Welcome! The games are released! Here is everything you need to know for getting the 2012 Hugo MiniComp games.
UPDATE! What the %!$# is this but more games? See below for the two other additions!
Hugo is a language you can use to make text adventures. Hugo games work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You just need to get the right interpreter. We are recommending the interpreter Hugor to play Hugo games. If you don’t have a Hugo interpreter, just click that link to download one for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X!
Here are the games for the Hugo MiniComp. Click each title to download the games individually.
Party Arty, Man of La Munchies by Jonathan Blask
World Builder by Paul Lee
The Hugo Clock by Jason McWright
Spinning by Rob O’Hara
Tales of a Clockwork Boy by Marius Müller
Retro-Nemesis by Robb Sherwin
And a game called Teleporter Test by Paul Robinson that introduces teleportation to Hugo players everywhere! Screw you, Cardinal Directions!
Perhaps you are on Windows and would like the Hugor interpreter and all the games packaged together? Download this.
If you’d like to make your own games in Hugo, there is a forum on Jolt Country where Hugonauts will be happy to answer questions and provide help. There is also a wiki called Hugo by Example that has lots of examples of Hugo code.
If you enjoyed these Hugo games and would like to play more, the Interactive Fiction Database is a great place to look. Click here for all listed Hugo games.
Thanks for playing the games!
I enjoyed playing the games about a week ago. When is the next phase of this comp?
Well, for all intents and purposes, the comp is over. There is no judging period or winners; the point of it was just to give ourselves a goal. You can read our own thoughts on our games in this thread: http://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8023
You can see other people playing the games in a couple ClubFloyd transcripts here:
http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd
Now that we’re done, the consensus is that we’ll take a break, Hugo-community game-rallying-wise, for some months, but I think we’re interested in doing something like this again. I know you have been writing in Inform, but you are welcome to try your hand at Hugo when we do!
Well, for all intents and purposes, the comp is over. There is no judging period or winners; the point of it was just to give ourselves a goal. You can read our own thoughts on our games in this thread: http://www.joltcountry.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8023
You can see other people playing the games in a couple ClubFloyd transcripts here:
http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd
Now that we’re done, the consensus is that we’ll take a break, Hugo-community game-rallying-wise, for some months, but I think we’re interested in doing something like this again. I know you have been writing in Inform, but you are welcome to try your hand at Hugo when we do!