Things
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| Things | |
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| Published | 10 April 2004 |
| Credits | |
| Authors | Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott |
| Reception | |
| Events | |
| IFDB rating | 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Parser |
| Location |  One-room |
| Language | English |
| Cruelty scale | Merciful |
| IFDB play time | 10 minutes |
| Accessibility | Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none. |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | TADS 2 |
| Format | TADS 2 |
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How it begins
You might be anyone, carrying a locking / unlocking thing and manual insulating things. You are tired from walking through the pretty encompassing mountainous things, and want to get inside the nearby rustic structural thing to rest.
Notable features
- Wordplay: Tries to use as few nouns as possible—mostly just "thing"—in its text messages.
Trivia and Comments
- Have a dictionary handy to look up what some of the more obscure adjectives mean.
Versions
Speed-IF Version
Date: 10 April 2004
- Things (Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline Lott; 10-Apr-2004; TADS 2).
- Speed-IF >= 20 entry.
- Download thing.gam from AllThingsJacq.
- Download SpeedIF_GE_20.zip from the IF Archive - all games from Speed-IF >= 20.
Links
N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.
- Things homepage at AllThingsJacq.com.
- Things (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
Spoilers
- Walkthrough and map by David Welbourn.
- ClubFloyd transcript (January 11, 2009).
- ClubFloyd transcript (December 11, 2011).
Date: 10 April 2004