Great Openings - an IFDB Poll
by Floating Info
RSS FeedWhat games have your favorite openings? By opening I mean everything before the first room description in a parser game or the first screen of a choice game. It could be a sentence, a few sentences, a paragraph, or more. But I'm looking more for what comes before the first player action as opposed to the entire first scene.
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt 4 votes "Everyone remembers this one" [+]"Everyone remembers this one: (even though they generally remember it wrong!)" ( ) --Emily Boegheim... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Floating Info... "My first thought." [+]"My first thought." ( - Full review) --Simon Deimel... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol...  Vote for this game | |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota 3 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sdn... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Floating Info... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --Floating Info... (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Floating Info... Vote for this game | |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "The abrupt..." [+]"The abrupt scene-switching makes this one of my fave beginnings of all time (even though I find the game itself very difficult!)." --Danielle... Vote for this game | |
| Legion, by Jason Devlin 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... Vote for this game | |
| Absence of Law, by mathbrush 1 vote "Dr. Law asking you to step in for him" [+]"Dr. Law asking you to step in for him" ( ) --Kinetic Mouse Car... Vote for this game | |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 1 vote "All that intro text is necessary to provide the story setting" [+]"All that intro text is necessary to provide the story setting: Contrast Beyond Zork, whose intro leaves you knowing the whole object is to retrieve the Coconut. Knowing only that your first task at hand is to meet the absent real estate agent, and with a large (for an IF game) world to explore, complete with vivid descriptions of each location, you know you're in for a captivating story." ( - Full review) --mjhayes... Vote for this game | |
| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Vote for this game | |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Floating Info... Vote for this game | |