Topic by Orin 2015-09-06 06:42:55

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Hi all,
What is the answer to the Adrift forum Spambot question? I just want to get on the forums and not necessarily comb Google.
What is the most famous Interactive Fiction magic word?
I thought it was undue, you know, like magically undue a turn to redo it.
It's a shame the accessibility bug for Adrift 5 only got five votes. I hope Campbel is using NVDA to get these issues fixed.
Or trying to get them fixed, anyway. Adrift seems by far the easiest to use as far as actually writing a game. I'm curious to know how Bbben packs his Adrift games into single executable files.

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Reply by blindncool 2015-09-06 19:02:10 (edited by blindncool 2015-09-06 19:04:08)

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Hi. The most famous magic word in IF is xyzzy. Also, who is Bbben?

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

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Reply by Orin 2015-09-06 22:58:28

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Bbben is an Adult Interactive Fiction author that lately, has been combining Interactive Fiction with the gameplay of a Visual Novel. He uses Adrift 5. Playing his games are reasonably accessible. The Blorb files usually don't work for me though, so you'll have to get his executable which I guess is just Adrift Runner with his game. If Adrift 5 was accessible, I want to do something similar without visuals and Erotica, of course. Twine's 2.0 story format Harlowe seems good too, but the Twine 2 editor remains largely inaccessible at least for me, even the online version.
And ah, so that's where that word and the Zizzy awards come from.

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Reply by blindncool 2015-09-08 02:11:58

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Ah, well that's interesting. I really hope Campbell is working on making ADRIFT 5 more accessible.

“Can we be casual in the work of God — casual when the house is on fire, and people are in danger of being burned?” — Duncan Campbell
“There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God – admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.” — William Wilberforce

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Reply by Guitarman 2015-09-08 05:31:09

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Hi
Haha I got the word it's xzzy. It's used in a lot of if games.
Hth.

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Reply by Socheat 2015-09-15 14:36:23

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@blindncool, thanks for sharing this magical word. I didn't know it before.

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