Dual Transform

Dual Transform
Game

Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	2 February 2010
Credits
Author	Andrew Plotkin
Reception
Events	Casual Gameplay Design Competition 7 3rd of 30 XYZZY Awards 2010 Finalist: Best Puzzles
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (113 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Location	Virtual reality
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code
License	Freeware
IFID	62BA0E64-BAC3-4D65-886A-8B59A077F668
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How it begins

Time for a fresh start.

You've been slogging towards the goal -- true metasemanticity -- for months. Code-logic sparkles in your dreams and mutters in your ears. You've made great strides of progress, thrown them away, rewritten, rearranged, refactored -- but the contract deadline is crawling down your throat. No escaping that. You've got to pull this project together, and soon.

So forget all of the environment modelling, the texture cores, the interface splicing. You're going to build on basic physical forces. Like heat, light, maybe mass... Make it feel real, in the user's gut.

Versions

Release 4

Date: 2 February 2010

Dual Transform (Andrew Plotkin as "Nigel Smith"; 02-Feb-2010; Z-code).
- Release 4 / Serial number 100109 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
- IFID: 62BA0E64-BAC3-4D65-886A-8B59A077F668
  IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
- Casual Gameplay Design Competition 7: 3rd place of 30 entries.
- Download DualTransform.zblorb from CGDC7.

Release 5

Date: 25 February 2010

Dual Transform (Andrew Plotkin; 25-Feb-2010; Z-code).
- Release 5 / Serial number 100225 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
- Download Dual.zblorb from the IF Archive

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