A very short game, with the main challenge of making the parser understand what you actually mean. The bad quality of this work might be deliberate; however, even if it was, this fact wouldn't add anything to the game's charm (or its rating, for that matter).

Rating: *

Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (28 Dec 2005)

ninja.bas (10.90 KB)

BASIC source code (version: 1.30)

ninja.exe (45.95 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 1.30)

ninja.txt (945 bytes)

documentation

ninja.zip (32.51 KB)

BASIC source code (version: 1.32), MS-DOS executable

A work that can call itself an anti-game pleno jure. As such, it's OK; unfortunately, the genre has already been explored thoroughly enough as long ago as 1995 by Neil deMause in his Undo.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (28 Dec 2005)

ptbad.taf (3.27 KB)

Adrift 4.00 executable

ptbad.walkthru (2 bytes)

solution

Ideologically, this is a remake of Rape, Pillage, Galore, an entry in the IF-Competition 2003, yet the original has been stripped to the bare essential. This, combined with the fact it's a repeated joke, makes it no fun at all.

Rating: Not rated

Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (28 Dec 2005)

FutureGame.z5 (10.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable

This is essentially the same Ninja game entered a year before, which the author expanded by exactly one puzzle (however, it didn't improve things in any way). It's arguable whether it was a legal entry for the IF-Competition, since its rules admit newly released games only; however, considering the ranks both Ninja and Ninja II earned in the Comp, this argument is mostly of purely theoretical interest.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (28 Dec 2005)

ninja2.exe (47.45 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 1.0a)

NINJA2.TXT (971 bytes)

documentation