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Requires an Alan interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links. (Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.)
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by David Welbourn

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Bugged

by Anssi Räisänen

Surreal
2001

About the Story

The conceit of this game is that your cousin has written a very buggy IF game that you are determined to play through to the end. Can you take advantage of the bugs in the game to get around the other bugs that are blocking your progress?


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SPAG
Some of the bugs strain credulity a bit -- it's not clear what sort of coding error would make an object both out of reach and takeable. Likewise, it sometimes seems like every single object that should be takeable isn't and every one that shouldn't be is, suggesting that the "cousin" simply doesn't understand the word "static" (or an Alan equivalent) -- but on the whole it's a plausible buggy game.

The joke, I suppose, is that the buggy game is more interesting than the non-buggy one would have been; the puzzles that you would have solved are bog-standard, whereas the buggy version at least requires some thinking outside the box.
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Brass Lantern
In the first few moves I found this very frustrating. After all, I hate bug-ridden games but once I caught on to the twisted way of thinking required, I found that "Bugged" was a funny and enjoyable game.
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Page Update History

  v.5: 05-Mar-2016 11:20 - David Welbourn (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.4: 20-Jun-2015 01:27 - David Welbourn
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v.3: 24-Feb-2013 09:40 - Edward Lacey
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v.2: 07-Jul-2008 02:20 - Juhana
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v.1: 29-Sep-2007 20:50 - IFDB
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