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From: jlauten@netcom.com (Jennifer Lautenschlager)
Subject: Re: Inform Competition
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whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu (Gerry Kevin Wilson) writes:
>1.) Each game must have its source code submitted along with it, so that 
>players who do not have a Mac, MSDOS, or Unix system can still read the 
>game, weigh its merits, and participate in the voting.  Do not include 
>any standard kit library files, only the changes you make to them.  You 
>may wish to comment your code more fully in order to give it a better 
>chance among the voters who can't play it.

I'll freely admit that I doubt I'll be participating in the contest
(it's an issue of time), but I have been watching the rules evolve and
I have a possible suggestion. I know that the old Infocom games could
be set up so their output goes to the printer. Is it easily possible, in 
Tads and/or Inform, to redirect output to a text file, say? I know that
I for one would have an easier time evaluating a game if I saw a transcript
of a game session, as opposed to wading through source code.

To be fair, you might have to give all authors the option of including a
transcript. I don't know if it's practical or desirable, but I just thought
I'd toss the idea in.

-Jennifer
"And you thought this contest would start in 1995..." :-)
