Monza's Phantom

Monza's Phantom
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	December 2006
Credits
Authors	Sebastiano Gobbo and Federico Gobbo
Reception
IFDB rating	1.5 out of 5 (2 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Fantasy
Location	City
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
IFDB play time	2 minutes
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code
License	Freeware
IFID	A22B0633-F340-4292-BD9C-9F78A23C106D
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How it begins

You might be anyone carrying nothing, standing in Piazza Roma, a town square in Monza. There is a fountain here and a middle-aged building to the east. You've been asked to find the lost great phantom of Monza.

Notable features

• Poor English, yet understandable. Authors' first language isn't English, but Italian. It was born as a Saturday's divertissement. Sebastiano (13 years) asked his oldest brother Federico "to do something new and exciting with a computer" -- the game was written entirely in two hours, with Federico as the coach and Sebastiano as the main author. It is their first IF game.
• The first release had an elided puzzle bug: the locked door could be ignored entirely. It was corrected in the second release.

Trivia and Comments

• Monza is a real city near Milan, Italy.

Versions

Release 1

Date: December 2006

• Monza's Phantom (Sebastiano Gobbo and Federico Gobbo; Dec-2006; Z-code).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 061208 / Inform 7 build 3M43 (I6/v6.30 lib 6/10N)
  • IFID: A22B0633-F340-4292-BD9C-9F78A23C106D
    IFID links: IFDB
  • Room count: 3.
  • Download MonzasPhantom.zblorb from the IF Archive.

Links

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

• Monza's Phantom (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• A post about the game in Federico Gobbo's blog

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Monza's Phantom}}. This will display as Monza's Phantom (Sebastiano Gobbo and Federico Gobbo; 2006; Inform 7; Z-code).

Date: December 2006