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EJ reviews Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?: "Who Iced Mayor McFreeze review" December 20, 2023 "I wasn’t the biggest fan of Bubble Gumshoe’s first outing, Who Killed Gum E. Bear; it hinges entirely on noticing a single aspect of..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Kaboom: "A haunting non-allegory" December 20, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). While I’ve generally read far..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Have Orb, Will Travel: "Sub orb-ital" December 20, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I’m not generally one for..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "Ambitious sequel to Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game" December 19, 2023 "(Note: this review was based on the mid competition version of the game. Some issues it refers to may have been since ironed out in the..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Dysfluent: "Powerful game about living with a speech impediment" December 19, 2023 "This is a really thought-provoking Twine piece about speech impediments and specifically stuttering. It puts you in the shoes of a..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Dr Ludwig and the Devil: "The feel of a Hammer horror film in comedy parser game form" December 19, 2023 "This is a comedy parser game of a pact with the Devil, written very much in the style of Hammer horror movies of the past. This was..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Assembly: "Saving the world with flat pack furniture" December 19, 2023 "(Note: this review was based on the mid competition version of the game. Some issues it refers to may have been since ironed out in the..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Last Valentine's Day: "Time looping around Valentine's Day" December 19, 2023 "This Twine piece sees you reliving the same Valentine’s Day over and over again, repeating the time you find your partner has left you,..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Bogeyman: "He likes the blue things in the broth..." December 19, 2023 " (A very effective horror Twine. Gruesome, sometimes disgusting on the surface, but the most scary was how it manipulated my mind into..." - See full review

A new listing for Scary Mutant Space Aliens from Mars, by Jorge Freitas, David Knobel

Rovarsson reviews Kaboom: "Cuddly and dark." December 19, 2023 "Snuggling under the covers together. An unsettling dream. Waking up to a changed room. She’s bleeding! You have to save her. KABOOM is..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Honk!: "Of geese and circus-people." December 19, 2023 "The ringmaster’s nerves are in tatters. Along with all the paperwork threatening to overwhelm him (and flood his camper), there’s now..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Last Vestiges: "The room of the murder." December 19, 2023 "(Review based on the IFComp version of the game.) I’ve played gummibears and wizards solving crime, private noir dicks and superheroes..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Finders Commission: "A feisty heist" December 19, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). There are a lot of things I..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Lake Starlight: "Introduction to camp" December 19, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). The girl whose two moms were a..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head: "Daring rescue mission and puppet puzzler combined" December 18, 2023 "(Note: this review was based on the mid competition version of the game. Some issues it refers to may have been since ironed out in the..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews 20 Exchange Place: "Well written but very difficult to win hostage negotiation game written in Ink" December 18, 2023 "This is a tight hostage negotiation choice piece written in Ink. First thoughts are there’s a lot more text than for the estimated 15..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews We All Fall Together: "Atmospheric setting but too little player control over what happens" December 18, 2023 "This Texture piece sees you fall through a long fall, encounter other characters, and reflect on your life. It’s an atmospheric..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews The Sculptor: "Intriguing tale of a sculptor and his work, but too limited in player choice" December 18, 2023 "This is a Texture piece, where you’re an aged sculptor, near the end of life, wanting to craft one last superb sculpture. The story is..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Eat the Eldritch: "A funny sea-based Lovecraftian horror parser game" December 18, 2023 "A parser “horredy” - well that sounds fun! Note I played this offline in Lectrote with my preferred gigantic font. It’s a..." - See full review

News on Transparent: Transparent v8 with browser-capable sound now available via Bisquixe interpreter December 18, 2023 Mathbrush's Bisquixe browser interpreter now enables sound when playing TRANSPARENT online or in the browser. On original release in 2014 in IFComp, Transparent contained an extensive sound and music system... - Details

A new competition page: 2022 XYZZY Awards created December 18, 2023 Best Technological Development:...

