Renga in Blue   Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project

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The intro to this game mentions that playing it with SCARE is 99% close to the real experience, but it causes textual errors to crop up. I’d recommend the ADRIFT Runner if you’re using Windows.

This review has slight spoilers for the ending.

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Yes, it’s time for Pac-Man: The Text Adventure.

You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

Ok, so it’s more like Wumpus or something. It tries to be a literal translation, unlike Adam Cadre’s Pac-Man as drug addict story.

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This review is a two-parter: first I give a general review without spoilers, and then after some space I comment on one puzzle and specifics of the ending.

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It’s time to go back to the early 19th century for Eduard the Seminarist.

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Review down below; note there are very mild spoilers about the puzzles.

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Next on the agenda is Wish, a Christmas vignette.

I write this on Halloween. Theming, what theming?

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Next up is the philosophical fantasy/educational game, The Chinese Room.

I should mention this is an at-the-2-hour-judging-mark review, because I get the impression it will be long after the competition is over before I finish.

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