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The Water Bird

Author:Athan Skelley
Released:1999
Review:

You're a Native American boy charged with saving your village from a monster. Well-researched and nicely done setting, but buggy--the competition release had a bug that made it unfinishable, and while the latest release cleaned up that particular bug, it has lots of others, including one that, again, makes the game unfinishable. It would be nice to see this cleaned up, since it's a setting that's never been done before in IF. As it is, however, it's too buggy to be worth trying.

Rating: **

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (09 Jul 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
29th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 1999
Downloads:
waterbrd.gam (272.73 KB)
TADS executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry)
waterbrd.gam (274.25 KB)
TADS executable (version: Release 1.1)
Waterbird.wlk (4.99 KB)
solution


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