Their Angelical Understanding is a choice-based interactive fantasy story, and sometimes interactive poem, about being hurt and about how we respond to that hurt.
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Month: October 2013
IF Comp 2013: Moquette (Alex Warren)
Moquette is a choice-based slice-of-life story about a man fighting some sort of existential crisis. It’s executed in Quest, with a number of image and typographical effects I haven’t seen in that system before. Review after the jump.
IF Comp 2013: Solarium (Alan DeNiro)
Solarium is a choice-based science fiction/fantasy story in Twine about life after a nuclear apocalypse, and the reason that apocalypse happened in the first place. It is fairly substantial for a choice-based story, and took me probably half an hour or more to read.
IF Comp 2013: 100,000 Years (Pierre Chevalier)
100,000 years is a very short, choice-based, web-playable piece. It is completable in a few minutes. Review follows the jump; no spoilers, particularly.
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IF Comp 2013: Blood on the Heather (Tia Orisney)
Blood on the Heather is a choice-based game about vampires in Scotland, by the same author as the comp game Who Among Us.
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IF Comp 2013: Links and other reviews
For those who’d like to read more about the IF Comp now in progress, the main site with all the game downloads and voting information is here.
There are also a bunch of other people writing reviews:
Philip Armstrong
Sam Kabo Ashwell
L’avventura è l’avventura (reviews posted in Italian and English)
Bainespal
Martin Barth (in German)
Wade Clarke
Mr Creosote
Robert DeFord
deubelba
Doug Egan
Victor Gijsbers, “The Gaming Philosopher”
Space Giraffe (comments on Their Angelical Understanding, Dad vs Unicorn, and Machine of Death)
Marco Innocenti
Inurashii
Joey Jones
Krivard (short comments on several games, all on one page)
Leland Paul Kusmer
Lautz of IF
Michael Martin
Mindbling
Carl Muckenhoupt
Adam Myers
Peter Pears
Jenni Polodna, “Pissy Little Sausages”
Chris Priestman
Brooks Reeves
Runnerchild
Russian IF Forum (often brief, and in Russian)
Paul S
The Wabe
Steven Watson
The Xenographer
Various people are also writing reviews in poetry, because why not. (Apparently.)
If I’ve missed your reviews and you’d like them to be listed, feel free to comment as well. Also, ifwiki’s list may have additional things I’ve missed (I’ve updated to match, but it may get away from me again).
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