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MathBrush reviews Steal 10 Treasures to Win This Game: "A 'one letter' parser game with some tricky puzzles" July 14, 2023 "This game was kind of a rollercoaster experience for me. I started it up, and it looked like a simple tutorial adventure, like a TALJ..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King: "I'M NOT SCREAMING, YOU'RE SCREAMING" July 14, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/15/23 Playtime: 30min, 6/10 tracked endings plus 1 untracked I’ve been down this path..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Marie Waits: "Stirred, not Shaken" July 14, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/15/23 Playtime: 1.25hr, die twice, then win At this point, I think we sometimes agree to..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Repeat the Ending: "I'm Not Worthy" July 14, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/17/23 Playtime: 4.25hrs score 23/33 I, ah, wow. Boy do I owe my randomizer an apology...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Fortuna: "AI-generated plot with ai-powered characters and AI art" July 13, 2023 "This game combines a parser of its own with some AI-generated responses. The ai-generated text is fairly distinctive, with a very..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Roads not Taken: "You Can't Get There From Here" July 13, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/16/23 Playtime: 30min, 3 cycles This one was an interesting experiment: implementing a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Mamertine: "Cain't Touch This" July 13, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/18/23 Playtime: 45min, died same way 4 times, caught in same apparently unwinnable state 4..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Mirror: "Mirror Mirror on the GHOUL" July 13, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/18/23 Playtime: 30 min, all 4 An IF anthology! I LOVE that idea! (Notwithstanding from a..." - See full review

Drew Cook reviews Wishbringer: "Everybody Loves Wishbringer" July 12, 2023 "That isn't true, of course. There is no such thing that "everybody" loves, unless it is a good night's sleep. Still, Wishbringer is..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Write or Reflect?: "To Perl, or Not To Perl" July 12, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/18/23 Playtime: 50min, finished Man do I love how omnivorous this author is in subject..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Stygian Dreams: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Greek?" July 12, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/19/23 Playtime: 45min, finished Maybe I should have done some preview reading at the start..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Secret of the Black Walrus: "Purple Prose, No Prejoratives Please" July 12, 2023 "Adapted from a SpringThing23 Review Played: 4/19/23 Playtime: 25min A lifetime ago, I began my fascination with the pulp magazines of the..." - See full review

Max Fog reviews Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz: "I dunno about your reviews - I like it" July 12, 2023 "Look, I get what you guys have said - but seriously, the game is not that bad (personally, at least). Puzzles are very Meretzky-style:..." - See full review

A new listing for Cytotoxicity, Errant Stigma, Dispersal Method Resulting in Necrosis of Host, by Henry Cecchini

IFDB site news July 11, 2023 Security Updates: In a recent update to IFDB, we’ve added a Content Security Policy, designed to provide broad defenses against XSS attacks. https://github.com/iftechfoundation/ifdb/pull/242 The change required updates to almost every part of IFDB, and so it wouldn’t be totally shocking if we broke something while rolling it out. If you see a new issue, we invite you to reply on the intfiction.org forum, or to file a bug in our suggestion tracker at https://github.com/iftechfoundation/ifdb-suggestion-tracker/issues.

Andrew Schultz reviews Cheree: Remembering My Murder: "Help a 100-/16-year-old spirit find peace and closure" July 11, 2023 "Cheree: Remembering My Murder is definitely something I want to give a boost to during ParserComp. It's got AI-based dialogue, and the..." - See full review

infinityto1 reviews A Long Way to the Nearest Star: "I'm biased but..." July 11, 2023 "This is such a gorgeous little game. I have a soft spot for AI characters, and Solis' sarcastic and wistful personality captivated me...." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Drew Cook, Works Consulted July 11, 2023 19 items I've decided to make a list of games that have influenced my writing, whether it be criticism or game development. I'll be adding to this over time. Comments and questions are welcome! There is no particular...

