Reviews by Denk

This review is for the first completable version, in contrast to the original competition version which could not be completed. Still, it was made during the Iron Chief competition where games are made in a very short time frame. So the version I played (1st of June acc. to the file name) could use a bit more pollish but the puzzles did not really suffer from this.

The player is given the job of cleaning up in several time zones where animals and persons have somehow been displaced in time and space. For that reason you have a special device. I will try not to give anymore spoilers here, except within spoiler tags.

The writing is short but still interesting. Objects you encounter has no use, so simply focus on the task. I was curious to see how the device was going to work in this completable version. This is the sort of game where things are usually a little more complicated than expected which is nice so it wasn't too straight forward. So figuring out exactly how the device works and what can be done with it is the big puzzle. However, it might be that the game can be solved in a bit more boring way, though the author seems to have been preventing that at least partly:

Overall, a very satisfying puzzle game!

This was well written and well done in many ways. I always feel wrong about rating such personal "games" as that would feel like treating it as pure entertainment. It was more educational but also sad to learn about how children may cope with losing a parent. Nor have I a lot to say right now, just want to support the author for doing stuff like this.

I played this freeware 1980 Eamon game on Eamon Remastered (a browser based implementation of Eamon). This game is star wars themed, not really caring about trademarks at the time. This was a very typical Eamon game at the time: Mainly hack'n'slash (using blasters and light sabres) randomized combat, a few simple objectives and with just enough locations to make it challenging to find your way without drawing a map. The difficulty is too easy to be challenging but a nice diversion for relaxation if you love Eamon.

I should only recommend this for those who like plowing through the simpler Eamon games out of curiousity. EDIT: I do, so thank you to Keith Dechant for adding it to Eamon Remastered :)

This is a fairly short but well done classic text adventure fitted into the memory of a Commodore 64 / emulator. I played the "play online"-version and except for the initial load and when saving/loading your progress, the responses were almost instant.

• The story is simple but fine enough for this type of "classic" text adventure: Go figure out what the latin test will be about, then copy the necessary text from the text book somewhere in the school. Along you will need to solve several puzzles.
• Of course, some games back in the days had better stories which would have improved this game some. Also, there are several latin phrases but I never learned latin so for me that was kind of wasted, though I could of course had translated it online if I bothered. But it was good enough as it was.

• At times the game was too helpful as opening an item or door often simply required e.g. OPEN DOOR when holding the right item, rather than specifying with the INSERT command. Speaking of commands, all verbs are given when typing COMMANDS so technically, this is a "limited parser"-game so no fighting the parser luckily!

  So despite the game being too easy, this was a charming little nostalgic piece :)

This is an EctoComp game from 2011 when EctoComp only had the 3-hour category, thus making it speed-if. Having played a few games by this author, it seems he likes to let the player be creative. In this game you can name your own monsters and then give them various powers by combining several objects before they are unleashed onto the world in absurd, humorous (in most cases) ways.
This game is not revolutionary but still original enough to be entertaining. However, you seem to be able to go on forever, so it seems the game has no ending. EDIT: According to Mathbrush's review, the game can end. (Spoiler - click to show)And you can choose to be either cruel or life giving [sorry, a small hint there].
I only noticed one bug: Please do NOT get all, but instead get one object at a time, otherwise the game is not aware what you are holding. Another minor critique: This game is humorous and absurd and in most cases fun. However, one type of death seemed a bit too realistic to be fun, but I won't hold that against it as that is always a risk when creating comedy horror.

I played this with Parchment using the "play online"-button on IFDB. This game is from EctoComp 2009 when only Adrift games were entered. The story is entertaining and worth playing, even though it is clearly speed-if meaning that the parser is not very good. (Spoiler - click to show)Sometimes you are told there are no exits but keep trying the cardinal directions anyway.
The parser is very literal. If the text subtly proposes a non-standard command, you should probably try it. However, except for my hidden spoiler text above, I had no serious problems with this small game.
So I recommend it if you like horror with a humorous twist despite the quirks.

Playing "Portrait with Wolf" reminded me slightly of this game and I realised I never reviewed it. So I played it again. It plays well with the online button on IFDB.

It is not a normal parser game. Instead you are answering the questions you are given. Sometimes it is a yes/no question, other times the game is asking for a colour, an adjective, a verb etc. It is not always clear what you are asked about as the game text sometimes come in a confusing order but that is all part of the fun I think.

It is sort of arty but with humour. A nice little diversion.

I found this interesting and I interpret this game as horror / science fiction but I am not fully certain about my interpretation.

This game was written with Adrift 5 and the author had obviously very little experience with this tool. It is not programmed very well but the game is so "easy" that it may not hinder your progress.

In case it does, here is a brief walkthrough:
(note that in Frankendrift you may have to click on the input field before you can hit space which makes the game progress)

I rate this game as a very short game where the bugs do not play a big role as I was able to guess the necessary commands anyway. The bugs may even add to the confusion felt by the player character.

I am very curious about other people's interpretation of this game. For now I will leave my theories out but I would love to hear other people's opinions.

In this Quest game you are trapped in a room, remembering a few spell names. You have to escape somehow. This game has a lot of good stuff going for it. The idea of limiting the commands to the spells is fine, except some other commands are needed as well and you have to guess which commands, making it a fight with the parser. For instance, it is not clear if you can use put, insert, but get, open and examine seems to work sometimes.

The game also appears buggy as you can find an object several times etc.

With some beta-testers, I think this can end up being a really nice game. For now, I gave up on completing it as I never knew if the game became unwinnable due to the obvious bugs. So I encourage the author to get some testers, polish this game some more and announce it when it is ready.

Thanks to Tabitha's poll on games with few ratings, I gave this short game a try. I haven't played many games about vampires but such games seem to be quite popular now, especially what could be called symbolic vampires: People who suck energy from others. This game still stays on the supernatural path, though it may all be intended as symbolic in the end anyway.

The graphics and sounds add positively to the game. Certainly interesting.