Lance Cirone reviews History of the Trumpet: "It's textadventures.co.uk" December 18, 2023 "This game is supposed to teach you about trumpets, but it's so vaguely described that I don't feel like I got anything out of it. You..." - See full review

Lance Cirone reviews Wry: "Man Tries to Sell Insurance to Baroness, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!" December 18, 2023 "I admit to being a bit turned away by the word "erotic" in this game's summary. Thankfully, the other reviews convinced me to give it a..." - See full review

A new listing for Shaka!, by Olaf Nowacki

A new listing for Minimal Game, by Michael Bub

A new listing for Cargo Breach, by Garry Francis

A new listing for Redux, by Shawn Sijnstra

A new listing for THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME, by Marco Innocenti

A new listing for Pharaoh, by Gianluca Girelli

A new competition page: PunyJam #4 created December 18, 2023 This is a jam where you write a text adventure using PunyInform, resulting in games playable in Z-code format. Every PunyJam has a theme. This time: at the start of the game, or within the first five moves,...

Mike Russo reviews Creative Cooking: "Stuck at a low boil" December 18, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I have played a lot of IF over the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews CODENAME OBSCURA: "Floyd I'm ready to be heartbroken" December 18, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). There’s a longstanding tradition..." - See full review

aluminumoxynitride reviews How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title: "Expansive, funny, and full of heart." December 17, 2023 "The game world is huge and full of personality and humor; I loved exploring each and every inch and looking at absolutely everything. The..." - See full review

AgentBLZZRD reviews Violet: "Great Game, Sad Game" December 17, 2023 "This shit is so sad bro I felt genuine fucking grief in this game😭😭"

Rovarsson reviews The Gift of What You Notice More: "Where did it all start?" December 17, 2023 "Your empty suitcase on the bed. Time to pack up and leave. Leave this house, leave this “us”. But you can’t figure out what to pack..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews LAKE Adventure: "A matter of memories." December 17, 2023 "A little boy is sad but hopeful. He’s programming a game about an adventure by the lake behind the house. Maybe it’ll be a bit..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Kaboom: "Moving tale of current events that might have been better as a parser piece" December 17, 2023 "This is a Twine piece, where you play a teddy bear I think (EDIT: correction, no, it’s a toy hare), and have to save your person from a..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates: "Well written interactive retelling of ancient historical characters" December 17, 2023 "Going into this, and apart from it being about Socrates and his wife I’m happily clueless. I did a joint honours classical studies and..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?: "Clever and funny mystery puzzle that needed fuller implementation" December 17, 2023 "Now time for my first parser game of this year’s competition. Starting with a short one, and happy to be back in Sugar City to uncover..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews All Hands: "Unsettling Texture piece set on a mysterious ship" December 17, 2023 "Next up for me, and this Texture piece, a horror/mystery set on the sea, in an unspecified time and place, but my mind imagined almost..." - See full review

Vivienne Dunstan reviews Help! I Can't Find My Glasses!: "Promising relatable interactive story that could be polished further" December 17, 2023 "This is a choice / Choicescript based game where you have lost your glasses and need to figure out who has taken them. This is a scenario..." - See full review

A new listing for Morgen wird Klausur geschrieben, by Lorenz Bulin

Mike Russo reviews Trail Stash: "There's no Spoonerism for "Spoonerism"" December 17, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I've played a lot of Andrew..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Magor Investigates...: "Perhaps too low-key" December 17, 2023 "(This is a lightly-edited version of a review I posted to the IntFiction forums during 2023's IFComp). I have by now played a reasonable..." - See full review

manonamora reviews A Thing of Wretchedness: "Unsatisfying ending(s)" December 16, 2023 "A Thing of Wretchedness is a horror “sandbox” parser, set in an empty farmstead in the middle of winter, away from any life, some..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Smart Theory: "Declaring that there are no new ideas feels simultaneously correct and tedious" December 16, 2023 "Smart Theory encounters a common problem in game design: How do you simulate an unpleasant experience without driving away your audience?..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews Unfortunate: "An ambitious work with implementation issues" December 16, 2023 "I loved the premise of this game — it puts you in a short, repeatable scenario as an accretive PC (something similar was used for The..." - See full review

BitterlyIndifferent reviews The Best Man: "Vivid and uncomfortable" December 16, 2023 "This work was phenomenally well-written, which made it a challenge to enjoy. The Best Man is initially told from the perspective of..." - See full review

A new listing for The Truth, by Robert Landin

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