Super Doomed Planet

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) Mark Hatfield’s Berrost’s Challenge agressively resisted my attempts to enjoy it. Spoilers reside in a magical spoiler land entered by passing through the link.

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) When Machines Attack lives somewhere beyond good and bad. I’m including some comments on last year’s Press Escape to Save, too. Spoilers past the link.

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) What is Lair of the Cybercow? A gag? Just a really bad game? I have no idea, and that’s the only reason it’s getting its own post. Spoilers past the link.

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) Afflicted and Snack Time are good in entirely opposite ways.

Zombies are hip. They’re in our movies and comics and major investment firms. You can’t walk more than a few blocks without stumbling across some shambling horde of loosely anatomical types desperate for brains. Zombies, it seems, are the new ninjas. So the cover of White Darkness—on which a smiling Doctor, intrigued Ace, and off-model [...]

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) A Martian Odyssey is based on the short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum. This works about as well as these adaptations usually do, which is to say not really.

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(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) Freedom is not about freedom. You probably won’t have the slightest idea what it’s about until you read the ABOUT text. Which is sort of the problem.

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) This is a review of Nerd Quest. In brief: don’t play Nerd Quest. Spoilers, such as they are, past the link.

IFComp 2008: Everybody Dies (This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review .) This next review is of Everybody Dies, in which everybody dies. Actual spoilers reside past the link.