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(based on 10 ratings) About the StoryOut of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" that has you play an illiterate person who has an appointment at the hospital to increase his intelligence... Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: April 1, 1998 Current Version: 1 License: Demo Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 993 IFID: ZCODE-1-980301-4192 TUID: oi8xz4jj6fpqh5y6 |
Parser hell! If you've read the novel that this brief "demo" is based on, you can probably guess what I'm talking about. Yes, it's a one-joke game, but it's a pretty good joke.
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
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The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.
This game (one of the many from which Adam Cadre scrubbed his name) is based on Flowers for Algernon. It has extensive styling of the standard parser errors, written in the voice of someone with bad spelling and grammar.
A lot of work went into this joke game, and it's an interesting concept.
This is a very short, one-room game. It's essentially the IF equivalent of a pun - even if you do manage to figure out the single puzzle, you'll end up groaning rather than laughing. If you like that sort of joke, you'll like this.
Justifiable Jokes by Walter Sandsquish
So, I download a game and fire up the 'terp. A dozen or two moves later, I discover that the game is pretty absurd and is already finished. Mostly, this makes me roll my eyes, but these made me smile too.
Games with stupid player characters by murphy_slaw
I'm looking for games where the player character is significantly stupider and/or less observant than the average player - the kind of game where part of the challenge is making sense of the descriptions offered through the simplistic...