Archive for November, 2011

IFComp 2011: Three More Reviews (Calm, PataNoir, and The Myothian Falcon)

A wave of family illness that crested last week pretty much ensured I would not be able to complete playing and reviewing all the games in time for the end of the Comp.  So I apologize to those authors whose games I could not complete in time.  I tried my best, but I just wasn’t able to get through them all.

That said, I did manage to play three additional games to round out the Comp for me:

The Myothian Falcon — Andy Joel
Calm — Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
PataNoir — Simon Christiansen

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Three More Short Reviews (Keepsake, Death of Schlig, Vestiges)

As I continue to clear out my backlog of games played, here are three more short reviews:

  1. Keepsake, by Savaric
  2. Death of Schlig, by Peter Timony, and
  3. Vestiges, by Josephine Wynter

Spoilers follow!

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IFComp 2011: Four More Scores (The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, Cana According to Micah, Fan Interference, Last Day of Summer)

More play and shorter reviews seems to been working out so far, I’m getting through quite a few more games.  We’ve got quite a variety up this time:

  1. The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by “Edmund Wells” (I know this is a pseudonym from discussions on intfiction.org — it’s apparently the name of an author from a Monty Python sketch)
  2. Cana According to Micah, by the “Rev. Stephen Dawson” (This one is pretty up front about being a pseudonym within the game)
  3. Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz
  4. Last Day of Summer, by Cameron Fox

So let’s get to it!  Spoilers follow…

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IFComp 2011: 3 More Reviews (Fog Convict, How Suzy Got Her Powers, The Ship of Whimsy)

Three more games up today:  Fog Convict, by “Arman”, or Andrew Metzger; How Suzy Got Her Powers, by David Whyld, and The Ship of Whimsy, by U. N. Owen.  Without further ado, let’s check them out:

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IFComp 2011: Four Games (Six, Andromeda Awakening, Tenth Plague, The Hours)

Unfortunately, due to a number of other activities, I’m running out of time in the Comp and I’m way short on games played. I’m going to move to shorter reviews in the hope of focusing the time I have on playing rather than writing. After the Comp is over I hope to revisit some of the more interesting titles and expand on them.

So here are shorter reviews of 4 games: Six, by Wade Clarke; Andromeda Awakening, by Marco Innocenti; Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally; and The Hours, by Robert Patten.  Spoilers abound.

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