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A proof of concept, rather than a game, February 18, 2013by explorington ...so don't expect much. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Jonathan Blask, February 23, 2013 - Reply I think this review misses the fact that TADS doesn't support videos and that there are clever hack-y things going on here. explorington, March 4, 2013 - Reply Well, if you play this .gam, you will see a video after a short while, you need to (Spoiler - click to show)"watch tv" when in the bar, so, actually, TADS can play a video. As you say, there is no doubt that the interpreter is abused somehow, although I have to admit I do not know TADS well enough to imagine how to. The whole point of my review is just to point out that this can be done, so others can try and take advantage of this...ehrr.."un-official feature". Jonathan Blask, March 25, 2013 - Reply No, see, it's not a video. It's a bunch of ASCII characters being printed with a timer, giving the illusion of a video- kind of like an ASCII flipbook. There is no video file in the .gam. We call these kinds of things "abuses" because they use the relevant IF language in unexpected ways, but for the most part, they are actually fun additions to game libraries. explorington, March 26, 2013 - Reply Now that I look at it with more attention, I think you are right. It undoubtely took a lot of work to time the characters, thouugh, so the author deserves a review nonetheless, IMHO |