Rendition

Rendition
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	May 2007
Credits
Author	nespresso
Reception
Events	2007 IF Art Show Portrait Division entry
IFDB rating	2.5 out of 5 (41 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Location	One-room
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Z-code 5
License	Freeware
IFID	B0ED5D09-E8DC-49C8-97BE-D347FFBB9054
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rendition
An interactive war on terror by nespresso

How it begins

You are an "interrogator", carrying nothing, in a makeshift interrogation chamber. The room is bare, except for the door to the south and your prisoner, Abdul, a terrorist captured in an insurgency in the east. Abdul huddles naked in the corner, helpless but defiant. You have been given the plum assignment of "questioning", that is, torturing the prisoner.

Notable features

The game plays with the medium by forcing the player to confront their own complicity. As a result, it has been discussed academically at Cambridge University and at the Association for Computing Machinery's Hypertext 2007 conference.

Versions

Release 1

Date: May 2007

• rendition (nespresso; May-2007; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 070407 / Inform 7 build 4S08 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
  • IFID: B0ED5D09-E8DC-49C8-97BE-D347FFBB9054
    IFID links: IFDB
  • Beta-testing by Andrea Crain and George Oliver.
  • 2007 IF Art Show: Portrait Division entry.
  • Download rendition.z5 from the IF Archive
  • Or download art2007.zip from the IF Art Show site. The zipfile contains entries for all the entries in the 2007 IF Art Show. The story file for this game is rendition.z5.

Links

N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.

General info

• Rendition (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Rendition - at IFDB.
• Wikipedia entry
• Official homepage

Reviews

• Judges' Reviews - Reviews of all the 2007 IF Art Show entries by all the official judges.
• Review (archive) by Emily Short - at Play This Thing!
• Review by Jimmy Maher - at SPAG
• SPAG Specifics analysis in SPAG #53 by Victor Gijsbers (major spoilers) (November 2008).

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Rendition}}. This will display as Rendition (nespresso; 2007; Inform 7; Z-code).

Date: May 2007