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IFDB site news November 19, 2024 Estimated play time votes are now publicly attributed to you: When we first launched the new estimated play time feature, each player's votes for a time were private and anonymous. But we have improvements planned that won't work well with anonymity, so we've decided to change our approach and to publicly attribute time votes to the player who posts them, just like reviews and ratings. Here's how the transition will work. All 373 existing time votes are temporarily marked "Anonymous." All new time votes will link to the user who posted them, like this: "8h30m — Dan Fabulich" We've emailed all 34 users who have submitted time votes, asking their permission to link their votes to their user name. (The email includes a list of your existing time votes.) Check your spam folder or email us at [email protected] if you haven't gotten an email from us but you think you should have gotten one. If you decide that you're not comfortable linking your time votes to your user name, we'll delete your time votes from IFDB. (You'll still have your private copy in email, so you can always repost them at any time, but, if you do, the time votes will be publicly attributable to you.) After 30 days, on or around December 19, we'll delete any time votes from users who haven't granted us permission to link them publicly. After December 19, all existing time votes will be publicly attributed to the user who posted them. If you have questions, please reach out to us at [email protected].

OtisTDog reviews Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone: "Dreamlike quest to restore a golden age" November 21, 2024 "The intriguing title and premise of Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone seem to draw a fair amount of interest (with over 50 people having..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe: "A tell-tale art" November 21, 2024 "Last night my wife and I had one of our all-too-infrequent dates (we’re parents of a toddler, the struggle is real), and I made the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Deliquescence: "Falling to pieces" November 21, 2024 "Deliquescence is an emotionally charged game presenting one of the most painful experiences possible – being with someone you love in..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews House of Wolves: "A thin carpaccio" November 21, 2024 "The thing about metaphors is, they can’t be too metaphorical. Similes are anchored by that “like”, they can do anything they want:..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Jackson, Favoritos November 20, 2024 1 item Lista pessoal.

A new review of A Serviço de Ganga Zumba - From the Author "Narrativa bem envolvente!"

manonamora reviews I need to let it out: "Dealing with feelings." November 20, 2024 "I need to let it out is a collection of text files containing thoughts and feelings that Clare doesn’t dare say out loud, even though..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Productivity2000: "Crazy rules and micro-management" November 20, 2024 "Productivity2000 is a time management interactive games, where you must fill-in a time-sheet in Sheets with tasks completed during the..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The Swormville Sweep: "Digital Treasure Hunt" November 20, 2024 "The Swormville Sweep is a treasure hunt puzzle made in GoogleMyMaps, set in the village of Swormville, USA. The map has 15~ pre-selected..." - See full review

A new listing for The Curious Four go to Black Devil Reef, by Jon Bardi (as Cayenne Pepper Design) November 20, 2024 Scott Macarthur - a health and safety inspector from Cumbria - has been sent to Kirrin Village to oversee some construction work on Kirrin Island. Scott's Aunt Fanny has kindly invited him and his friends...

Mike Russo reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "Rubber soul" November 20, 2024 "Early on in LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (hereinafter “Sextuple L”, per the subtitle – yes, I know that’s only five, I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Doctor Who and the Dalek Super-Brain: "Time Lordin'" November 20, 2024 "As my review of Dream of Silence indicates, I’m maybe not especially good at evaluating fan-fiction riffing on stuff I lack much direct..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Garbage of the Future: "Clogged pipes" November 20, 2024 "There are certain kinds of criticism that, while well-intentioned, nevertheless always bug me, and high on that list is..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Standoff: "A rule set for a TTRPG" November 19, 2024 "This is a pdf that gives the rules for a collaborative storytelling game. The basic idea is that you need an antagonist who ultimately..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Last-Minute Magic: "Optimization with a combinatorial explosion of tools" November 19, 2024 "I like this game, and I've played it more than any other Ectocomp game, but it's designed in a way that fully exploring it is very..." - See full review

manonamora reviews notes on the disappearance of a sister: "When justice fails..." November 19, 2024 "notes on the disappearance of a sister is an investigative interactive piece, where a young woman created a board to keep track of..." - See full review

A new listing for Arctic Adventure, by The Ventureweaver November 19, 2024 In the heart of the unforgiving Arctic wilderness lies an abandoned research station cloaked in mystery and surrounded by an endless expanse of ice and snow. You are an explorer tasked with uncovering the...

manonamora reviews Love and Java: "Atmospheric" November 19, 2024 "Love and Java is a short branching choice-based piece made in pure HTML and CSS. With its 9 different endings, it paints a picture of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Traffic: "Grinding gears" November 19, 2024 "Fittingly for a game that’s structured as a series of repeating time loops, I am getting déjà vu writing this review, because I’m..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Death in Hyperspace: "A whole lot of cooks" November 19, 2024 "I often like IF collaborations quite a lot – Cragne Manor ranks quite high on my all-time favorites list – but they often present a..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Final Call: "Mike check" November 19, 2024 "Mike, as I’m sure you’re aware, is a very common name in the U.S., so much so that in my elementary school class of 25, I was one of..." - See full review

manonamora reviews CurseOfTheManor.xls: "Fun parser puzzle in Excel!" November 18, 2024 "CurseOfTheManor.xls is a sparse parser escape puzzle created in Microsoft Excel. The manor you are currently in is cursed, stopping you..." - See full review

manonamora reviews :-O _(._.)_ INTERRED _(._.)_ :-Q: "Parser made with emoticons" November 18, 2024 ":-O (..)_ INTERRED (..)_ :-Q is a short parser-like escape puzzle, coded in emoticons. Waking up in a bedroom, you feel the urge to leave..." - See full review

manonamora reviews a conversation with a concerned cow: "but also a mindful cow" November 18, 2024 "a conversation with a concerned cow is a short conversation with, like the title says, a concerned cow. They've been feeling down for a..." - See full review

manonamora reviews Mad, Sad, Glad: "Feedback hell" November 18, 2024 "Mad, Sad, Glad is a snapshot of a corporate workshop following the end of a project. Inside the Miro page, participants could express..." - See full review

