Battle of the Planets

Battle of the Planets
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	21 January 2001
Credits
Author	Gunther Schmidl
Reception
Events	Speed-IF 2001 Participant
IFDB rating	1.5 out of 5 (4 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Surreal
Location	Outer space
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 6
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
IFID	ZCODE-1-010121-3799
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How it begins

You might be anyone from New Orleans, carrying nothing, on the barren moon Io. Your toy Aluminum Hamster and an Ioan yak are here. You have no obvious goals.

Notable features

This is a very short and silly game with a guess-the-verb challenge at the beginning.

Versions

Release 1

Date: 21 January 2001

Battle of the Planets (Gunther Schmidl; 21-Jan-2001; Z-code 5).
- Release 1 / Serial number 010121 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10
- IFID: ZCODE-1-010121-3799
  IFID links: IFDB
- Speed-IF 2001 entry.
- Room count: 2.
- Download SpeedIF_2001.zip from the IF Archive - All the games in Speed-IF 2001. The story file for this game is sif2001.z5.

Links

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