Category: interactive fiction

IF Competition Discussion: General Observations & Favorites

I’m done playing the games I’m going to play this year (skipping the Windows-only games, Jealousy Duel X which apparently runs on the Macintosh only under Classic, and the Quest game, which Spatterlight refused to cope with), and have submitted my votes.

A list of favorites and thoughts on the competition as a whole follow the cut. There are no specific spoilers for specific games, but people preferring to remain free of influence may want to skip reading until they’re also done playing.

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Further IF Comp reviews in far-off places

Just noticed a Russian IF Forum’s thread on IF Comp, alongside those already noted.

I can’t read Russian, but Babelfishing provides at least a general outline of what the reviewers thought, and gives their criticisms a curiously evocative quality. (One game is criticized for its “indistinct, greased finale”, another because the player found himself “breaking teeth against ferroconcrete pazly”.)