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IFComp09 Review: Condemned
The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
There are major spoilers in the following review; consider yourself forewarned.
(Game: Condemned | Author: A Delusioned Teenager)
IFComp09 Review: Broken Legs
The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
There are major spoilers in the following review; consider yourself forewarned.
IFComp09 Review: Gleaming the Verb
The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
IFComp09 Review: Beta Tester
The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event that’s been running since 1995 (this is the 15th iteration). Anyone can participate, whether by submitting a game or by voting on the entries. I’m doing the latter.
(I had intended to play all the games in the competition, but after playing a couple, decided to copy Emily Short and ignore those which had no indication that they’d been beta tested. I’d already written the review for this game, so here it is.)
Spaceship! Review
Spaceship! is a group-generated text adventure from the readers of The Grauniad The Guardian’s Games blog. It’s also on the IFDB here.
The premise is pretty straightforward: you (the Captain) are stuck on your (broken) spaceship and must jump through several (puzzle-adorned) hoops to get it working again. Read the rest of this entry »