adrift

Dictionary: a·drift (ə-drĭft') pronunciation

adv. & adj.

Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.
Without direction or purpose: "The report is about people in their twenties and how alienated and adrift they feel" (Tom Shales).

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Antonyms: adrift

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adv

Definition: floating out of control
Antonyms: anchored, stable, tied down

adv

Definition: off course
Antonyms: on course, on target

adv

Definition: without purpose
Antonyms: determined, purposeful

Marine Corps Dictionary: Adrift

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Floating aimlessly, usually without a rudder or compass. Missing in action. Setting ones self off from the norm.

Wikipedia: ADRIFT

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ADRIFT

Original author(s)	Campbell Wild
Developer(s)	Campbell Wild
Stable release	4.0 release 51 / April 20, 2008
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English
Type	interactive fiction development and play
License	Shareware
Website	http://www.adrift.org.uk/

For other uses, see Adrift.

ADRIFT ^[1] is a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures. The name is an acronym for "Adventure Development & Runner - Interactive Fiction Toolkit". The project is solely developed by Campbell Wild.

The toolkit consists of two programs; a generator (used to write games), and a runner (used to play them), though the runner is available to download separately. Currently, both programs only run on Microsoft Windows platforms as they are written in Visual Basic. Since the release of version 4, in 2002, the generator is shareware (adventures over a certain size cannot be saved until a registration fee of 12 GBP is paid), though the runner is available free to everyone. Older (freeware) versions of the program can also be downloaded on the website.

The next major version, version 5, will be written in Visual Basic.net.

Unlike many text adventure creation tools (such as TADS), the author needs little knowledge of how to program to use the ADRIFT generator. Instead, the author is presented with a simple graphical interface with which to write their game. This allows for text adventures to be written more quickly by people who are primarily authors rather than programmers.^[2]

jAsea is an open-source Java application that runs Adrift games. It allows anyone with a Java-enabled web browser regardless of platform to play ADRIFT games. Development of jAsea was discontinued in 2004. SCARE is an ANSI/ISO C secondary clone of jAsea and the project has resulted in the ability to play ADRIFT games on several platforms including Linux, Windows, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga.

Two of the most critically acclaimed ADRIFT games to date are The PK Girl, which achieved 6th place in the Interactive Fiction Competition in 2002,^[3] and A Fine Day for Reaping, which took 7th place in the Interactive Fiction Competition^[4] and won the XYZZY Award for Best Story in 2007.^[5]

External links

ADRIFT Website
ADRIFT Forum
jAsea homepage
SCARE Project homepage (Archived 2009-10-24)
Cloak of Darkness: ADRIFT presents a short game implemented in ADRIFT, as well as other languages for comparison.

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Translations: Adrift

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - drivende, i drift
adv. - drivende, i drift

idioms:

go adrift drive afsted

Nederlands (Dutch)
stuurloos, zwervend

Français (French)
adj. - (Naut) à la dérive, (fig) à l'abandon
adv. - (Naut) à la dérive, (fig) à l'abandon

idioms:

go adrift (Naut) aller à la dérive

Deutsch (German)
adj. - steuerlos, verloren
adv. - umhertreibend, (übertr.) hilflos, verloren

idioms:

go adrift abtreiben

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σε παρέκκλιση, εκτός πορείας, ανερμάτιστος, ξεστρατισμένος, μισοχαμένος, πελαγωμένος

idioms:

go adrift παρεκκλίνω πορείας, πελαγώνω

Italiano (Italian)
alla deriva

idioms:

go adrift andare alla deriva

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - desgovernado, desorientado, sem rumo

idioms:

go adrift andar sem rumo

Русский (Russian)
по течению, на произвол судьбы

idioms:

go adrift дрейфовать

Español (Spanish)
adj. - descontrolado
adv. - fuera de control, sin gobierno

idioms:

go adrift ir a la deriva

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - på drift, på glid

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
漂浮着的, 漂流着的, 漫无目的的, 漂泊的, 漂浮着, 漂流着, 漫无目的地, 随波逐流地

idioms:

go adrift 随波逐流, 脱节

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 漂浮著的, 漂流著的, 漫無目的的, 漂泊的
adv. - 漂浮著, 漂流著, 漫無目的地, 隨波逐流地

idioms:

go adrift 隨波逐流, 脫節

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 계류되어 있지 않은
adv. - 표류하여, 닻줄이 풀리어 , 실직하여

idioms:

go adrift 표류하다, 탈선하다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 漂って, あてもなく
adv. - 流されて, 途方に暮れて

idioms:

go adrift 無くなる, 盗まれる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) طاف من غير مرساه, على غير هدى, من غير هدف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נסחף הנה והנה, נתון לחסדי הגורל, תלוש, לא-מהודק, נעדר ללא רשות, אינו מגיע ליעד, מקולקל, חסר ידע ב-‬
adv. - ‮לא-מהודק, נתון לחסדי הנסיבות‬

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