Ditch Day Drifter
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| Ditch Day Drifter | |
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| Published | 1990 |
| Credits | |
| Author | Michael J. Roberts |
| Reception | |
| IFDB rating | 3 out of 5 (22 ratings) |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Parser |
| Literary genre |  Science fiction |
| Location |  School |
| Language | English |
| Cruelty scale | Merciful |
| Accessibility | Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none. |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | TADS 2 |
| Format | TADS 2 |
| License | Freeware |
| IFID | TADS2-C15B8633FF25B25DB1E61DE870D19D68 |
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How it begins
You are an undergraduate Caltech student, and the campus is holding the annual Ditch Day. Ditch Day is an event where senior students leave behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to break into the senior's rooms.
Notable features
- Ditch Day Drifter is the original TADS sample game, but is also a fully fleshed-out interactive fiction game.
- The game is highly linear. It contains several easy, well-planned puzzles; however, solving some of the more-or-less independent puzzles does not necessarily advance the plot.
- Though none of the NPCs in the game are conversational, their behavior is well-developed.
- The protagonist's story continues into another TADS game, Deep Space Drifter, though the latter is not necessarily its sequel.
- The game contains references to the Infocom game Planetfall.
Versions
Release 1.0
Date: 1990
Related games
- Ported as Ditch Day Drifter (Inform 6 port) (Michael J. Roberts; porters: Chris Markwyn and Neil Cerutti; 2000; Inform 6).
- Translated in Ditch Day Drifter (Russian translation) (Michael J. Roberts; translator: Andrey Grankin; 2003; TADS 2; Russian).
Links
N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.
- Ditch Day Drifter (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
- The History of Ditch Day (archive), by Mike Roberts (recorded by Neil Cerutti).
Reviews
- Ditch Day Drifter - at SPAG
Spoilers
Date: 1990