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Dreams Run Solid

by Caleb Wilson profile

Fantasy, Surreal
2001

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Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction Page
Walkthrough Comp
This is, I think, is the IF that Tim Burton would write, if he gave up movies and did ten or fifteen years' hard time on an ant farm and then took a couple of classes in cross-cultural mythology and was assigned to write IF as therapy and...

Let me start over.

This is some really weird stuff. It's really weird the way that children's literature is often weird; it strings together imagery like beads on a tenuous plot. It comes, suitably enough, with a picture, which is creepy and only somewhat comprehensible. But it certainly isn't anything I would read to a six-year-old unless I wanted to be responsible for severe trauma: it's all insects and blades, implements of sacrifice and spoiled flesh, where hideous bends around and comes nose to nose with being beautiful again.
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Brass Lantern
TelegramComp Games Review
Where Constraints is all over the map, Dreams runs straight with a very consistent surreal tone. I think of all of the entries that were actual games, this one seemed to me to be the most plausible "could exist outside the comp", although that degree of plausibility is still not very high. But I think it works better as a game than Constraints, despite the fact that I had 10x the number of things to talk about with Constraints. (Sean Barrett)
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Page Update History

  v.5: 27-Feb-2021 04:03 - Zape (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.4: 30-Apr-2014 09:45 - Caleb Wilson
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v.3: 23-Apr-2014 14:42 - Caleb Wilson
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v.2: 09-Dec-2008 09:26 - David Welbourn
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v.1: 16-Oct-2007 01:47 - IFDB
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