Reposted from the aifarchive Yahoo group:
Welcome to the 2011 AIF Mini-comp. We have 7 games for your playing enjoyment this year. I think we have a pretty good mix of genres and types of game, and some pretty good ones to boot. Without further ado, here are the games.
Ashley's Story by Rip_CPU (Inform 7 - Blorbed Z code)
Buffy: Before the Date by Archer (ADRIFT 3.9)
Last Horizons by GoblinBoy (TADS 2)
The Princess and the Dragon by RogueAIF (TADS 3)
Redskirt II: Another Piece of the Action by Begferdeth (Inform 7 - Blorbed Z code)
SS Whore by The Blue Satyr (ADRIFT 4)
The Wingman by Dark Horse (ADRIFT 3.9)
The games are packaged together in a file called "2011minicomp.zip". It is in the files section, under comps at both AIFGames.com, and the AIF Archive. You can also download it from the Inside Erin site here:
http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/2011minicomp.zipIn addition to diversity of the games themselves, there was also good sprinkling of game systems used to create them. For those of you who may not already have the interpreters to play them all, here is where you can find them.
You can find the ADRIFT interpreters at the ADRIFT website here:
http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgiClick "Older Versions" at the bottom of the page for a 3.9 version.
For the TADS games, you can find downloads for both versions 2 and 3 here:
http://www.tads.org/There are tons of interpreters out there for the z-code games. Personally, I use WinFrotz to play them, but you can find lots of options at the site below. Just click on your operating system on the left for a list of downloads.
http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/interpreters.htmlThe voting ballot is set up and ready to go. Once you have played the games, don't forget to drop by and show your support by voting for your favorites. If you weren't around last year, we've streamlined the process now and you only have to vote for your top three games in each category so it should be even less trouble than it used to be.
When you're ready, you can vote here:
http://newsletter.aifcommunity.org/minicomp/Finally, if you enjoy the games, why don't you consider sending the authors a little feedback?