discussion Are there still AIF games being made? (TADS, ADRIFT, TWINE, etc.)

[vonraschke]

I used to love playing AIF games (Adult Interactive Fiction) many years ago, they were mostly text-based, but the best ones included pictures like the ones made by GoblinBoy. Games like High School Dreams, Meteor, and The Tessliss Equation by GoblinBoy and others like Peril in Pleasantville. Working Man and Mystic Rhythms. Others without images were also pretty great (if you didn't mind using your imagination), like Camp Windy Lake, The Magician's Apprentice, and the various short-but-sweet Christopher Cole games with different scenarios like sleepovers, pool parties, and summer flings with your friend's hot mom. After GoblinBoy retired I drifted towards the newer Renpy and RPGM games, but does anyone still make these sorts of games? A guy by the name of "Arthur Saxon" was kind of making these sorts of games using TWINE up until a few years ago, but almost every game of his contains fetishes I despise except for Orphan, which is completely free of them (although some of his games at least let you avoid some fetishes by placing you on alternate story paths). So yeah, is AIF a thing anymore or is it still pretty much dead?

 

[DMarc1387]

Can't answer your ultimate question, but I too, remember AIF fondly. I will have to look for "Orphan", I'm not familiar with Arthur Saxon. Chris Cole, (really nice guy), was my favorite developer - "Camp Windy Lake" was/is my all-time favorite game. Though I loved GoblinBoy's, (also really nice), work too.

"The Magician's Apprentice" was an amazing 1st game, I really expected to see AIF continue with such an effort??

Imagination is so much more vivid than art!

Edit: Can't talk AIF without mentioning NewKid & ABomire! Both are giants.

 

[AlBetGam]

Are there any active sites for these games (in general I mean, not just individual authors' sites)?

 

[vonraschke]

Are there any active sites for these games (in general I mean, not just individual authors' sites)?

You made me curious so I just checked. Unfortunately it looks like the excellent, yet ancient, delron.co.uk database of games shut down last year, but there appears to be a few newer ones that serve a similar purpose where you can search for games:

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For ifdb it seems to list everything so even while you can search names and tags to see adult games, it also lists stuff like Renpy games and other games available for sale.

 

[Ashield]

If I understand what you are looking for, most of this type of thing has gone to HTML games. Most of which are mediocre real porn games, but there are a few good ones out there.

 

[vonraschke]

If I understand what you are looking for, most of this type of thing has gone to HTML games. Most of which are mediocre real porn games, but there are a few good ones out there.

Not really interested in those games that just take real porn pics and use that as their art.

Also, the old Delron site can still be accessed by the wayback machine:

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It's got handy things like walkthroughs for various games.

 

[Ashield]

Not really interested in those games that just take real porn pics and use that as their art.

Also, the old Delron site can still be accessed by the wayback machine:

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It's got handy things like walkthroughs for various games.

I will check that out. That said there are still a few good ones out there. Might be worth filtering by HTML and either 2dcg or just -real porn if you want to make sure you catch text only games like accidental mind, and checking out the list.

Here are a few that I remember were fun from a few different types of games

Silent Echo - this is more rpg than cyoa
Abyss Diver Interactive - I remember this being mechanically interesting but its been a while
Alchemist Mina - More or less a text based alchemy game with 2d art to supplement
Transylvania - A looping horror themed game with transformation elements

 

[DoctorWells]

I do like the old AIF and text based games, but now on the occassion I do find them they're usually based around transformation and that's not my thing

 

[vonraschke]

I do like the old AIF and text based games, but now on the occassion I do find them they're usually based around transformation and that's not my thing

Yeah, I remember looking into QSP years ago when TADS and ADRIFT games were dying out and it seemed like every QSP game focused on transformation