammerschlag
Behavioral Psychology by Rip_CPU
A Dog's Life by Gary Plume
The Drunken Harlot by kkennon
Gifts of Phallius: The Final Sacrifice by GoblinBoy

where can i get the games?
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http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2012minicomp.zip


what do i need to play the games?
The After School Special & The Drunken Harlot => ADRIFT 5
Behavioral Psychology => Webbrowser
A Dog's Life => Glulx comptabile player
The Final Sacrifice => TADS

where can i find the programs that i need to play those games?

ADRIFT 5 => Full install
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http://www.adrift.co/cgi/adrift.cgi


Webbrowser => Your are using one if you are reading this

Glulx => Diffrent runners are available i prefer wingluxe
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http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/glulx/interpreters/glulxe


TADS
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http://www.tads.org/tads3.htm


where can i vote?
You can vote till July 30th, 2012 @
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http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/minicomp

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Wed, 12Jul18 18:49
by spankeer
Hi, where I think these games?

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Wed, 12Jul18 23:10
by clawixp
spankeer wrote:Hi, where I think these games?


I don't follow.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Thu, 12Jul19 17:52
by tonytiger
Could some one post the first few commands for A Dogs Life, I'm new to aif games and could use a start I keep either killing him or dying my self. Other than the commands in the read me what other commands do I need if any. I googled about these type of games before but just never seem to get into them, to obtuse or I lack the imagination required are there any simple introductory type (sexy) games to get the ball rolling with.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Thu, 12Jul19 18:52
by fensome7
tonytiger wrote:Could some one post the first few commands for A Dogs Life, I'm new to aif games and could use a start I keep either killing him or dying my self. Other than the commands in the read me what other commands do I need if any. I googled about these type of games before but just never seem to get into them, to obtuse or I lack the imagination required are there any simple introductory type (sexy) games to get the ball rolling with.


The thing with most AIF games is to read and try to take in what your actually reading so that things stand out such as; Bold words, sometimes you might enter a room, leave it and then re-enter and there will be a new object in the room or the description might be a little different, Or in the case of the beginning scene to this game the ending to the paragraph tries to pull your attention towards an object which could be interactable "he doesn't notice that his tie is clinging to his sleeve and is now sticking through the bars", so as you see its trying to pull your attention towards his tie as it is the last thing you read in the description.

So you have to think about how you could interact with the object. So we read a list of the commands and try the command that seems most likely "bite tie." Next a description comes up about how he is being choked and about to die and so you need to release him, because you have got the tie by biting it, the tie is an object and to release an object you need to drop it or put it down or on somewhere. In this case we "drop tie" or try any of the other verbs listed.

That should bring you to the scene were you are still alive and there is a new NPC (Non-Player Character) in the room with you.

Hope this helps, If you need anymore help just repost on the thread and im sure someone will answer it.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Thu, 12Jul19 20:58
by ExLibris
tonytiger wrote:Could some one post the first few commands for A Dogs Life, I'm new to aif games and could use a start I keep either killing him or dying my self. Other than the commands in the read me what other commands do I need if any. I googled about these type of games before but just never seem to get into them, to obtuse or I lack the imagination required are there any simple introductory type (sexy) games to get the ball rolling with.


You'd be best off joining the aifarchive Yahoo group. A Dog's Life has been the most discussed game this year, especially the various undocumented commands. If you're new to AIF you might find one of the other games easier to start with, as they're a bit more straight-forward.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Fri, 12Jul20 01:13
by thk
I casted a few votes towards a 'Dog's Life' actually. However, most of my votes went to 'After School Special'.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sat, 12Jul21 19:36
by fensome7
Out of curiosity has anyone managed to get through Goblinboys "Final Sacrifice" fight scenes yet without having to use the undo command?

It feels like i have tried every combination of Stat increases, but no matter what the initial 2 are or the 1 on the second fight scene, just will not work, getting really p****d off when it says i have scored a critical hit but only 1hp loss and then having 7-10hp taken off me by the general, ending the scene with no chance of achieving the bonus (whatever it is).

Thanks for any help.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 02:12
by thk
@fensome

Don't be conservative with potions. Think about which ones benefit you at that moment. Do it right and you'll slay many foes. Oh! Also! Remember that thing the queen did with Morchek's blade in GoP3?... do some of that.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 11:53
by fensome7
@THK

I must have killed about 20+ valkin in the first fight scene before i had to retreat back to the temple.

It's not many foes that i need to slay, it's one foe at the minute the general. I can get to him easily enough but i can't get any further than him without having to use the undo command.

I know about the ritual, which i have done and i know which potions i need to reach the general but i don't know which potion it is that i need to use to get past him. Like i say im inflicting 1-2hp damage from a critical hit if i am lucky, but then the general goes and scores a critical hit and takes off 10hp. I get through the captain and the assasin perfectly fine, but can't get further.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 15:13
by nezumi69
I believe I chose multi-attack and regenerate initially. Only fought off 4-6 valkin before retreating. Took the 'harder to hit' skill during the second fight batch, drank the healing potion during the second fight, and drank the higher damage potion either at the beginning of the second or third fight (don't remember which, sorry, although I don't think it matters since I still had it going for general). I saved the last pot because I wasn't sure if I'd need it for a third round of battles, so it went unused. Never had to undo, although my last hit took the general down while I had 3-5 hps.

I believe Goblinboy said skills chosen shouldn't matter too much, but you should probably drink both combat potions early in the inner stage combats, which should last through all of them, and the heal up when you need to by drinking the third.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 18:35
by fensome7
Finally!! finally managed to defeat the general, assassin, captain and 24 valkin soldiers, however i only got 5/6 of the achievements.

Death Machine
Strong Warrior
Fearsome Warrior
Ultimate warrior
Sword Maiden

Any chance someone could tell me the name of the achievment i'm missing? Not how to get the achievment! Just what it's called. Thank you.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 20:57
by ExLibris
fensome7 wrote:Finally!! finally managed to defeat the general, assassin, captain and 24 valkin soldiers, however i only got 5/6 of the achievements.

Death Machine
Strong Warrior
Fearsome Warrior
Ultimate warrior
Sword Maiden

Any chance someone could tell me the name of the achievment i'm missing? Not how to get the achievment! Just what it's called. Thank you.


The final achievement is called Ultimate Slut!, which probably gives you some idea of who's supposed to do it.

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Sun, 12Jul22 22:06
by thk
That's right. When fighting the valkin, you have to please all of them...

*insert trololo face here*

Re: mincomp 2012

PostPosted: Tue, 12Jul24 04:59
by xravensfan
I can get Adrift 5.0 to work. some error code... an exception that can not be handled...

Dog's life is weird. But he did do a LOT of work on it.

Goblin Boy is good stuff. always is. I love the detail he pours into his works.

The Psychology game was simple.

Working on figuring out a way to play the other 2...