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Memorable use of debugger, March 27, 2021by Victor Gijsbers (The Netherlands) Institute for Advanced Genetics or Incomplete Adventure Game: I.A.G. Alpha presents itself as an unfinished alpha version of a game set in a dubious research facility. The purported story is hackneyed in the extreme, with an obsessed scientist failing to ask questions about the ethics of his work until one day he finds out that his partner has not really been finding ‘volunteers’ at all… after which there’s a dramatic rooftop fight and the good and the bad guy both die. Fortunately, this story is merely the backdrop for something much more interesting: our quest to get through the game using the debugger. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Twisty Turney Little Game, November 4, 2019Being relatively new to the world of IF, I have been working my way through the XYZZY 2018 Award winners. I figured starting with a "best of the best" list was probably a good way to give the genre the best possible opportunity. So far, I.A.G. Alpha has been my favorite. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- lunaterra (GA, USA), August 6, 2019 - Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), August 2, 2019 - Sobol (Russia), July 26, 2019 - Denk, May 2, 2019 - Max Crow (United States), February 12, 2019 3 of
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A brilliant choice game with a meta narrative and text input, February 3, 2019This is a well-done IFComp 2018 game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (4) - Add comment
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Brilliant meta game, November 23, 2018by Spike I.A.G. Alpha was my favorite game from IFComp 2018, and I played all of them. An English translation of a work originally written in Russian, I.A.G. Alpha appears to be an unfinished game about a guy working at a post-Soviet research institute. Its opening text consists of a note from the author explaining that he never finished writing the game but decided to release what he had written anyway. On the second screen there are comments like "TODO: finish the scene on the roof" and "TODO: comment out the debugger." And, sure enough, there's a DEBUGGER command in the upper right corner that lets you peek into parts of the game's source code. After a few scenes the author stops the action once again, this time to say that he thinks the introductory text is too long, to detail what his original plan for the game was, and then to explain more about why he never finished it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
IFComprehensive All the different interfaces are well done individually and combine into a coherent whole. The conceit of reviving an earlier buggy game is charming, and the missing graphics and author notes throughout the game are excellent touches.
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