Rendition

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One-room 2007 IF Art Show Portrait Division entry

rendition
An interactive war on terror by nespresso

rendition
Author(s)	nespresso
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	May-2007
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruelty to be determined

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Notable Features 3 Versions 3.1 Release 1 4 Links 4.1 General info 4.2 Reviews

How It Begins

You are an "interrogator", carrying nothing, in a makeshift interrogation chamber. The room is bare, except for the door to the south and your prisoner, Abdul, a terrorist captured in an insurgency in the east. Abdul huddles naked in the corner, helpless but defiant. You have been given the plum assignment of "questioning", that is, torturing the prisoner.

Notable Features

The game plays with the medium by forcing the player to confront their own complicity. As a result, it has been discussed academically at Cambridge University and at the Association for Computing Machinery's Hypertext 2007 conference.

Versions

Release 1

• rendition (nespresso; May-2007; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 070407 / Inform 7 build 4S08 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
  • IFID: B0ED5D09-E8DC-49C8-97BE-D347FFBB9054
    Babel: metadata, download. (Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • Beta-testing by Andrea Crain and George Oliver.
  • 2007 IF Art Show: Portrait Division entry.
  • Download rendition.z5 ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive
  • Or download art2007.zip from the IF Art Show site. The zipfile contains entries for all the entries in the 2007 IF Art Show. The story file for this game is rendition.z5.

Links

General info

• Rendition - at Baf's Guide.
• Rendition - at IFDB .
• Wikipedia entry
• Official homepage

Reviews

• Judges' Reviews - Reviews of all the 2007 IF Art Show entries by all the official judges.
• Review by Emily Short - at Play This Thing!
• Review by Jimmy Maher - at SPAG