(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
When Machines Attack lives somewhere beyond good and bad. I’m including some comments on last year’s Press Escape to Save, too. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: When Machines Attack
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
What is Lair of the Cybercow? A gag? Just a really bad game? I have no idea, and that’s the only reason it’s getting its own post. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Lair of the Cybercow
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
Afflicted and Snack Time are good in entirely opposite ways. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Afflicted, Snack Time
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
A Martian Odyssey is based on the short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum. This works about as well as these adaptations usually do, which is to say not really. Continue reading IFComp 2008: A Martian Odyssey
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
Freedom is not about freedom. You probably won’t have the slightest idea what it’s about until you read the ABOUT text. Which is sort of the problem.
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
This is a review of Nerd Quest. In brief: don’t play Nerd Quest. Spoilers, such as they are, past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Nerd Quest
IFComp 2008: Everybody Dies
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
This next review is of Everybody Dies, in which everybody dies. Actual spoilers reside past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Everybody Dies
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
April in Paris is about April. In Paris. You want to know anything else, you can get spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: April in Paris
(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .)
Here we have two games about not being able to write. One of them is good. It isn’t Recess at Last.
There are spoilers this time, so I’m including a “read the rest” link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Recess at Last and Violet