Perspectives

Perspectives
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	15 December 2009
Credits
Author	Justahack
Reception
Events	The Even Competition 3rd of 3
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genre	Drama
Location	One-room
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	ADRIFT 4
Format	ADRIFT 4
License	Freeware
IFID	ADRIFT-400-DD66328311577E9E64D3D556F526EEAC
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How it begins

You might be anyone carrying nothing. You were walking to your room at the resort complex when some commotion behind you knocked you out.

You regain consciousness in a locked small bathroom with two other men: one is badly injured and bleeding, the other is busily boarding up the door with a hammer, nails, and planks. Also in the room is a tub, a medicine cabinet, a toolbox, and a pistol.

Two other men are angrily pounding on the door from the other side. What to do?

Notable features

• This game satisfied the Even Comp constraints by implementing only 2 rooms, 8 objects, 14 tasks, 12 events, and 4 characters.
• The author describes this as a "semi-dynamic game". Characters in this game have agendas and will proceed with them even if the PC does nothing but wait.
• New events are preceded with three exclamation marks (!!!), centered on their own line in the transcript, to distinguish events from "action feedback".
• Conversation is limited to "TALK TO character" commands.
• Multiple endings. However, several of the endings are merely stated and do not properly end the game.

Versions

Even Comp release

Date: 15 December 2009

• Perspectives (Justahack; 15-Dec-2009; ADRIFT 4).
  • IFID: ADRIFT-400-DD66328311577E9E64D3D556F526EEAC
    IFID links: IFDB
  • The Even Competition: xth place of 3 entries.
  • Download EvenComp.zip from the ADRIFT site. The story file for this game is perspectives.taf.

Links

General info

• Perspectives - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

• Reviews - on the ADRIFT Forum.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Perspectives}}. This will display as Perspectives (Justahack; 2009; ADRIFT 4).

Date: 15 December 2009