Book and Volume
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 City  Science Fiction |
| Book and Volume | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Nick Montfort |
| Publisher(s) | Auto Mata |
| Release date(s) | 17-Nov-2005 |
| Authoring system | Inform 6 |
| Platform(s) | Z-code 5 |
| Language(s) | English |
| License(s) | Freeware |
| Multimedia | |
| Color effects | none |
| Graphics | none |
| Sound/Music | none |
| Ratings | |
| Cruelty scale | Cruelty to be determined |
How It Begins
Your pager tickles you awake.
Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You should have been awake already. You're going to miss the bus. Your mother climbs in the window. You're dreaming.
Notable Features
- Selected for inclusion in the Iowa Web Review.
- Selected for the Medi@terra International Art+Technology Festival: Gaming Realities 2006.
- Selected for the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition 2007. (Withdrawn by Montfort in protest of Slamdance's exclusion of another finalist.)
Versions
Release 8
- Book and Volume (Nick Montfort; 2005; Z-code 5).
- IFID: ZCODE-8-051225-F1A0
IFID links: IFDB - XYZZY Awards 2005: Finalist for Best Use of Medium.
- Download bookvol.z5 from the IF Archive. Story file.
- Spoiler-free map. PDF file. Recommended.
- IFID: ZCODE-8-051225-F1A0
Links
- Home page for Book and Volume.
- Book and Volume (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
- Book and Volume - at IFDB.
- Book and Volume - at Electronic Literature Collection Volume Two.
Spoilers
- Spoiler map. PDF file by the author. This version of the map has spoilers for the puzzles of the game.
- ClubFloyd transcript.
- ClubFloyd plays Book and Volume. Follow-up post on the author's Post Position blog.