This page is dedicated to my text adventure games, which are more commonly known these days as interactive fiction; partly because it sounds more highbrow and partly because many modern works of this sort are neither adventures nor strictly speaking, games. Mine are, so I use the term with equanimity.

To play these games you will need either the HTML TADS Player's Kit (HyperTADS on the Mac) or the ADRIFT Runner (SCARE if you are using a Mac or Linux). To Hell in a Hamper and Escape from the Crazy Place can also be played online thanks to a nifty little Java applet called Jetty. Also available to play online is the HTML version of Escape from the Crazy Place. Click on the title to read more about each game.
 

Staggering back from yet another wild student party, blonde bombshell Goldilocks decides to take a shortcut through the enchanted forest. All she really wants is a nice hot bowl of porridge and somewhere to sleep off her hangover - but something tells her that quaint little cottage isn't as innocent as it seems...

Finalist, Best Individual PC, Xyzzy Awards 2002
1st place, ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2002
2nd place, ADRIFT Spring Comp 2002

Click here or on the logo to download, or read more about this game.
 

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling companion Hubert Booby will be burned to a cinder by an erupting volcano! But what is Mr. Booby concealing under his overcoat? Do all Ecuadorian peasants have BSc's? And what, in the name of all that's holy, is THE CURSE OF THE BLUE IBIS?

Finalist, Best Game, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Writing, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Story, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Setting, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Use of Medium, Xyzzy Awards 2003
1st place, ADRIFT Spring Comp 2003
1st place, ADRIFT End of Year Comp 2003

Click here or on the logo to download, play online, or read more about this game.
Escape from the Crazy Place
 

You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places including custard-filled caverns, the world's worst Indian restaurant, the planet Venus, and the inside of a cereal packet. You'll meet such strange characters as the peculiar Plugalug, Rampateuay (a prophet who predicts the present) and the sinister Boss. Can YOU escape from the Crazy Place?

Escape from the Crazy Place is a sprawling Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type game, like the Fighting Fantasy series only considerably sillier. Written over 23 years with contributions from more than 30 authors and artists, it is now available in a new TADS 2 version that includes 70 illustrations and over 100 new pages!

"Like the twisted literary lovechild of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Homsar, Escape From the Crazy Place is quite possibly one of the funniest things I've ever touched!" Ryusui - rec.arts.int.fiction.

"I've been playing your online Escape from the Crazy Place for the last half hour and I have to say it's... well, the best damn thing I've ever seen ever." Sprite - The Adrift Forum.

Click here or on the logo to play the original HTML version online.

Click here to play the TADS 2 version online using the Java applet Jetty. Note that playing with online with Jetty you will not be able to see the pictures!

Click here to download the TADS 2 version. You'll need the HTML TADS Player's Kit to play this version, but you will be able to see the illustrations!

  You had been working on a new form of teleport in your laboratory in London for nearly a year when you decided it was ready for its final test.

After setting the co-ordinates for the other side of the room, you stepped in front of the beam of white light and disappeared.

A few seconds later you materialized, expecting to see the grey walls of your lab, but instead you found yourself in a dense jungle on the small planet of Iloofrax...

Click here or on the logo to read more about this game.