Necrotic Drift

Necrotic Drift
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	2004
Credits
Author	Robb Sherwin
Publisher	Feelies.org
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2004 Finalist: Best Game, Best Individual PC, Best Individual Puzzle, Best NPCs, Best Story, Best Use of Medium, Best Writing
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (18 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Horror
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: required. Sound: yes.
Technical details
Authoring system	Hugo
Format	Hugo
License	Freeware
IFID	HUGO-30-58-6F-12-31-09, HUGO-30-64-6A-04-19-22
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How it begins

You are Jarret Duffy, 27-year-old gaming store assistant manager with a relationship on the rocks. You're at the video store with your roommates Gibs, Pang and Criswell, choosing a movie to watch this evening. You have nothing except your glasses.

Notable features

• The game is heavily themed around mechanics of the D&D roleplaying system.
• Written in the first person singular (narrated by Jarret Duffy).
• Every location in the game has at least one unique graphic depicting the room.

Versions

Release 1.02

Date: 2004

• Necrotic Drift (Robb Sherwin; 2004; Hugo).
  • Release 1.02 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.0
  • Music by Ben Parrish and Gerrit Hamilton.
  • Beta-testing by James Bernoski, Jonathan Blask, Greg D'Avis, Joachim Froholt, Paul Kostock, Jacqueline A. Lott, Drew Mochak, Dayna Rich, Gunther Schmidl, Mike Sousa and Adam Thornton.
  • Acting by Lex Gray, Jamie Byrnes, Steve Oelheim, Jill Leckie, Tammy Bancroft, Jonathan Blask, Matthew Davis, Michael Sherwin, Joe Mason, Ben Parrish, Bryan Sailer, Jeff Kyle, Gerrit Hamilton, Adam Parcells, Laura Randall and Dayna Rich.
  • XYZZY Awards 2004: Winner of Best Individual NPC. Finalist for Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best NPCs, Best Use of Medium, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Individual PC.

Release 1.03

Date: 2004

• Necrotic Drift (Robb Sherwin; 2004; Hugo).
  • Release 1.03 / Serial number 040623 / Hugo 3.0
  • IFID: HUGO-30-58-6F-12-31-09
    IFID links: IFDB.
  • Download ndrift-r103.zip from the IF Archive.
  • Included on the GET LAMP DVDs.

Release 1.04

Date: April 2022

• Necrotic Drift (Robb Sherwin; 2004; Hugo).
  • Release 1.04 / Serial number 220420 / Hugo 3.1
  • IFID: HUGO-30-64-6A-04-19-22
    IFID links: IFDB.

Related games

• Part of "New Haz series":
  • Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; publisher: Jolt Country; 2001; Hugo).
  • Necrotic Drift (Robb Sherwin; publisher: Feelies.org; 2004; Hugo).

Links

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General info

• Author's page for Necrotic Drift.
• Feelies.org (publisher) (archive)
• Necrotic Drift (archived) - at Baf's Guide.

Reviews

• Necrotic Drift - at SPAG.
• Necrotic Drift - at IF Ratings.
• Review at Home of the Underdogs.
• Review at Moby Games.
• Review by Terrence Bosky.
• IF-Review and review (archive) at Play This Thing! - by Emily Short.
• Review by Dan Shiovitz.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Necrotic Drift}}. This will display as Necrotic Drift (Robb Sherwin; publisher: Feelies.org; 2004; Hugo).

Date: 2004

Date: 2004

Date: April 2022