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Previous | << 1 2 >> | Next | Show All >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction The Arrival is the first HTML-TADS game I've ever played, certainly the first competition game ever to include pictures and sound. I was quite curious as to how these elements would be handled, and maybe even a little apprehensive. I wasn't sure that a lone hobbyist could create visual and musical elements that wouldn't detract from a game more than they added to it. But Arrival dispelled those fears, handling both pictures and sound brilliantly...
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A Zany Alien Encounter!, December 29, 2021by feamir This story brings to mind the Calvin and Hobbes comics and the Adventures of Spaceman Spiff! Arrival is a short game jam-packed with jokes and references. The prose is light and funny, and the puzzles are just difficult enough to make you pause for thought. All of the attention to detail, from descriptions of objects to the invalid-command dialogue, kept me giggling in delight. 10/10 would play again! :D Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Pulp sci-fi, October 29, 2021by G. Faregan The premise is that you are a child helping the suspiciously friendly aliens that landed in your backyard. The puzzles are classic text adventure, ie irritating. But I'm a sucker for pulp sci-fi. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Like Roald Dahl with crayon illustrations; an alien game, February 4, 2016by MathBrush This shortish HTML TADS game was the first to use that platform, incorporating images into the text. The images are crayon drawings and playdough photographs. These worked in HTML TADS on my Windows machine, but something was wrong with the text formatting and status line, and the game crashed. I finished on Gargoyle with no images. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Lots of Tongue-in-Cheek Fun, March 2, 2013Granade has put together a wonderful pastiche that crosses elements of an Ed Wood film and a young boy's English class writing assignment. Two ridiculous aliens (made of modeling clay in the game's illustrations) land their spaceship (two pie plates taped together) in your backyard. They decide that you, an eight-year-old child, are Earth's ambassador. From there, you explore a crudely (but appealingly) crayon-illustrated world in your attempts to thwart their invasion while seeming to meet their demands. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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