Current News



18 December 2002
New review for Thomas Mulkerrins' best game Troll and a walkthru for the Mad Monk's strange A Masochist's Heaven.

17 December 2002
New walkthru for Ketigid's strange Drifting In...

7 December 2002
Added a walkthru for Hanadorobou's excellent The PK Girl and a review for Molesquesh's (where do people find these usernames?) Report Espionage. Also put up a "Favourite Games" section.

25 November 2002
Walkthru added for Jon Buder's strange Invert's Road Trip.

21 November 2002
New review for Fezzik's A Day At The Iachini House.

20 November 2002
Added a Links Section (finally!)

16 November 2002
With the judging for the IFComp 2002 finished reviews for Hanadorobou's excellent The PK Girl, Toddwat's Unraveling God and DuoDave's A Party To Murder added. Also did a walkthru for Kit's The Average Life.

13 November 2002
Uploaded a slightly amended version of ONNAFA and a new version of The Door To Utopia (minus several typos and errors).

11 November 2002
3 new reviews added: The Amazing Poodle Boy's Goldilocks Is a Fox, DuoDave's Invasion Of The Second-Hand Shirts and Mystery's Professor Von Witt's Fabulous Flying Machine.

9 November 2002
ONNAFA uploaded to the Games section.

7 November 2002
Review added for Graham Cluley's Jacaranda Jim.

ONNAFA now completed and just waiting for Woodfish to bring the newsletter out (which contains a preview of said game) before uploading it.Also add

ed a few new previews to the Previews section - including the FOM's first adventure!

2 November 2002
Added a table to most of the pages to make navigation around the site easier.

New review - for The Mad Monk's Far From Home - added.

1 November 2002
Added a walkthru for my game Lair Of The Vampire.

29 October 2002
Walkthru for J. J. Sonick's The Screen Savers On Planet X added.

Progress on ONNAFA - KB: 147, Rooms: 67, Objects: 275, Tasks: 656, Events: 5, Characters: 36.

26 October 2002
Added walkthrus for three of the one hour games: my game The Princess In The Tower, Mel S' The Evil Chicken Of Doom and Woodfish's The Game To End All Games.

24 October 2002
Wrote a review of Rainbowscape's Alias: Undercover Agent and added a walkthru for the same.

23 October 2002
Finally got around to uploading the walkthru for my game Whatever Happened To Uncle Grumble.

21 October 2002
My second entry for ADRIFT's "write a game in one hour" idea is finished. The Princess In The Tower is available from the Games page.

20 October 2002
ADRIFT's "write a game in one hour" idea went into overdrive. My contribution - The Haunted House Of Hideous Horror - is available from the Games page and the solution (assuming there's anyone in the world who hasn't finished it) is on the Walkthrus page.

18 October 2002
New review in the form of Thomas Mulkerrins' The Lost Tomb.

17 October 2002
Completed my short game The Door To Utopia which can be found in the Games section. And there's a walkthru for it (already!) in the Walkthrus section.

Also added a short demo to the new Miscellaneous page - a very basic combat system.

14 October 2002
Added a walkthru for Mel S' Urban Dragon.

Progress on ONNAFA - KB: 124, Rooms: 67, Objects: 198, Tasks: 515, Events: 4, Characters: 33.

13 October 2002
The ADRIFT Forum finally has a reviews section! Added a review there for J. J. Sonick's The Screen Savers on Planet X and the same here two minutes later.

Split the Games section from the Previews.

11 October 2002
Finally got round to adding the walkthru for my own game YADFA.

10 October 2002
This time the walkthru for Mel S' Sleaze City added.

7 October 2002
Progress on ONNAFA - KB: 93, Rooms: 55, Objects: 164, Tasks: 404, Events: 2, Characters: 25.

5 October 2002
Walkthru for Mel S' The Wasp Connection added.

1 October 2002
Added review for Eric Mayer's Doomed Xycanthus.

29 September 2002
Walkthru for Kit's When The Lights Go Out added.

Current progress on ONNAFA - KB: 64, Rooms: 48, Objects: 125, Tasks: 281, Events: 1, Characters: 16.

26 September 2002
Walkthru for Mel S' Crime Scene added.

25 September 2002
Following the review, now the walkthru for Mystery's Selma's Will added.

24 September 2002
Review for Mystery's Selma's Will added.

22 September 2002
Put up the walkthru for Sarazar's Lab Experiment and thanks to Cannibal for the walkthru for his excellent The Woods Are Dark - surely the only game written for ADRIFT in which you use a severed head to defeat a killer!

Current progress on ONNAFA - KB: 43, Rooms: 48, Objects: 81, Tasks: 194, Events: 1, Characters: 12.

21 September 2002
Walkthru for The Mad Monk's very strange Heroes Are Interesting Things To Be. No prizes for guessing why he chose the name The Mad Monk!

20 September 2002
Walkthru for Markus Kolic's Akron added.

19 September 2002
Walkthrus added for both of Eric Mayer's games Lost and Doomed Xycanthus.

17 September 2002
Wrote a review of The Wheels Must Turn by Heal Butcher, certainly one of the strangest adventures ever written.

Current progress on ONNAFA - KB: 28, Rooms: 34, Objects: 49, Tasks: 103, Events: 0, Characters: 8.

16 September 2002
Added walkthrus for DuoDave's "deliberately bad" Invasion of the Second-Hand Shirts and Heal Butcher's rather strange Silk Noil. Anyone have a clue what it's about?

15 September 2002
The walkthru for my own game Scene of the Crime added as well as (courtesy of the author himself) Jason Guest's Goldilocks is a Fox.

14 September 2002
Walkthrus galore added: Sam McCall's House of the Damned, Mel S' The Lost Mines, Office Breakout and (courtesy of Mel himself) Murder in Great Falls and a strange little game called Mud Monster by Joe34.

11 September 2002
Review for Sarazar's Wonder Wombat added.

8 September 2002
Added walkthru for Sarazar's Bomb Threat and Heal Butcher's weird but wonderful The Wheels Must Turn

7 September 2002
Added walkthru for T. Mulkerrins' Troll!

5 September 2002
Walkthrus section now open. First walkthru: The Mad Monk's Far From Home.

4 September 2002
Uploaded review of Panic by MileOut.

Started work on ONNAFA (Oh No Not Another Fantasy Adventure), a sequal to YADFA. Estimated time to completion: a long time.

29 August 2002
Uploaded review of The Woods Are Dark by Cannibal. Added a 'Logic' rating to the reviews.
28 August 2002
Was pleased to note Lair of the Vampire had received a rating of 80%! Alas, no review.

Decided to end "The Smacking Thread". A pale shadow of its (once funny) former self.
27 August 2002
Finally - finally!!! - finished Lair of the Vampire. Available to download in the ADRIFT Games section.

26 August 2002
Uploaded a few more game previews.

Was voted by Mut as the person most likely to brag about starting The Smacking Thread. Brought a warm glow to my heart to hear such praise.

Lair of the Vampire 99% completed.

21 August 2002
The Shadow Vault officially uploaded. Response seemed quite positive aside from (naturally) the guy with the hair. Maybe I should shoot the whole thing through with bright streaks of orange and see if he prefers that.

Uploaded review of Menagerie by DuoDave.

20 August 2002
Lair of the Vampire approaching completion (finally!)

19 August 2002
Started work on the FOM's Diary. Converted reviews of The Lost Mines and Storm Tossed from Word to HTML.

17 August 2002
Much uploading of files and getting very frustrated at how slowly things are going but progress made at last.

16 August 2002
Started work on The Shadow Vault.