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Al Otro Lado, by Antonio Márquez Marín
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
An experiment where you are the computer, typing in descriptions, July 5, 2017*
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This is a completely freeform game. The computer gives you commands, which you respond to. It asks for items in the room, and then will try to TAKE or BREAK them, etc., as well as asking for exits and having you move around.

It was a lot of fun, but only for a short time.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Don't Be Late, by Greg Ewing
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A short but straightforward old alan game about getting to IFComp, July 3, 2017*
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This is a fun little Alan game (requiring an older interpreter from ifarchive.org) about running to get to playing ifcomp games on time.

The game is well-hinted; I only had one guess-the-verb problem. You basically just hail a taxi and drive over to your friend's house.

The game is on a timer, but its so short that once you figure it out, its super easy to redo. It also has a clever ending.

* This review was last edited on July 5, 2017
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Ice House of Horrors, by Sean M. Shore
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A fun game from a fish perspective, June 30, 2017*
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There is a surprisingly large amount of interactive fiction where you play as a fish. This is one of them.

This game does a great job of showing how horrifying ice fishing is to the fish involved. There were some odd interactions, and the game was short, but it's a speed-IF ectocomp game, so I can't complain.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Another Cliched Adventure Game, by David Whyld
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A wildly branching silly ectocomp game, June 30, 2017*
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This game has you wandering around a spooky halloween town and branches a lot, like a time-cave structure.

It starts with a parody of adventure games (a room full of boring furniture), but gets better afterwards.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Blackness, by Michael Phipps
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A short hospital horror game, June 30, 2017*
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This was a speed-IF for ectocomp, which generally means guess-the-verb issues and underimplementation.

That happens here, but not as much as I thought it would be. I didn't read the initial text, and that made the game harder for me, but once that was fixed, I was able to beat the game without a problem.

I found the horror effective. You are a late-night janitor mopping.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Boogle, by Buster Hudson
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A short, creepy google simulator for halloween, June 30, 2017*
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In this game, you have a 'brand new' google engine that's spooky: Boogle.

You find out that boogle is more than you expected, in a fairly funny and gruesome sort of way. The surprises are the best part, so I won't describe it much more. Good fun-to-time ratio.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Candy Rush Saga, by Andrew Schultz
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A Halloween movement game that was less than I thought, June 30, 2017*
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In this game, you are on a 3x3 grid with 4 bad guys and 4 good guys.

I thought the point of the game was to use the elements listed on the rooms to have a sort of rock/paper/scissors battle where you throw bad guys at each other and so on.

Instead, you just move everyone around so that everyone is in the generally correct area. