Another review of the games from Spring Thing 2007: this time I’m looking at David Whyld’s “The Reluctant Resurrectee”. Mild spoilers follow, which you may wish to avoid if you plan to play the game.
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Herein I continue with comments on Spring Thing games. If you wish to hold yourself unspoiled, do not read. This time around, it’s Victor Gijsbers’ “Fate”.
I have been wishing for some new IF to play, and conveniently, Spring Thing games are out. Judges are permitted to comment on games during the competition as long as such comments are clearly marked — so consider yourself warned. Some comments follow, on the Epic Origins of CamelGirl!.
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My review of Colin Borland’s “A Sugared Pill” is now up at IF-Review.
Letters from Home (Roger Firth, 2000): a game I didn’t get very far into during its competition release some years ago. I replayed it this evening. It belongs to a small collection of verbal-puzzle interactive fiction where the words used to describe things are more important than the things themselves, along with Infocom’s “Nord and Bert”, Ad Verbum, Puddles on the Path, and Goose, Egg, Badger.
Just added a review of Raph Koster’s A Theory of Fun For Game Design to the site, plus some related thoughts about flOw, Super Columbine Massacre, etc., which will no doubt all seem much less topical in a couple of months. Still, there it is.
(Edited to add: Koster’s blog contains a recent thread of discussion about games and art, including links to some other reviews that are a little less IF-centric.)
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