Make It Good

Make It Good
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	13 April 2009
Credits
Author	Jon Ingold
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2009 Finalist: Best Game, Best Individual PC, Best NPCs, Best Puzzles, Best Story, Best Writing
IFDB rating	4.5 out of 5 (90 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Mystery
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Tough
Accessibility	Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 6
Format	Z-code 8
License	Freeware
IFID	ZCODE-1-090413-B227
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How it begins

You are a police detective, sitting in your car outside the scene of a murder, just you and a bottle of whiskey. You smell of booze. Word is, this is your last chance to solve a major crime and keep your job. When you go to knock on the door, leave the bottle in the car.

Trivia and Comments

• In the game Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me (Michael J. Sousa and Jon Ingold; 2002; TADS 2), Make It Good is mentioned as another game that Jon was working on in an email from Mike to Jon, dated 21 Nov 2001, showing that Make It Good was in development for at least eight years.

Versions

Release 1

Date: 13 April 2009

• Make It Good (Jon Ingold; 13-Apr-2009; Z-code 8).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 090413 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10
  • IFID: ZCODE-1-090413-B227
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • XYZZY Awards 2009: Finalist in six categories: Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, and Best Individual PC (the detective).
  • Download makegood.z8 from the author's site.

Links

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General info

• Homepage.
• Make It Good - at IFDB.
• Make It Good - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

• Review by JohnB - at Jay is Games.
• Review by David Monath - in SPAG.
• Review: 1, 2, and 3 by Carl Muckenhoupt.
• Review by prolixpostoffice. Caution: spoilery!
• Review (archive) by Emily Short - at Play This Thing!

Spoilers

• SPAG Specifics analysis in SPAG #61 by Mark Ricard (02-Jan-2013).

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Make It Good}}. This will display as Make It Good (Jon Ingold; 2009; Inform 6; Z-code).

Date: 13 April 2009