Category: Reviews

IF Competition Bonus Round: The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom

Another IF Comp review, following my format for this comp. Yeah, I know, I thought I was done too — but then I discovered (apropos of playing Eliuk Blau’s Damusix demo) that my copy of Spatterlight wasn’t as up to date as I thought it was. So I thought, why not have another stab at playing the Alan game, since maybe the problem there was that I didn’t have the latest Spatterlight with the latest Alan insert?

And what do you know: it worked.

(Incidentally, one of the things I really love about Zoom is its ability to check on its own for new interpreter modules, and download them when updates are needed. That is a sweet feature. Too bad Zoom doesn’t cover Alan, or play sounds.)

More after the break, which is to say

shortly.

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IF Competition: General Reflections and Favorites

Being an overview of my favorites and general impressions, now that I’ve played all the games I intend to play this year. (That includes all the TADS, Inform, and ADRIFT games. I tried to fire up the Alan game, but it refused to run under Spatterlight, and Zoom doesn’t do Alan at all. Edited to add: I did eventually get Alan to work — my copy of Spatterlight was older than I thought, so I needed to download the latest.)

There are no spoilers, except inasmuch as knowing which games I liked is itself a spoiler for the comp as a whole.

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IF Competition: Snack Time

Another IF Comp review, following my format for this comp. There is a cut, then any spoiler-free comments I have, and then spoiler space, and then more detailed feedback that assumes the reader has tried the game.

But first, we have some obligatory filler to try to make sure that the RSS summary does not accidentally contain any review. Filler, filler, la la la…

Okay. Here we go.

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IF Competition: A Martian Odyssey

Another IF Comp review, following my format for this comp. There is a cut, then any spoiler-free comments I have, and then spoiler space, and then more detailed feedback that assumes the reader has tried the game.

But first, we have some obligatory filler to try to make sure that the RSS summary does not accidentally contain any review. Filler, filler, la la la…

Okay. Here we go.

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IF Competition: Channel Surfing

Another IF Comp review, following my format for this comp. There is a cut, then any spoiler-free comments I have, and then spoiler space, and then more detailed feedback that assumes the reader has tried the game.

But first, we have some obligatory filler to try to make sure that the RSS summary does not accidentally contain any review. Filler, filler, la la la…

Okay. Here we go.

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IF Competition: A Date With Death

Another IF Comp review, following my format for this comp. There is a cut, then any spoiler-free comments I have, and then spoiler space, and then more detailed feedback that assumes the reader has tried the game.

But first, we have some obligatory filler to try to make sure that the RSS summary does not accidentally contain any review. Filler, filler, la la la…

Okay. Here we go.

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