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Piracy 2.0 and Nightfall bring up interesting issues regarding player knowledge vs. PC knowledge. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Piracy 2.0, Nightfall →

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Trein, The Ananachronist, and Cry Wolf are well intentioned but have not been tested and should not have been entered in their present form. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Trein, The Ananachronist, Cry Wolf →

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I don’t have a lot to say about Opening Night—not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because, for whatever reason, I find myself not particularly voluble on the subject. It’s good, though. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Opening Night →

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You can guess what Channel Surfing is about from the title. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Channel Surfing →

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Magic is the work of Geoff Fortytwo. I’d assumed this was a pseudonym but it appears to be his actual legally-approved name. Spoilers past the link. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Magic →

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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. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Berrost’s Challenge →

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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. Continue reading IFComp 2008: When Machines Attack →

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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. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Lair of the Cybercow →

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Afflicted and Snack Time are good in entirely opposite ways. Continue reading IFComp 2008: Afflicted, Snack Time →

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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. Continue reading IFComp 2008: A Martian Odyssey →