Infil-traitor

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	infil3.exe fixed competition release MS-DOS Application
	infil2.exe original competition release (buggy) MS-DOS Application
	update.txt Announcement of bug fix
	page3.jpg Part of fake manual
	page2.jpg Part of fake manual
	readme.txt Author's notes (extended story of rediscovering game written in 1982, entirely fictional)
	infil.bas
	back.jpg Part of fake manual
	cover.jpg Part of fake manual
	infila2.bas

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Infil-traitor
by Chris Charla

Espionage
2000

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About the Story

"This is a vintage 1981, never released, adventure game. Check out the read me for more info. Take a trip back in time with Infil-Traitor! (Note: this should take you about 20 minutes to complete.) An exe for PC is included, as is a Mac file that runs on the freeware Chipmunk BASIC (http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/) and source code for C64 and Apple II." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Game Details

Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 2
License: Freeware
Development System: BASIC
Baf's Guide ID: 1135
IFID: Unknown
TUID: bjk2bpymx3h76ewn

Awards

48th Place - 6th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2000)

Editorial Reviews

Baf's Guide

This game is a mystification of sorts: its author passed it off as a text adventure from the early 1980-s he'd found in a shop by accident. This probably predestined the choice of the game's main theme - you're a CIA agent who has got to steal some secret plans from the Soviets. The game parser seems weak even by the standards of those old times; it's a very limited, two-word one, and doesn't support system commands like SAVE, RESTORE, UNDO (heck, even RESTART and QUIT aren't recognized!) Combined with a time limit, and only occasional mentioning of available exits in room descriptions (this annoying characteristic is diminished somewhat, because Infil-traitor is only aware of the 4 cardinal directions), this almost inevitably provides for a few (and with less clever players like myself for QUITE a few) program terminations, which accompany the PC's death in this work of IF. The puzzles are trivial for the most part (there has been one puzzle I've found enjoyable, but I suspect it only has impressed me by contrast to other puzzles therein). On the positive side, Infil-traitor featured some wonderfully rude jokes that made it worth playing for me (I'm fond of black humour), and earned the game's rating an extra star.

-- Valentine Kopteltsev

Infil-traitor on IFDB

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