If only pictures were common back in the glory days of AIF... Just a few months ago I started playing them and the lack of illustrations broke my heart. The stories and scenarios were miles ahead of anything that's being released today (not that I don't like modern games or apriciate the hard work that goes into creating all the lovely ladies we all love).
Collection ADRIFT Completed Encounter 1-4 [Christopher Cole]
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The 'can't put ladder under window' problem is (probably) because you're trying to run the game in a newer version of ADRIFT than the game was designed for. If you run the game using the 3.9 runner, it should work fine; it *will not* work correctly when running in the 4.0+ runners.
You can give her commands by typing "rochelle" before something you want her to do. These old AIF games are tricky until you learn the basics, and even then they can be a verb and noun hunting nightmare.
The lack of pictures is exactly why AIFs are what they are. They have to rely on the writing. Something that's sorely lacking in nearly all the modern games. It annoys me how brilliant recent offerings like The Last Sovereign get ignored for not having pictures but if you shit out 5 minutes of content with pictures people will flock to you in droves.
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Ahhh old school AIF. When people made complete games rather than put out alphas and tell you "Pay me and I MIGHT (but probably won't) finish the game... eventually.
You should play "Working Man" (I think that's what it's called) It's got loads of content and a lot of CG as well. It's really good. Definitely recommend that one.
Newkid's games are fantasic. If you have never played them. You should. start with this Ideal New England Prep School then try Generic New York Apartment
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Try GoblinBoy's School Dreams 3, Meteor, Last Horizon, Gifts of Phallus 3 and Tesliss Equation. All in TADS.
With SD3 he took AIF at least 5 levels higher then it was before.
Strong writing, beautiful pictures and bugfree.
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Ok, cool thanks all for some of these AIF recommendations.
SD3 is amazing, I played it earlier this year, and am doing another run through now. I thought it was really interesting for having a character in it who was corrupted in an earlier game, but wasn't particularly thrilled about her whole situation. It's a shame he never did more, because there was a lot of stuff to mine in that series, not only Becky's sister, but stuff with Alison as well.
As far as these, I played the Study Group one so far is it was the most up my alley. It was OK, but I do have to say the interactivity is much worse than GoblinBoy's stuff. Not bad, but still better writing than every single game in the popular games section.
SD3 is amazing, I played it earlier this year, and am doing another run through now. I thought it was really interesting for having a character in it who was corrupted in an earlier game, but wasn't particularly thrilled about her whole situation. It's a shame he never did more, because there was a lot of stuff to mine in that series, not only Becky's sister, but stuff with Alison as well.
As far as these, I played the Study Group one so far is it was the most up my alley. It was OK, but I do have to say the interactivity is much worse than GoblinBoy's stuff. Not bad, but still better writing than every single game in the popular games section.
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The Encounter series is from 2002-2003 while GoblinBoys games, 11 as far as I know, were created between 2006 and 2013.
Another difference is the engine. With TADS there is much more possible then with Adrift 3.9.
Seeing all those old games on my hard drive, I think I will play some of them today.
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