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Review of 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition entry. "Three kow-tows and a bout of swearing."
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Reviews: IF Competition 1998 My scoring system is very simple: I ask myself How much did I enjoy playing this game There is no question of whether a game deserves to win, or whether my scoring is biased. If I enjoyed it, points. If...Rated 5/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "This is probably the most successful example I've seen of interactivity at the service of fiction, rather than vice versa." Links to play online, downloads, walkthrough.
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Photopia Scenes from a handful of ordinary lives alternate with chapters of a child's colorful science-fantasy. Sweet and sad, and complex enough that you may need to go through it twice in order to fully understand how all the fragments fit...Reviews by Paul O'Brian, Duncan Stevens, Brian Blackwell, and David Ledgard.
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SPAG Game Reviews P 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...Author's website. Download Photopia in Z-machine or PC executable format, play it online using Java, or read about the making of the game.
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adamcadre.ac: interactive fiction A fancy name for text adventures, a type of computer game popular in the early 1980s despite having no graphics. Usually involved wandering around in caves solving complicated puzzles, and became completely obsolete around the time Reagan left office, as...