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Monthly Archives: October 2017
IF Comp 2017: Eat Me
ME (regarding game list): I… guess I’d better play the vore game. CHORUS: Lord-a-mercy but that vore game is A Lot. ME: Yes. Yes it most certainly is. Eat Me (Chandler Groover) is a limited-parser Inform game. The main verb of … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: The Wizard Sniffer
The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson) is an Inform game in which you play a pig guiding a heroic-fantasy Hero. It seems like precisely the kind of game that tends to perform well in the Comp environment: it’s a cheerful and mildly subversive … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: 10pm
10pm (litrouke) is a Twine piece depicting a single conversation. The protagonist, Bird, is a twelve-year-old boy who only speaks in pictograms (which might represent sign language, though I don’t think this is ever made explicit). His guardian, Ty, understands them … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: 1958: Dancing With Fear
1958: Dancing With Fear (Victor Ojuel) is an Inform game about Cold War intrigue in an unnamed Spanish-speaking Caribbean nation. The protagonist is Salomé Vélez, a one-time star performer, now a little past her prime but still able to turn heads. … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: a partial list of things for which I am grateful
a partial list of things for which I am grateful (Devon Guinn) is an extremely short Twine piece. Any review of it will inevitably take up more words than are in the actual piece. Its main use of hypertext is … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: The Traveller
The Traveller (Kaelan Doyle Myerscough) is an visual novel about space exploration, alien contact and loneliness. The story is highly Odyssey-influenced, to the point where it might be readable as a very loose retelling: the protagonist is a lost wanderer trying to find … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: Hexteria Skaxis Qiameth
Hexteria Skaxis Qiameth (Gabriel Floriano) is a short Twine piece about language. It’s extremely Borgesian, so much so that it’s really best thought of as Borges fanfic. It’s quite good Borges fanfic, with a good ear for the basic tone, and … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: Salt
Salt (Gareth Damian Martin) is a (heavily-customised) Twine piece about swimming. It’s focused on immediate experience, physical and mental. It has a very vaguely-defined protagonist, because it’s about an activity that takes you out of yourself. The protagonist starts on the … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: My night
My night (Ivsaez) is a horror game about Spanish teenagers. Five kids are having a party in a family home, and mess around with a ouija board; then the lights go out, the protagonist starts walking around the darkened house alone in … Continue reading
IF Comp 2017: Guttersnipe
Guttersnipe: St. Hesper’s Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous (Bitter Karella) is a Quest game where you play a 1920s child who, along with her educated rat, has to escape an institution and thus win the title of most dreadful urchin. The … Continue reading
These Heterogenous Tasks 