JINXTRON

JINXTRON
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	19 March 2010
Credits
Author	Duncan Bowsman
Gameplay
Interaction style	Other
Literary genre	Comedy
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Merciful
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	ADRIFT 4
Format	ADRIFT 4
License	Freeware
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How it begins

You are Duncan Bowsman at a young age, invited to play a game of Jinx by one of his brothers. Unfortunately, since you can't actually be him and his brothers can't be available for comment every time someone fires up the program, Duncan's brain has been replaced with a text parser interface and JINXTRON stands in for his brothers.

But the gist is still the same.

Notable features

• Does not use standard IF commands. Instead, typed words are understood to be spoken words. A blank line is understood to be something spoken, but incomprehensible.

Trivia & Comments

• Written as an example of interactive non-fiction for ADRIFT's March Writing Spiel.

Versions

Version 1

Date: 19 March 2010

• JINXTRON (Duncan Bowsman; 19-Mar-2010; ADRIFT 4).
  • Download Jinx.taf from the ADRIFT site.

Links

General info

• JINXTRON - at IFDB.
• JINXTRON - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|JINXTRON}}. This will display as JINXTRON (Duncan Bowsman; 2010; ADRIFT 4).

Date: 19 March 2010