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ToasterCompNosrc.zip *
Contains Z-Code/SpittingCrumbs/crumbs.z5
Story file.
Requires a Z-Code interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links.
ToasterCompWithSrc.zip *
Contains Z-Code/SpittingCrumbs/source/crumbs.inf
Source code.
Walkthrough and map
by David Welbourn
* Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.

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Spitting Crumbs

by Duncan Cross

2000

(based on 4 ratings)
1 review

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A surreal game where you made a slice of toast with butter and "jam". Expect explosions.


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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Well, it's interactive..., March 29, 2010

This extremely short work is an entry to "The Great IF Toaster Contest". See http://www.ministryofpeace.com/if/toaster-comp/ for details.

As the site explains:

"The rules are very simple: Make a toaster. The toaster should have a lever on it (to push down the bread) and a slide or dial to set the toastedness to. See how much of a game you can make out of it -- let your imagination run wild, as they say."

This piece seems to interpret the instructions as one might an assignment for a programming course. There is a toaster, and the author's imagination does seem to have run a little wild.

While it would get at least a passing grade in the imagined course, it is completely lacking in any of the things that would qualify it as interactive fiction. It is an interactive coding exercise, and nothing more.

It seems safe to assume that the author, Duncan Cross, was new to writing IF at the time this piece was created. I see that there are several other works by the same author available on IFDB, and I would certainly not shy away from trying out another one in the hopes that his talents have matured.

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