SUDS is a freeware Windows-only Interactive Fiction (IF) authoring application. It provides a strong IDE which offers advanced drag-and-drop programming instead of text-based coding. It supports a growing and enthusiastic following of game authors (rather than coders) who use the graphical system to generate their own text adventures. SUDS was launched a couple of years ago and has been gaining in popularity ever since in the tightly-contested field of IF tools. It has been especially well received in the education sector. To date, SUDS has been developed by myself as a spare-time activity. It is a fairly mature product and functionally complete. However, the user community have a number of good ideas for how to further improve the product. I find myself unable to juggle family and career commitments with the leisure-time development work required to keep SUDS moving. Therefore I am regretfully stepping down from my involvement with the product. However, as I do not wish the program to be abandoned, I am looking for a responsible Delphi developer or group of developers who can take over looking after SUDS (free of charge). SUDS has been developed in Delphi and uses several proprietary components, most notably the DBISAM database format. Prospective owners need the following : Delphi 5 or later OO programming experience Help system authoring experience (currently uses WinHelp format) Familiarity with SQL and database manipulation Web-site authoring Some cash outlay (SOLELY to purchase vendor licences for the various proprietary components that SUDS uses) Willingness and ability to commit effort to the product and user community Possible future directions include : Converting text passages into HTML, to be able to show graphics and formatted text (a relatively straightforward task) Adding the ability to import/export individual SUDS elements between users Adding a text-input parser Porting to other platforms (via Java or Kylix) See http://www.sudslore.com for more details.