A new listing for Mimeografika, by amberMechanic November 18, 2024 You are Eloise Genium, a robot just arrived on Twin Earth. You touch down in its capital: Luxopolis. Your arch-enemy, Artemis, is set to arrive here soon, bringing chaos and destruction in her wake. The...

manonamora reviews Bakery management challenge: "A planning prototype" November 18, 2024 "Bakery management challenge is a cooking/management sim made in GoogleSheets, where the goal is to make and sell as many good in a..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews No More: "Short one-room gothic parser game" November 18, 2024 "I helped test this game. This is a brief one-room parser game with a well-written atmosphere. You are in a carriage with your father who..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Turn Right: "Makes walking look good" November 18, 2024 "It’s been well said that America and the U.K. are two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean, but interestingly, you could make the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Curse: "More (or possibly less) meta than it appears" November 18, 2024 "(Spoilers ahoy; this is one to play blind, I think, and it may be worth trying even if the old-school presentation might initially put..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews KING OF XANADU: "Reign and ruin" November 18, 2024 "(Another review with unmarked spoilers here, due to the brevity of the piece and the centrality of the way the plot develops to assessing..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Die Another Day: "A short game where every day ends in your death" November 17, 2024 "This game is a lovely metaphor for many things in life. In this game, you die every single day, and it's very inconvenient. You have to..." - See full review

kaemi reviews your life, and nothing else: "Ectocomp 2024: your life, and nothing else" November 17, 2024 "They ought to enpipe a dizzyknotted sewerslide system in all apartments so you can slip out into the nothing as no one, which is all you..." - See full review

Kinky.Sub reviews Gassy Encounters (1.2): "Sooo hot" November 17, 2024 "This game is super fucking hot, can’t wait for more updates to this debauchery"

A new listing for Woodland Terror, by Helen Seymour and John Hudson November 17, 2024 Many ages ago an intrepid adventurer journeyed into the enchanted Firienwood on a quest to find the Golden Bird Of Paradise. After many trials our hero succeeded, but he also released from a lamp an evil...

A new listing for Firienwood, by Helen Seymour and John Hudson November 17, 2024 Travel to a land of magic and monsters in this absorbing adventure game. Explore caverns and forest as you search for the Golden Bird Of Paradise. Few people survive to tell the tale so you will need all...

MathBrush reviews You promise: "Short game about speaking carefully to supernatural creatures" November 17, 2024 "This was a clever game. I was nervous at first at how much text per page there was, so I clicked random links without reading to see how..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Why Pout?: "Whirr Dethisgotawayfromme" November 17, 2024 "It feels like every Comp and/or Spring Thing, Andrew Schultz enters a big, robustly-implemented wordplay game bursting with bonus points,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Dream Of Silence: Act 3: "Sneaking out" November 17, 2024 "As a straight white dude, for good or ill I very rarely find myself second-guessing my opinions too intensively. I mean, I like to think..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Quest for the Teacup of Minor Sentimental Value: "Quite the cuppa" November 17, 2024 "The parodic sendup of CRPG tropes is such a hoary old subgenre that I think I’ve already written two or three different intros..." - See full review

A new listing for The Coral Labyrinth, by Coral Nulla November 16, 2024 Lost in a strange, enclosed world, you explore a series of interconnected rooms and get to know its inhabitants and secrets. Is there a way out? Will you even want to find it? What can you learn from the...

MathBrush reviews An Admirer: "Freeform parser conversation game made in 4 hours" November 16, 2024 "Making a conversation-based parser game in 4 hours is dicey, but can be rewarding. I made Halloween Dance in 4 hours, an ectocomp..." - See full review

A new listing for Mystery House: Occluded Vengeance, by Guy Minor November 16, 2024 In Mystery House: Occluded Vengeance, author Guy Minor molds an anonymously written Renaissance revenge tragedy around a skeletal plot rich with possibilities for murder and mayhem, supplying background and...

A new listing for Mystery House Nightmared, by Art Destroyer November 16, 2024 The physically-impossible illegitimate love-child of Picasso, Adobe and Mondrian. On drugs. On the road. Going 400 miles per hour. Optical nerves, beware.

A new listing for Temple Of The Sun, by The Ventureweaver November 16, 2024 Embark on an Epic Journey in the Temple of the Sun! Uncover the mysteries of a lost civilization in this immersive 1980s-style text adventure! Deep in the heart of a treacherous jungle lies the Temple of the...

MathBrush reviews do not let your left hand know: "Short, well-written dual identity game with a major choice at the end" November 16, 2024 "This is a twine game with visual novel-style controls. The game focuses more on story than branching, with one very important choice at..." - See full review

OtisTDog reviews Balances: "An example both positive and negative" November 16, 2024 "Balances is labeled as a demo for Inform 6 (originally developed for Inform 5), and was distributed as such along with its source code..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Ghost Hunt: "Short Adventuron game about recapturing familial ghosts" November 16, 2024 "This was a pleasant, compact Adventuron game. It had a feature I'm not used to seeing, where right-clicking on yellow words brought up..." - See full review

Tabitha reviews Familiar Problems: "But not too familiar!" November 16, 2024 "I playtested this game and have replayed the published version. I can’t really comment on the difficulty of the puzzles because I..." - See full review

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