Sparky and Boots

IF Art Show
Review by Sam Barlow
Sparky and Boots offers a minimal description of the world and events. Interaction with the pets is linear and so feels scripted and false.
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IF Art Show
Review by Marnie Parker
The author demonstrated he can write, program, and debug. I found no serious flaws, although I couldn't get Sparky and Boots to move to the living room. This may have been a bug, or it may have been because I didn't do things in exactly the right order. Because this piece suffered from having too many sequential puzzles.
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I've been reading up on the IF Art Show recently, and was particularly interested in playing some of the games (pieces?) from the "portrait" category (besides Galatea, which was one of the first parsers I played). This one... didn't work for me. It does little to capture the personalities of the individual animals (the eponymous Sparky and Boots, a dog and a cat respectively), instead creating a rote mechanical exercise of "feed, pet, throw ball, repeat" (only, more frustrating than that because these actions must be done a certain number of times and in a certain order to make progress). Having a score system seemed antithetical to the spirit of the Art Show, driving me toward completing a goal instead of meaningfully interacting with the subjects--and there wasn't really any meaningful interaction to be had. So unfortunately, for me this fails as both a portrait and a game.

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