Book and Volume

Book and Volume
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	17 November 2005
Credits
Author	Nick Montfort
Publisher	Auto Mata
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2005 Finalist: Best Use of Medium
IFDB rating	3.5 out of 5 (13 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Science fiction
Location	City
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 6
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
IFID	ZCODE-8-051225-F1A0
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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 (Withdrawn by Montfort in protest of Slamdance's exclusion of another finalist.)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

Date: 25 December 2005

• 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.

Links

N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.

• 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.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Book and Volume}}. This will display as Book and Volume (Nick Montfort; publisher: Auto Mata; 2005; Inform 6; Z-code).

Date: 25 December 2005