Tapestry

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Tapestry
by Daniel Ravipinto

Afterlife/Religious/Time Travel
1996

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(based on 18 ratings)
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About the Story

You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the course of your life, or daren't you?
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: October 10, 1996
Current Version: Release 1
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 5
Baf's Guide ID: 208
IFID: ZCODE-1-961010-2FE5
TUID: 7s3fedb0zhcvza7f

Awards

Nominee, Best Writing; Winner, Best Story - 1996 XYZZY Awards

2nd Place - 2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)

Editorial Reviews

Baf's Guide

A small game about fate and accountability. Timothy Hunter (not the boy magician of comic fame, even though Ravipinto seems to be a fan) has died. During a long and mostly noninteractive prologue, an angelic being called Morningstar presents him with the opportunity to relive three crucial moments and undo the decisions that caused him great guilt in his life. Whether he accepts his fate or changes it really is up to the player - there are three contradictory paths through the game. A bit preachy and light on world-modelling, but intriguing and unusually character-based.

-- Carl Muckenhoupt

>VERBOSE -- Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction page
An impressive piece of work.
I thought this was really an impressive piece of work. Yes, it was a bit heavy-handed at times, and probably a little too derivative of Neil Gaiman's visions of Fate and Evil in his Sandman cycle. But nonetheless, I found the situations compelling, the dilemmas convincing, and if a work is going to be derivative of someone, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Gaiman.
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Reviews by C.E. Forman and Duncan Stevens
I loved the writing in "Tapestry," particularly the purgatorial prologue scenes. Vivid and absorbing, the prose makes you feel, which is rare for I-F. ...

Despite my differences with it, though, I must grant that Tapestry is a well-written and, mostly, well-crafted work, with plenty of thought behind it. ...

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Holds up well over the years, May 3, 2009

by Jacqueline A. Lott

We played tapestry on ClubFloyd recently, and took the game through all the various possible threads, something I'd never done on my own, years ago, when I first played it. What I found, first off, is that the game holds up well over a dozen years after initial release, and that second, the path I originally took that I thought best was probably less than ideal. Worth revisiting if you've played before, but only once.

Daniel Ravipinto stated at the time that he wrote the game that his goals were to see if a serious and interesting story could be merged with traditional IF 'puzzle' elements without one overshadowing the other, and to explore mutually-exclusive paths, a pre-defined main character, moral dilemmas, 'puzzle-less' IF, and semi-realistic NPCs. He does a very good job of this. This is a piece of IF well worth downloading.

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