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Mike Russo reviews VESPERTINE: "Goncharov montage" November 10, 2024 "It’s appropriate that VESPERTINE comes from the Goncharov jam, since more so than the classic techniques of interactive fiction the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Naughty in the library: "Boobs and books" November 10, 2024 "(I wrote two reviews for this one, here are both) Naughty in the Library, like its companion piece Hot in the Office, is largely an..." - See full review

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 New this week: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. Estimated Play Time (now searchable!) JSON APIs Removed Clubs

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 Estimated Play Time (now searchable!): You can now use the "Estimated Play Time" form on any game to submit a "vote" for how long it takes to finish the game. Vote only if you've played the game. Vote on how long it would take to get to one final ending without hints or a walkthrough. Time spent away from the game doesn't count. Times don't need to be exact. Good-faith estimates are fine. We'll display the median time vote near the top of that game's page. (EDIT: Nov 15) You can also search for games by play time using the new playtime: search filter. For example, here's a list of games that have an estimated play time of six hours or more. playtime:minimum-maximum lists games with an estimated play time in the given range. After each number, use h for hours or m for minutes. For example, playtime:2h15m-3h shows games with an estimated play time of anywhere from 2 hours and 15 minutes to 3 hours. Hours may include decimals (for example, 3.5h). playtime:1.5h- lists games with an estimated play time of at least 1 and a half hours. playtime:-45m lists games with an estimated play time of 45 minutes or less. playtime:1h searches for games with an estimated play time of 1 hour. playtime: with no text after it searches for games with no estimated play time. This feature is very, very new. We've got a lot of ideas for improvements, and we've got a public discussion going on the intfiction.org forum.

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 JSON APIs: Most of our IFDB API endpoints now support JSON. You can search for games and get JSON results You can view an individual game and get JSON results (now including tags and complete, unstripped HTML!) You can tag games by posting a JSON array of tags All of the old APIs still work in XML mode, but JSON is the preferred format for all new code. (The API to add/edit games is still XML-only, for now.) In addition, we deprecated the gametags API. You can view tags on an individual game with the viewgame API, or view your own tags with the search API, like this: https://ifdb.org/search?json&tag&searchfor=tuid:xxx+mine:yes

IFDB site news November 9, 2024 Removed Clubs: The IFDB "clubs" feature has been removed. Nobody was using the feature, partly because clubs didn't do very much.

MathBrush reviews Dark Waters on the Night Shift: "Deal with spirits in a waste treatment plant" November 9, 2024 "This is a puzzle-centered choice-based game about an operative at a water treatment plant who receives a haunting visit on Halloween...." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb: "A dark, werewolf-themed entry in the Little Match Girl series " November 9, 2024 "The Little Match Girl series consists of games where a time-travelling assassin girl adopted by Ebenezer Scrooge enters various worlds..." - See full review

A new competition page: Gothic Horror Jam #2 created November 9, 2024 Step into the shadows and embrace the eerie atmosphere of our Gothic Horror theme. From crumbling castles to fog-shrouded streets, this game jam invites you to explore the darker realms of storytelling and...

A new listing for Siege of Amal, by Xenogate

Cerfeuil reviews The Parallax Tomb: "Unfinished game with a very cool Twine interface" November 9, 2024 "Don't remember how I got this in my bookmarks. Maybe Twitter. Anyway, this can barely be called a game, since it's unfinished. There's..." - See full review

A new listing for The Parallax Tomb, by Carter Lovelace

Cerfeuil reviews Terminal 00: "Weird website with an incomprehensible storyline" November 9, 2024 "This game had a cult following at some point, which is how I heard about it. Nowadays the subreddit is pretty dead. I blame this on the..." - See full review

A new listing for Terminal 00, by Angus Edandrake Nicneven

Cerfeuil reviews goodbye.monster: "Wander a strange world until its novelty wears out" November 9, 2024 " When the world ended, life became an unpleasant costume. You have only ever wanted to gift it to something else, but it is not so easy... " - See full review

A new listing for goodbye.monster, by Eugene An, Rook Liu, Beckett Rowan, Matt Wang

Cerfeuil reviews A Better World: "Alternate history game that's more silly than factually accurate" November 9, 2024 "Here's another game I found online at random and thought would be a good fit for this site. It takes the form of a timeline, where you..." - See full review

A new listing for A Better World, by FibreTigre

Mike Russo reviews Teatime with a Vampire: "Bad romance" November 9, 2024 "Nosferatu’s Count Orlok is one of the all-time greats of vampire cinema. His background and agenda don’t really stand out, inasmuch..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews A Collegial Conversation: "Rashemon but with a sewer administrator" November 9, 2024 "I don’t think we’ve seen a SeedComp game yet in the thon, so this is a nice surprise now that we’re getting close to wrapping up...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Halfling Dale: "Taste of the Shire" November 9, 2024 "(No rating entered since I only played the free Chapter One) Look, I get it: if you asked me what fictional world I’d want to live in,..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Mordon's Quest: "The Dictionary Definition Of Puzzlefest" November 8, 2024 "Mordon's Quest from Australian developers Melbourne House was co-written by John Jones-Steele of Level 9 authorship fame in 1985. I won't..." - See full review

