mjhayes

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I was a lurker on the IF scene when I was in college in the '90s. I had "gone retro" on the videogame scene and was not interested in next-gen games of the day, and so I tried out old computer games until I had stumbled upon Zork. When I had asked whether Zork had been ported to Unix-based systems, somebody pointed me to the IF archive, and I ended up spending many happy hours in the computer labs doing the computer game equivalent of reading a book.

To this day, I still play Anchorhead, which was a new release at the time. There were a lot of other pieces of IF that were otherwise well-written but were written for IF "gamers," slamming the player with one difficult puzzle after another throughout the whole course of the story. I have a lot to say about Anchorhead, which I will do in the appropriate forum.

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Kaged, by Ian Finley   January 8, 2016

"I entered into this story, expecting an interactive story not unlike 1984. It certainly seems to start off that way. You play as a minor..." - See the full review

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti   December 11, 2015

"I played this game immediately after playing Andromeda Awakening. To be honest, I didn't have very high expectations for this game,..." - See the full review

Andromeda Ascending, by Truthcraze   December 10, 2015

"No doubt players of Andromeda Awakening would know the bar was set very high. Andromeda Dreaming was by a different author and was short,..." - See the full review

Tree and Star, by Paul Lee   December 10, 2015

"I had played this game with high expectations after playing the other games in the Andromeda series. Whereas Andromeda Dreaming added..." - See the full review

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones   December 10, 2015

"Since I only recently discovered the Andromeda games, I had no idea about the competition, or about the supposed controversy the original..." - See the full review

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