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The Profile, by Mike Snyder
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A chilling game that becomes an intriguing puzzle, June 30, 2017*
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This game was quite creepy and icky at first, until I realized my true purpose.

This game is a play-and-replay game that was brilliantly coded in 3 hours or less, and provides more gameplay than most Ectocomop speed IF. Recommended. I can't say much more without spoiling it.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A short Voodoo religion-based game for Ectocomp, June 30, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This game was entered in Ectocomp 2013. It has a short sequence based on the Voodoo religion, and includes a fairly clever puzzle.

Because it was a speed-IF, it has a bunch of rough edges. Also, the game has quite a bit of profanity. But the concept is much better developed than most ectocomp games.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Wedding Day, by Emery Joyce
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A short ectocomp game about a grim wedding, June 29, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This game has a great atmosphere. Its for ectocomp, so its really short, but it has well-clued actions for you to get ready for a wedding in a poor village.

Every item has a message attached to it, and the story has a nice buildup given how short it is. Great fun-to-time ration.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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The Weird Mirror, by M.J. Antonellis
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A short ectocomp game about a creepy mirror, June 29, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This is a short twine game about a creepy mirror. It's jumbled and not polished at all, but it had a sort of breathy earnestness that makes the game more fun, like certain creepy pastas.

There is a creepy mirror in your house, and something can be seen inside. What is it? Is it real?

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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You Are a Blob!, by SoftSoft
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A funny purposely bad game with a 'blob language' you have to deciphter, June 29, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This was a short ectocomp that was intended to bad, to help A. Snyder's game not be last (A. Snyder is Mike Snyder's kid). Neither game ended up being last.

This game has a lot of fake blob language with a grammar and everything. It's silly and purposely bad, and short, but it was fun learning blob grammar and exploring endings.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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Inside Woman, by Andy Phillips
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Andy Phillip's best game; a massive city spy thriller, June 27, 2017*
Related reviews: more than 10 hours

This game took me about 2500 moves to complete this game using the hints; this is an extremely long game, among the very longest I have ever played.

You are in a 40-story city, with about 20 of the stories implemented. Each story that's implemented has 3-4 puzzles.

The game is a spy thriller, with you as the spy. As usual for Andy Phillips games, there is a lot of action, a lot of 'guess what he's thinking', and some male gaze, although it is toned down from his other games.

This is an epic, sprawling game; I have no idea how this fit in the z-machine. It also has a very well executed plot twist that was almost as good as Spider and Web's.

This game took me about a month of playing 30-60 minutes a day. I could have played 20 IFComp games in the time it took me to beat this.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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RPG-ish, by Stuart Lilford
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A really fine tiny micro Twiny Jam game that's an RPG, June 27, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This is an entry in a minimalistic twine jam. It makes the smallest RPG possible. There is a village with an inn and one location to fight monsters, with maybe 2 or 3 kinds of monsters. You collect XP and gold to get to the boss, who is extremely strong.

I really enjoyed this, it encapsulates the essence of an RPG in a fun way.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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Calliope, by Jason McIntosh
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A short fun game about gathering inspiration for IFComp, June 27, 2017*
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This is a relatively short game. You play a programmer in an apartment who is trying to get IFComp inspiration.

As you continually attempt to write your game, you begin to get trippy dreams...or are they dreams?

The game is over relatively quickly, but its enjoyable while it lasts. Has a couple of puzzles.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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Ritual of Purification, by Jarek Sobolewski
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
An intense, surreal game about becoming purified, June 27, 2017*
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This is a short surreal game that swerves from scene to scene with intense emotion. You confront hell, satyrs and nymphs, and so on. There's extreme pain, and you can see your collection of spells by typing Spells.

Some of it is fairly juvenile, though, especially the parts with nymphs/satyrs and the general breathless feel.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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A Good Breakfast, by Stuart Adair
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A game about eating breakfast by collecting items, June 27, 2017*
Related reviews: about 1 hour

This is a shortish game mostly involving complicated puzzles (like the lights puzzle where pushing off one light turns on all those around it, or counting to 255 in quaternary).

Some of the puzzles are gross or a bit mean-spirited, and it could all use some more cluing. Beyond that, it's pretty competently programmed.

Mostly interesting for fans of convoluted puzzles.

* This review was last edited on July 1, 2017
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