Limerick Heist

Limerick Heist
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	1 October 2019
Credits
Author	Pace Smith
Reception
Events	IFComp 2019 8th of 82
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (29 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Choice
Literary genre	Espionage
Language	English
Cruelty scale	Cruel
IFDB play time	20 minutes
Technical details
Authoring system	Twine
System	Browser
IFID	9372A64A-609B-4258-9211-98FCFF17A646
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How it begins

The game opens with the mastermind explaining the plan for the heist:

A warehouse. A bare room downstairs.
A chalkboard. Four hard wooden chairs.
One mastermind: you,
addressing your crew:
four misfits who want what's not theirs.

Then, the game truly begins by flashing back to one week earlier, where the player must recruit the four crew members.

Notable features

• Wordplay. All the text in the game, including the options menu and credits, is in limerick form.

• Characters are color-coded. The name of each character and the dialogue of that character appears in a color specific to that character.

Versions

Competition Version

Date: 1 October 2019

• Limerick Heist (Pace Smith; 01-Oct-2019; Twine).
  • Cover art by Kelly Kingman.
  • Beta testing by Viv Dunstan, Mike Carletta, Liz Dykes, Ryan Tan, Dawn Sueoka, Freedom To Be, Amanda Ray, and Ant.
  • IFID: 9372A64A-609B-4258-9211-98FCFF17A646
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • IF Comp 2019: 8th place of 82 entries.
  • Download

Post-Comp Version

Date: Date unknown

• Play

Links

General info

• Limerick Heist - at IFDB

Reviews

• Review by MathBrush.
• Review by Thomas Mack.
• Review by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
• Review by Lynda Clark.

Streams

• Stream by thomaswdyoung.

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Date: 1 October 2019

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