Cerfeuil reviews 31 Days to HYPSMC: "Can you make it to the Ivy Leagues without a mental breakdown?" November 8, 2024 "This game is vaguely reminiscent of two other games I've played recently, Pageant and PhD Simulator. All three are simulation games with..." - See full review

A new listing for 31 Days to HYPSMC, by Anonymous

Mike Russo reviews constellate: "Fallen star" November 8, 2024 "It may be that there are other games that I’ve started up, squinted painfully at the text, and then thanked heavens – and then the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews It can't be true it mustn't be true: "Not yet the end" November 8, 2024 "And so we come to the end of the RGB trilogy [later edit: per feedback from the author, no we don’t! There are still two to come...." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME: "We have to go back" November 8, 2024 "We’re doing this again, I say to myself – you can read that in an excited tone of voice, representing my combined eagerness and dread..." - See full review

A new listing for Ohio Valley RPG, by Kevin Flick

MathBrush reviews A House of Endless Windows: "A haunting short story about family" November 7, 2024 "This is a visual novel with excellent background images and ambient music, and which has no interactions other than clicking 'next'. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Hotel Halloween: "An anthology of speed-written horror games set in a hotel" November 7, 2024 "This is by the same group that has done the Seneca Thing for the last two Spring Things. This is a collection of students that write..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Lucifugus: "A game exploring a mansion; twine game with inventory and world model" November 7, 2024 "I liked the way the ending of this game was handled. You play as someone in the basement of an old house who must do everything they can..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews La Dama Blanca del Hotel Arizon: "Well-made creepy bitsy game" November 7, 2024 "This is a well-made Bitsy game about a creepy hotel. Bitsy is a minimalist text and pixel art animation game engine. Here, the author has..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cycle: "Strange loops" November 7, 2024 "I don’t know if I’m especially atypical in this, but every once in a while I notice how there are certain allegedly-universal..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Renegade Brainwave: "Wood-an prose" November 7, 2024 "Having just written a long review taking a game to task for its toothless satire, I come now to Renegade Brainwave, which finally has the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Cubes and Ladders: "Pencil in the satire for 2:30 Thursday" November 7, 2024 "Satire is a tricky beast. Oh, I get the allure – it’s a writer’s dream to cut the Emperor down to size with razor-sharp, Swiftian..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Like a Sky Full of Locusts: "Shoot demons a lot" November 6, 2024 "This game is set in the world of Castle Balderstone, but is a standalone entry as opposed to the large anthologies usually found with..." - See full review

A new listing for Mona Mourn, by Capsaylt

A new listing for Cyberpunk 1977, by Atozi

Marius Müller reviews Wasser-Hasser: "Charming" November 6, 2024 "A cute little rhymed game, which doesn't overstay its welcome. Gimmicky, but I had fun."

MathBrush reviews Un treno come tanti: "At atmospheric Italian horror game set on a train" November 6, 2024 "For a few years I've maintained an IFDB list for surreal games set on trains, which has turned out to be a surprisingly common genre:..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Read This When You Turn 15: "Letters from Neo(-Twiny Jam)" November 6, 2024 "I have now played a number of Neo-Twiny Jam entries (yes, saying “a number” rather than going back to check is lazy, but look, I’ve..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Romance the Backrooms: "A peek behind the curtain" November 6, 2024 "(I haven't given this a star rating since since currently only the demo is available) There are a lot of ways the contemporary video game..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS: "Confessional confessions" November 6, 2024 "The first thing I wrote in my notes for this game was that the presentation is really nice; it looks like a book or (better) screenplay,..." - See full review

A new listing for Covenant Quest, by Brian Samuel

Jacic reviews Highlands, Deep Waters: "Trouble in the Scottish Highlands" November 5, 2024 "This game has a clear lovecraftian influence (particularly Call of Cthulhu but with an original setting in a small fictional town in..." - See full review

manonamora reviews The campfire is the beggining: "A Google Slide interactive mini adventure" November 5, 2024 "The campfire is the beggining is a short branching story, where you find yourself before a campfire, with no recollection of where you..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews NYX: "In the ocean of night" November 5, 2024 "I count at least two layers of metatextual irony in Nyx’s second sentence: "Scientists, soldiers, pilots, people of few words — why..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Suspended in the air so that all of your weight is concentrated on a single point halfway down your spine: "What a predicament" November 5, 2024 "Geez, ^ spoiler alert. We have here the second part in the RGB trilogy – and while it’s recognizably of a piece with He Knows That..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews How Dare You: "Stuck in a moment you can't get out of" November 5, 2024 "After a long stretch of the randomizer doing a shockingly good job of ensuring I play games in the proper order (beyond correctly..." - See full review

manonamora reviews yet another planning doc: "Gossips, secrets, and a weekly party" November 4, 2024 "yet another planning doc is a multi-medium epistolary/chat interactive story, centred around three students, from Passerine Hills..." - See full review

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