rm by Eskoala
This is a game about being a synthetic life form who is suddenly attacked with An Unconventional Weapon.
It's written in Inform. Source and .gblorb provided. By far the easiest way to play is to use the web interface enabled by iplayif.com's install of Parchment. See "Web". You can do that in an iFrame right here on the page!
If you really want to play another way - http://inform7.com/if/interpreters/ has a massive list.
I'm opting out of Graphics and Sound!
The snapper is not a fish! It is a silly name. Look at the snapper and it will tell you what it is. This is the future, stupid names are in fashion.
Useful commands include "look", "get", "n" "s" "e" "w" for compass directions, "go through", "say", "z" for wait a turn, and for other things read the descriptions of the objects for a clue.
It's written in Inform. Source and .gblorb provided. By far the easiest way to play is to use the web interface enabled by iplayif.com's install of Parchment. See "Web". You can do that in an iFrame right here on the page!
If you really want to play another way - http://inform7.com/if/interpreters/ has a massive list.
I'm opting out of Graphics and Sound!
The snapper is not a fish! It is a silly name. Look at the snapper and it will tell you what it is. This is the future, stupid names are in fashion.
Useful commands include "look", "get", "n" "s" "e" "w" for compass directions, "go through", "say", "z" for wait a turn, and for other things read the descriptions of the objects for a clue.
Ratings
| Coolness | 50% | 3 |
| Overall | 2.86 | 837 |
| Fun | 2.44 | 969 |
| Humor | 2.43 | 705 |
| Innovation | 2.50 | 931 |
| Mood | 2.80 | 662 |
| Theme | 2.81 | 905 |
The writing is very good. I just wish I could have progressed further.
- The mood is excelent, the writing seems (almost?) profesional. As far as I can tell anyway, since English is not my first language.
- I, too, had the 'guess-the-verb' thing going on, but I've played only very, very few traditional text adventures where that wasn't the case.
[SPOILER: The only way I got the tramp to carry me was by remembering that often, transit in text-adventures is handled 'underwater' as vehicles ... so I fed the command 'enter tramp' into the parser. That worked.]
- It reminds me both of '9:05' (a very short game by Adam Cadre) on one side, but also of some short-form SF I read recently.
- [possible SPOILER:] In one playthrough I had the description of the 'snapper' say that the message from my friend was still present, despite having pressed X.