Guard Duty by Jason F. Finx [Comp99]
IFDB page: Guard Duty Final placement: 36th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition Wow, now that’s really too bad. As with The Water Bird, I knew that there was a fatal bug in Guard...
View ArticleSkyranch by Jack Driscoll [Comp99]
IFDB page: Skyranch Final placement: 37th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition In my head, I’ve started this review a dozen different ways and discarded them all. The unused...
View ArticleMusic Education by Bill Linney [Comp99]
IFDB page: Music Education Final placement: 24th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition In Music Education, you play a college student majoring in music. The game takes place in and...
View ArticleThorfinn’s Realm by Roy Main and Robert Hall [Comp99]
IFDB page: Thorfinn’s Realm Final placement: 28th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition For someone who has always loved playing IF, the first few attempts at programming it can be...
View ArticleLomalow by Brendan Barnwell [Comp99]
IFDB page: Lomalow Final placement: 21st place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition Ever feel like you’re first reader for the slushpile? I get that feeling sometimes as I near the end...
View ArticleFour Seconds by Jason Reigstad [Comp99]
IFDB page: Four Seconds Final placement: 15th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition Maybe I’m just getting cranky, but I really feel that this year’s competition games are a lot...
View ArticleKing Arthur’s Night Out by Mikko Vuorinen [Comp99]
IFDB page: King Arthur’s Night Out Final placement: 22nd place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition This game depicts King Arthur in a way I’ve never seen him before. Instead of tragic...
View ArticleBeat The Devil by Robert M. Camisa [Comp99]
IFDB page: Beat The Devil Final placement: 9th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition If you grew up in suburban America in the 1980s or 90s, what would be your vision of Hell? Where...
View ArticleExhibition by Ian Finley as Anatoly Domokov [Comp99]
IFDB page: Exhibition Final placement: 5th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition Exhibition is a game of absences. It has no plot. It also has no puzzles, at least not in the way...
View ArticleLunatix: The Insanity Circle by Mike Snyder [Comp99]
IFDB page: Lunatix – The Insanity Circle Final placement: 12th place (of 37) in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition Early on in Lunatix, I typed “X TUKE.” The game responded, “It looks just like...
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