The Edifice

by Lucian P. Smith profile

Historical, Science Fiction
1997

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- Clemency Jones (England), August 26, 2010

- Celestianpower (Gloucestershire, UK), August 7, 2010

- Joel Webster (Madison, WI), July 26, 2010

- Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), February 15, 2010

- Kake (London, England), December 5, 2009

- Divide (Wroclaw, Poland), September 16, 2009

- Sorrel, September 2, 2009

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Good concept, mediocre execution, August 23, 2009

The Edifice has you participate/spectate a few events occurring along the timeline of evolution of an anthropoid species (presumably, (Spoiler - click to show)Australopithecus, Homo Erectus, Neanderthal (?), and finally Homo Sapiens). It's an interesting conceit, and one segment has a particularly interesting puzzle in which you piece together a stranger's language... but in practice, it's just a little too clumsily put together, and somehow the emotional connection just never quite clicked for me.

If you want to try it without referring to the walkthrough, be aware that Edifice will expect some rather non-clued and non-standard language (for IF) in places.

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
An awesome time travel game, August 21, 2009

Wonderfully put together, with a feel to it that reminds me of a combination between civilization, the intro of 2001, and an exploration game...this masterful work of IF charts your prehistoric exploration of a large black stone monolith, which leads throughout time and space. To say more would give away the plot, but the game has several endings and is very satisfying.

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- Stephen Gilbert (Canada), July 11, 2009

- Miron (Berlin, Germany), June 29, 2009

- Newbot, March 8, 2009

- Ben, February 10, 2009

- Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), January 12, 2009

- Shigosei, December 7, 2008

- hywelhuws (Clynnog Fawr, Wales, UK), September 19, 2008

- Wesley (Iowa City, Iowa), September 1, 2008

- Anders Hellerup Madsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), July 21, 2008

- Ben Treat (Maine, USA), July 11, 2008

- Zoltar, June 17, 2008

- TCWT, May 2, 2008

- Dave Chapeskie (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), April 23, 2008

- zer, March 3, 2008

- jfpbookworm (Hamburg, New York), February 28, 2008

- tfbk, January 10, 2008


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