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Change in the Weather, A

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Author's website with free downloads and Java executable to play online.
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Interactive Fiction  These eight games cover the gamut from serious to silly to zen. Spider And Web, A Change in the Weather, So Far, Shade, and Hunter, in Darkness are the serious ones serious as in serious attempts at literature, I mean....
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html#weather

Rated 4/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "Well-polished prose. Excellent building of tension. Odd and twisty map. Very satisfying." Links to play online, download, and walkthrough.
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A Change in the Weather  A deceptively simple premise: You get stuck out in the rain. This is one difficult little game, made of interlocking time-sensitive parts with ample opportunity to get things irrevocably wrong. Consists of two acts, one before and one during the...
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/235

"What I didn't like was the very short time limit and the way it was incredibly easy to get stuck."
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Criticism: A Change in the Weather  My second favourite of the games in the 1995 interactive fiction competition, after The One that Got Away. This was a fun experiment and a deserved winner of the Inform category. I found it very challenging, but it wasn't outright...
http://www.doggysoft.co.uk/inform/crit/wther.html

Four reviews by Magnus Olsson, Palmer Davis, Gareth Rees, and Duncan Stevens.
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SPAG Game Reviews C  These reviews are in alphabetical order according to the name of the game reviewed. The index also has a few extra features. First and foremost of these is the instant gratification feature. If you see the SPAG button: Then you...
http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/c.html#change