Big Red Button

Big Red Button
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	17 January 2010
Credits
Author	Mister Nose
Reception
IFDB rating	1 out of 5 (7 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Comedy
Location	One-room
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
IFID	71FBAF31-1A59-4210-B1A8-74B6A83B6350
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How it begins

You might be anyone, carrying nothing, standing in the temple of the Big Red Button. DO NOT CLICK IT.

Notable features

An exercise in futility. The only action that accomplishes anything is "CLICK BUTTON", but you'll always lose points that way. There is no winning ending.
The two versions are nearly identical. The only difference is that the Ending Edition ends the game when 100 points have been lost, and the Everlasting Edition never ends regardless of how many points are lost until you type QUIT or close the interpreter.

Trivia and Comments

Nothing happens if you PUSH or PRESS the button. Only CLICK is the forbidden action.
A similar game in concept is Sisyphus (Theo Koutz; 2006; Z-code 8).

Versions

Ending Edition

Date: 17 January 2010

Big Red Button (Mister Nose; 17-Jan-2010; Z-code 5).
- Release 1 / Serial number 100116 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
- IFID: 71FBAF31-1A59-4210-B1A8-74B6A83B6350
  IFID links: IFDB
- Download Big_Red_Button_Ending_Edition.z5 from the author's site.

For all intents and purposes, both versions were released simultaneously.

Everlasting Edition

Date: 17 January 2010

Big Red Button (Mister Nose; 17-Jan-2010; Z-code 5).
- Release 1 / Serial number 100116 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
- IFID: 71FBAF31-1A59-4210-B1A8-74B6A83B6350
  IFID links: IFDB
- Download Big_Red_Button_Everlasting_Edition.z5 from the author's site.

Links

General info

Big Red Button homepage.
Big Red Button - at IFDB.
Big Red Button - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Big Red Button}}. This will display as Big Red Button (Mister Nose; 2010; Inform 7; Z-code).

Date: 17 January 2010