Disenchantment Bay

Disenchantment Bay
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	6 January 2013
Credits
Author	Jacqueline A. Lott
Reception
Events	The ultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF Participant
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (5 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Slice of life
Location	Ship
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code
License	Freeware
IFID	//F1B009C5-E955-46FD-92DD-1B4A61F319B1//
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How it begins

You are a tourist visiting chilly Disenchantment Bay on a chartered boat. You begin play in the cabin, where the captain controls his vessel. As a tourist you're not carrying many possessions, only a pair of sunglasses and a backpack holding a warm coke.

Your goal is simply to do some light fishing in the brisk Alaskan waters.

Notable features

• This game is based heavily on the Disenchantment Bay example written by Emily Short for the Inform 7 Documentation. Notably, the setup and the central puzzle are still the same. But many environmental details have been polished and expanded.

Trivia and Comments

• Both the game and the example were inspired by a real boat trip taken by Emily Short, Dan Shiovitz, Sam Kabo Ashwell, and Jacqueline A. Lott to the Hubbard Glacier in 2004.

Versions

Release 1

Date: 6 January 2013

• Disenchantment Bay (Jacqueline A. Lott; 06-Jan-2013; Z-code).
  • Other contributors: Emily Short (created the Inform 7 example from which this game was based on).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 130104 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: //F1B009C5-E955-46FD-92DD-1B4A61F319B1//
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • The ultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF: entry.
  • Disenchantment Bay.zblorb.

Links

General info

• Disenchantment Bay at the author's website.
• Disenchantment Bay - at IFDB.

Spoilers

• Transcript by ClubFloyd.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Disenchantment Bay}}. This will display as Disenchantment Bay (Jacqueline A. Lott; 2013; Inform 7; Z-code).

Date: 6 January 2013