Emily Short's Walkthrough Comp

    At http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/walkthrough2.htm

                       Article by Sue

Emily Short's name often comes up IF sites. She's written (or 
co-authored) numerous games, many of which have great titles 
like Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, A Day 
for Fresh Sushi and ... wait for it ... Max Blaster and Doris 
de Lightning against the Parrot Creatures of Venus. 

Her name cropped up as the originator of a mini-comp called the 
Walkthrough Comp back in 2001. The idea behind this was as 
follows. She provided the walkthrough for a game and people 
had to create a game, or a game transcript, to match. She 
received six games and nine walkthroughs, all of which can be 
downloaded as a zipped package from 
http://www.plover.net/~emily/walkthrough/walkthrough.zip

She graded the games herself and made awards. The winning 
game was Constraints by Stephen Granade and the winning 
transcript Time Bastard by Matt Fendahleen with an honourable 
mention for Persistence de la Vision as she found it very hard to 
decide between the two. There was also a "Special Award for 
Causing me the most Grief" for Andrew Plotkin's Lighan ses 
Lion! Two transcripts were received after the closing date. 

I thought this was a brilliant idea. The walkthrough given in the 
first place didn't have any punctuation so even deciding how to 
break up the text was quite a challenge to those who entered 
the competition. I found the transcripts really entertaining to 
read. Check it out for an entertaining ... well, as long as you 
like really. A few minutes to skim through some of the transcripts 
and get the gist of them, or several hours playing the games. 




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