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Games with files timestamped Jan 2004
Z-Chess
Mystic Castle
Shinan's Road
Westfront 64
Mark... of the Vampire!
Enchanter: West Front to Apse
Drakon River
Adventure RD
Westfront II: Eight Trials of a Warrior
Starrider
| Author: | Maximilian Kalus | | Genre: | Science Fiction | | Released: | 1999 | | Review: | To play this game, you should have a working knowledge of German. Here is a brief synopsis in English: You are travelling as a stowaway in a spaceship, hoping to reach Chalybes. But as the temperature drops, you risk to leave your container, only to find the whole crew murdered...
Im Jahre 2428 versteckst du dich als blinder Passagier in einem Frachtcontainer eines Raumschiffes, um nach Chalybes zu fliehen. Als die Temperatur immer weiter sinkt und seltsame Geräusche aus dem Schiff zu hören sind, wagst du dich aus deinem Versteck und findest zu deinem Entsetzen Besatzung und Passagiere tot auf. Doch es kommt noch schlimmer... Die unheimliche Stimmung, sehr dichte Texte, diverse clever ausgedachte High-Tech-Rätsel und ein wirklich teuflischer NPC machen Star Rider zu einem der besten deutschsprachigen Textabenteuer überhaupt. Da es im Spiel integrierte Tipps gibt, ist das Spiel trotz gehobenem Schwierigkeitsgrad auch für Einsteiger zu schaffen.
Rating: ****
Reviewed by Matthias Oborski (03 Jan 2003)
| | Related Links: | Chalybes: The roleplaying universe in which Starrider takes place
Review by Florian Edlbauer
Play it online: Version: 9
| | Downloads: | - 2004-01-10 starrider.z5 (217.00 KB)
- Z-code 5 executable in German (version: 9)
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Ugly Chapter
The President, The Democrats, and Smelly Pete
Being the Little Guy
The Body
What Dreams May Come
Reality Show
Pirates and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My!
Beyond The Blue Event Wall
The Tower of Beef
Vacationing in Scotland
The Tenyaka Memorial of Vegreville
Wormwood Days II: The Aftermath
Cheating Death
Reality Railroad
Death's Scavenger Hunt
Llangollen Rock City
21 Points
Sell-Out
Oh Miranda!
Great Zimbabwe
Badland Machine
SpeedIF of Destiny or Nothing, Punk
Three Doors
Three Doors
Schrödinger's Door
A Brain in the Rain
Evil Brain Five
It Could Only Happen To You
Casino Viridoso V
Cough Cough
No Room
| Author: | Ben Heaton | | Released: | 2003 | | Review: | The main idea behind this work was creating a game without even a single room definition. I've never coded in Inform, but from my TADS experience I can tell it must have been quite a feat. For players less versed in programming it's probably not as interesting; still, the only puzzle in the game (of the "find a light source" type) is worth the approx. 10 minutes it takes to solve it.
Rating: ****
Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (10 Jun 2004)
| Competitions/
Awards: | 22nd place, 2003
| | Downloads: | - 2003-09-27 noroom.z5 (59.00 KB)
- Z-code 5 executable (version: 1, competition release)
- 2004-01-17 noroom.inf (21.55 KB)
- Inform source code (version: 2)
- 2004-01-17 noroom.z5 (60.50 KB)
- Z-code 5 executable (version: 2)
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Guss's Death
| Author: | Kyle Frownfelter | | Released: | 2004 | | Review: | The only thing I can think is that this is something the author wrote for
practice and decided to upload to the archive for unknown reasons. There are
four rooms with mostly one-line descriptions, the few objects mentioned are
undescribed, and the game can be completed in six moves. For the tiny bit of
text it contains there's also an inordinate amount of spelling and
grammatical errors, including the first word of the introduction. Really,
the only good thing that can be said about it is that if you decide to play,
you at least won't waste more than sixty seconds of your life. Pass.
