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  • Pardon my dust

    25th Apr 2022 by

    I’m planning to do some work revamping this blog so that I can use it as a general website for the puzzles I’ve been posting on Twitter, as well as for my interactive fiction reviews and other stuff. If the website looks scrappy and half-finished, that’s because it is. At some point, I plan to… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: An Aside About Everything (Sasha)

    8th Nov 2021 by

    Played 6th November using OperaTime played: 1hr 5mins, one full playthrough Some vague and minor spoilers follow. An Aside About Everything is an hour-long Twine game. You control a character referred to in the third person as “He” (with the capital letter), who is searching for a missing girl. In His search, He travels to… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: Infinite Adventure (A. Scotts)

    8th Nov 2021 by

    Played 5th November via DOSBoxTime played: 30mins, 13 playthroughs (it’s a short game) (Full disclosure, I shifted this one forwards in my personal shuffle because of its connection to a game I reviewed earlier in the comp.) Infinite Adventure is a parser game programmed for DOS. It generates a random adventure for the player. In… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: After-Words (fireisnormal)

    31st Oct 2021 by

    Played 29th October using OperaTime played: 50mins, one full playthrough Spoiler-free review, apart from some room, object and NPC names. After-Words is a puzzle parser-like game using a custom system. The story is told vaguely: you are a Resolver in Skycity, and you must solve the city’s problems before you can go home. The vagueness… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: My Gender Is a Fish (Carter Gwertzman)

    31st Oct 2021 by

    Played 27th October using OperaTime played: 15mins, two playthroughs Major spoilers for the whole game. Go play it, it only takes five minutes. My Gender Is a Fish is a very short Twine game in which the player character’s gender is stolen by a magpie. The player character makes a series of choices between two… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: A Paradox Between Worlds (Autumn Chen)

    15th Oct 2021 by

    Played 13th October (last updated 1st October) using OperaTime played: 2 hours, one ending reached Some mid-game story spoilers follow. Short spoiler-free review: this game is very good. A Paradox Between Worlds is a two-hour Choicescript game about fandom and queerness. You play as a blogger and fanfiction writer participating in the Nebulaverse fandom, which… Read more

  • IFComp 2021 review: Ghosts Within (Kyriakos Athanasopoulos)

    15th Oct 2021 by

    Played 8th October via Windows executable (last update 4th October)Time played: 2 hours, no ending reached, 1/50 points (!) Ghosts Within is a large, parser-based mystery game set in and around a coastal village. The player character wakes up in a dark forest, with no memory of how they got there. As they explore the… Read more

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