It’s been a few years since Ben Collins-Sussman and I put out a text adventure game, but we were inspired this summer by the painful rollout of Pokémon Go! to write a new one for entry in this year’s Interactive Fiction Competition (ifcomp.org). This year’s competition brought in 57 works of interactive fiction, all of which can be played for free online (or downloaded). I’d encourage folks to try a few of the games including Pogoman GO! If you are willing to rate at least five of them, you can participate in online voting, which is open through mid-November.
We hadn’t originally meant to target the competition, but timing more or less worked out that way, and it seemed like a good way to get lots of eyes on the game, while it was still relevant. The game is in a part a parody of the mobile game, but a good portion of it goes in a different, and it has been said, more surreal, direction. More about the game over on its own website.