Rating: *
Reviewed by Jacqueline H. (05 Jan 2005)
| | Downloads: | - 2004-01-31 gussdeath.z3 (40.50 KB)
- Z-code 3 executable (version: 1)
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Legacy of a Princess
Selma's Will
Kingdom Without End
A Dark and Stormy Entry
Flotsam
Escape from a Planet Filled with Monkeys!
One Week
| Author: | Papillon | | Genre: | Slice of life | | Released: | 2001 | | License: | Shareware | | Review: | Uses the CYOA interface to produce a remarkably cohesive and entertaining game about juggling the demands and problems of a high school senior. (Unlike some CYOA, this one returns to the same decision points instead of branching out wildly -- but what you've done already affects what options you have at future decisions. You can only spend money you've earned, for instance, and if you've spent the week goofing off instead of working, well, you're out of luck.)
Your choices over the course of the week described in the game create a profile of your character -- morally, socially, and academically -- leading to one of a very large number of endings. There are no puzzles, except inasmuch as the player may want to try for specific outcomes. Fun.
Rating: Not rated
Reviewed by Emily Short (02 Jun 2003)
| Competitions/
Awards: | Entered in LoTech Comp
| | Related Links: | IF-Review
| | Downloads: | - 2004-01-26 lotech.zip (481.26 KB)
- TADS executable (LoTech Comp version)
- 2002-03-15 oneweek.zip (486.33 KB)
- Windows executable
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The Knapsack Problem
Spacestation (Planetfall sample transcript)
| Author: | David Ledgard | | Genres: | Adaptation
Science Fiction | | Released: | 1998 | | Review: | An implementation of the sample transcript included in Planetfall,
with some modifications. Not exactly up to the quality of
Balances; very little is implemented beyond the minimum necessary to reproduce the
transcript. The author indicates that it is a work in progress.
Rating: ***
Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)
| | Review: | The second release of this one is fleshed out quite a bit more than the first one, so it's not just the Infocom sample transcript anymore. The additional content isn't especially revolutionary--standard sci-fi puzzles--but it's not bad either, and the implementation is reasonably solid. The ideas are still mostly Steve Meretzky's, but that's not a bad thing, and it works okay as an homage of sorts.
Rating: ***
Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (17 Jul 2000)
| Competitions/
Awards: | 19th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 1998
| | Play Online: | Play it at ifiction.org: Release 1, original competition entry
Play it at ifiction.org: Release 2
| | Downloads: | - 1998-10-03 space_st.txt (2.83 KB)
- author's notes
- 1998-09-25 space_st.wlk (9.26 KB)
- walkthrough for competition release
- 1998-09-27 space_st.z5 (71.00 KB)
- Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry)
- 1999-06-21 spacest2.zip (95.20 KB)
- Inform source code (version: Release 2)
- 2004-01-30 spacest2.z5 (134.00 KB)
- Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 2)
- 1999-06-02 spacest2.sol (1.09 KB)
- solution
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The Maintenance Man
Vacation Gone Awry
Orathan
The Gate
| Author: | Owen Parish | | Genres: | Fantasy
Surreal | | Released: | 2004 | | Review: | Mostly conversation with an NPC in a dreamlike environment. There are multiple possible outcomes; what is frustrating is that it is never quite clear what any of these outcomes means, or why you are making this choice in the first place. If the conversation had revealed a background that was somewhat less vague, this would be a much more compelling piece.
Rating: ***
Reviewed by Emily Short (25 Jan 2004)
| | Downloads: | - 2004-01-19 gate.gam (66.69 KB)
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Narcolepsy
| Author: | Adam Cadre | | Genres: | Espionage
Science Fiction
Slice of life
Surreal | | Released: | 2003 | Competitions/
Awards: | Finalist, Best Use of Medium, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Individual PC, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Individual NPC, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best NPCs, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Setting, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Finalist, Best Story, Xyzzy Awards 2003
Winner, Best Writing, Xyzzy Awards 2003
| | Related Links: | IF-Review
SPAG review
SPAG review
| | Downloads: | - 2004-01-29 narco.zip (277.30 KB)
- Glulx executable (version: 1.07)
- 2004-01-24 narco.zip (487.63 KB)
- Glulx executable (version: 1.07, bundled with Windows runtime)
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