Shuffling Around

Shuffling Around
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	30 September 2012
Credits
Author	Andrew Schultz
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2012 Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle, Best Puzzles IFComp 2012 7th of 28
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (26 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Comedy Surreal Wordplay
Language	English
Accessibility	Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 7
Format	Glulx
License	Freeware
IFID	DD99C26A-BB78-4EC9-8F00-8D04C7DDBAFF
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Versions

Release 1 (Competition release)

Date: 30 September 2012

• Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz as "Ned Yompus"; 30-Sep-2012; Glulx).
  • Testers: Adri, Anthony Hope, DJ Hastings, Melvin Rangasamy as "Gavin Myers-Leman", Hulk Handsome, Joey Jones, Wade Clarke as "John Nitchals", Paul Lee, Robert Patten, and Kevin Jackson-Mead as "Tomie Campf".
  • Cover art: Wade Clarke as "John Nitchals".
  • Release 1 / Serial number 120929 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: DD99C26A-BB78-4EC9-8F00-8D04C7DDBAFF
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • IF Comp 2012: 7th place of 28 entries.
  • Download Comp12.zip from the IF Archive. All games entered in IF Comp 2012.
  • Download IFComp2012.exe from the IF Archive. Windows installer.
  • Play it online.

Release 2

Date: Date unknown

• There was no real release 2, as a binary was actually released as an open Beta shortly after IFComp concluded before the author got distracted by other projects. It incorporated colored text.

Release 3

Date: 2014

• Submitted September 14, 2014
  • Additional testing: Sean M. Shore. Thanks also to ClubFloyd.
  • Release 3 notes
  • Added several Last Lousy Points, 300+ nudges for right and wrong guesses, bug fixes (especially in M), and more organized random text.
  • Removed needless spoiler disambiguation
  • Two devices were also collapsed into one, which you could switch
  • Author's Trizbort map

Release 4 Plans

Date: Date unknown

• Object-based hinting
• More random talking

Related games

• Part of "Stale Tales Slate":
  • Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz; 2012; Inform 7; Glulx).
  • A Roiling Original (Andrew Schultz; 2013; Inform 7; Glulx).

Links

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

General info

• Shuffling Around - at IFDB.
• Shuffling Around - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

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Date: 30 September 2012

Date: Date unknown

Date: 2014

Date: Date unknown