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Don't Be Late

Author:Greg Ewing
Genre:Slice of life
Released:1996
Review:

A very small game in which you have to reach a friend's house in order to start judging the entries in the Second Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (in which it is itself an entry). Takes at most 15 minutes to play in its entirety. Rather weak parser - "look at", "get", and "him" are not understood, for example. All in all, not a sufficient reason in itself to download the ALAN runtime. Has a cute reentrant ending, though.

Rating: **

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
22nd place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 1996
Related Links:SPAG review
Downloads:
1req.txt (511 bytes)
author's blurb
dbl.acd (21.00 KB)
Alan 2.5 executable (also need dbl.dat; requires an old Alan 2.5 or 2.6 interpreter)
dbl.dat (10.00 KB)
Alan executable (also need dbl.acd)
walkthru.txt (9.17 KB)
solution
old (4.00 KB)
Directory containing old versions of Alan interpreter software


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