So, Who Is Richard Otter?
I'm Richard Otter
from the UK (or England if you prefer).
My interest in IF dates back to the adventure games of the 80s. I
must have played all the old ZX Spectrum classics such as
"Sherlock", "Hobbit", "Lords of Time", "Snowball" and "Subsunk". I
even had a go at writing my own stuff in those days using the dear
old Quill by Gilsoft.
I stumbled onto ADRIFT in 2004 and so started my life in the modern
world of IF. As I'm no programmer I have stayed with ADRIFT up until
recently and have a few games of varying quality under my belt.
My games have been been placed fairly highly in the regular
ADRIFT competitions. My most successful game so far has been
Unauthorized Termination, which broke into the top ten in the 12th
Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. This game was also a
Finalist in the XYZZY Awards 2006, nominated in the "Best Setting"
category.
Escape to New York was placed 11th in the 11th Annual Interactive
Fiction Competition. It came joint 3rd in InsideADRIFT End of Year
Comp 2005 and was also the joint winner in the "Most unusual ADRIFT
setting/plot of the year" award at the InsideADRIFT Awards 2005.
And just recently Vague was placed 2nd in the Spring Thing 2009.
Out of curiosity really, in 2008 I ported Pathway to Destruction to
Z-Code 8 using Inform 7. This was quite a battle as my programming
skills are a little on the poor side to say the least. It is now
looking like I will be moving over to Inform for new projects, but
have a few ADRIFT games in production.
Check out all My Interactive Fiction
Games to try out my work.
To contact me drop me at e-mail at richardo@delron.org.uk.
Following my blog at richardotter@tumblr.com
Twitter me @richardotter
Competitions
The following are
the placings of games entered in the major
competitions to date.
Vague, Spring Thing 2009: 2nd place
The Puzzle Box, One Room Game Competition 2007: 8th place
Unauthorized Termination, IFComp 2006: 10th place
Escape to New York, IFComp 2005: 11th place
The following are the awards won for my ADRIFT work, to date.
Finalist in the
XYZZY Awards 2006, nominated in the "Best Setting" category
Winner of the "ADRIFT author of the year" at InsideADRIFT Awards 2006.
Joint winner in the "Most unusual ADRIFT setting/plot of the year" award at the InsideADRIFT Awards 2005
Winner of the "ADRIFT author of the year" at InsideADRIFT Awards 2005.
Winner of the "Best contribution by a newcomer to the ADRIFT community" at
InsideADRIFT Awards 2004.
Other Sites
The following websites contain details of my
ADRIFT work -
BAF's Guide
and