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You Were Doomed From the Start

Author:Jeremy Carey-Dressler
Genre:Fantasy>Cave crawl
Released:2001
Review:

Only the creator of this trivial programming exercise could explain why he thought it was worth releasing to the public, let alone entering in a competition. It's a small collection of awkwardly-described rooms (the author is highly enamored of periods of ellipsis) in which anything remotely resembling a puzzle is solved automatically, leaving the player with nothing to do but enter the one command - the same command in every room - that toggles the room's one bit of alterable state.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (19 Feb 2002)

Competitions/
Awards:
51st place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 2001
Downloads:
Doomed.cpp (42.41 KB)
C source code (version: 1.0)
DOOMED.EXE (48.77 KB)
MS-DOS executable (version: 1.0)
Pause.H (136 bytes)
C source code (version: 1.0)
Pause1.h (132 bytes)
C source code (version: 1.0)
Read_ME.txt (4.33 KB)
documentation


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