Pardon me for crashing the AGS forums -- I am not an AGS developer but I would like to invite all AGS developers to participate in a game development event, open not only to AGS, but also to text adventure creators, and other graphics based developers as well, in any language.
It is the 70th anniversary of HP Lovecraft's death, and to mark the occasion, the Museum of Science Fiction and Utopias in Switzerland is holding an exhibition of writing and art inspired by HP Lovecraft's Commonplace Book -- his "idea book" for stories that, in the event, he never got to tell. Now we're adding an interactive gaming component to the exhibit, at the venue and as an online extension. Also, I'm looking at other Lovecraft events that we may participate in as well as a revolving gallery. Finally, I hope to press a limited edition CDROM catalog of the entries. For all the details, please look over here:
http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if/lovecraft.html
And if you intend to enter, send an email to me at lovecraft[at]illuminatedlantern.com.
This is an exciting project that combines arists, writers, and game developers to one common purpose. Also, it has the potential to combine game developers of both text only and graphics varieties, which doesn't happen too often...I'm on the text side of the fence myself, so this forum is pretty unfamiliar territory to me.
Here is the original announcement, and responses, over at rec.arts.int-fiction:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/d49794384c593cd4/a3261cc9681d3ca5#a3261cc9681d3ca5
Competition-wise, I hope to have a vote for "Best in Show" for each category of games, but nothing to aggressive -- the emphasis I would like to place on this event is on participation, not competition.
Best regards,
-- Peter Nepstad
http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/if
Google up the "Unspeakable Vault (of doom)" webcomic.
I like this idea a lot. The timeframe may be against me, though. We'll see. :)