MathBrush reviews Bug Hunt On Menelaus: "Short and sweet ADRIFT game about hunting bugs" July 10, 2023 "This is a fairly short ADRIFT game in which you command six different soldiers, switching between their viewpoints to find aliens to..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Steal 10 Treasures to Win This Game: "Don't be fooled by the title. This has a lot new to show you!" July 10, 2023 "Self-aware games about looting castles and adventuring for its own sake and such are relatively common and generally do pretty well...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Murder Most Foul: "Epically long murder mystery adventure in Adrift" July 10, 2023 "Phew! This was a long game. I took a break from playing the other parsercomp games for 4 days to finish playing this one; and that was..." - See full review

Wade Clarke reviews Castle Dracula: "A zombie and a hunchback walk into a plank. Neither is harmed." July 9, 2023 "I played a Commodore 64 version of Castle Dracula. The original BASIC game was published in CLOAD magazine, later distributed..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Denk, Older Frankendrift compatible games July 8, 2023 16 items Frankendrift was first published in 2021, which made Adrift 5 games playable on Mac and Linux and provides a lighter Runner for Windows as well, though without sound so far. So older Adrift 5 games may have...

kaemi reviews The Purple Pearl: "ParserComp 2023: The Purple Pearl" July 8, 2023 "One trend in IF over the past several years has been a resurgent interest in two player games, starting with The Last Night in..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews (almost eleven): "We've all had relationships like this. Why can't we learn quicker?" July 8, 2023 "Works that mention certain things almost always invoke certain reactions in me. In this case, it’s a relationship that went on too..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Palazzo Heist: "The first part is entering safely!" July 8, 2023 "Some games in the Neo Twiny Jam seemed like they might have had to leave something out due to the word count, and the authors did a good..." - See full review

A new listing for Gender Exchange, by David Nguyen

A new listing for Final Girl 2.0, by Hanon Ondricek

A new listing for Mission Unknown, by Carl Muckenhoupt

A new competition page: IntroComp 2021 created July 7, 2023

A new listing for Resist!, by Damon L. Wakes

A new listing for Shanidar, Safe Return, by Cecilia Dougherty

A new listing for Summer of Love, by ThatWheelchairChick

A new Recommended List by Ms. Woods, Pick Up Again July 7, 2023 1 item To be picked up again. Games paused, dropped, or put on hold.

A new Recommended List by Ms. Woods, TBR July 7, 2023 2 items To be replayed.

Andrew Schultz reviews Dreamscape CYOA: "Well, I'd take any one of DCYOA's gifts, really" July 6, 2023 "Looking at the relative popularity of items in the jam, this one slid way behind the other's work, Eviscerate This Girl. DCYOA seems a..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews piele: "It's not in English, at first!" July 6, 2023 "Piele is a work that probably isn't intended to make sense the first time through, but it was rewarding to make sense out of and figure..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Jacob's Body: "Upliftingly macabre" July 6, 2023 "It's always good to see IFComp authors pop up somewhere else. Whether these people are publishing books or just clocking thousands of rep..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews alias: "Drive-by harassment, high fantasy value, low ick quotiient" July 6, 2023 "This is a short story that takes an idiom and turns it on its head effectively. That idiom is "may I have your name," except, well,..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Curse of the Bat's Tomb: "Small well-constructed adventure with a bit of horror" July 6, 2023 "Neo Twiny Jam had a surprisingly large (to me) ratio of fantasy-quest games by authors, all of whom really seemed to know what they were..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Please Don't Take This The Wrong Way: "A neat twisting of a potentially manipulative phrase" July 6, 2023 ""Please don't take this the wrong way" can be said at least two ways: from a position of power, or not. It can act as a pre-emptive..." - See full review

A new Recommended List by Ms. Woods, Personal Favorites July 6, 2023 3 items

A new listing for The Assassination of Zurik Greybush, by Scott Angeloni

MathBrush reviews The Purple Pearl: "Two-player parser puzzler" July 5, 2023 "I didn't play this game in the intended way (just opened two windows and played both). I've played 3 or 4 two-player IF games in the last..." - See full review

A new listing for Relics 3:Ashes for Gold, by James Shaw

A new listing for Seven's Deadly, by EJA

A new listing for Nemo's Fury, by Chris Hunneysett

Andrew Schultz reviews One-Word Warlock: "The title has a *most* inapt acronym" July 5, 2023 "So I'm the sort of person predisposed to like this author's sense of humor, kicking well-worn tropes when they're down in a sophisticated..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews the ride home: "A rite of passage that shouldn't be stressful but is" July 5, 2023 "This one, I thought I'd written a review for during the jam! It was one I connected with, but it felt almost silly to write, or to..." - See full review

Andrew Schultz reviews Listen to the Phone Ring: "Play the predecessor and it's very neat indeed" July 5, 2023 "On its own, this is just a choice between whom to call, without a lot of data You have a conversation, then hang up. But paired together..." - See full review

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