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Lomalow

by Brendan Barnwell

Fantasy
1999

About the Story

"This game has one puzzle, and the solution to this is given immediately as the game begins. It's about loss, sadness, love, mystery, supernatural beings, and moving to a higher plane of existence. It is all about reading what comes up on the screen, and the only "puzzle" is to figure out how to access and read all that text." [--blurb from Competition '99]


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SPAG

I really, really wanted to like this game more than I did. It has a fascinating storyline, evocative writing, and an uplifting theme. If the author had turned the concept into a short story instead of an IF work, it probably would have done very well. But despite all this, the best I could give it was a 5: 10 for imagination, 0 for implementation.
-- Suzanne Britton
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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

So Lomalow is a very flawed game, hampered by its overblown prose and its numbingly iterative design. That's what I have to say as a critic. Now, here's what I have to say as an author. The thing I liked about Lomalow, and the thing that kept it from becoming a purely irritating experience, was the obvious sincerity that was driving it.
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  v.6: 06-May-2022 22:54 - Paul O'Brian (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.5: 01-Jun-2018 22:59 - David Welbourn
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v.4: 26-May-2013 07:26 - Edward Lacey
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v.3: 02-May-2008 13:05 - Paul O'Brian
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v.2: 27-Feb-2008 21:44 - David Welbourn
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v.1: 16-Oct-2007 01:49 - IFDB
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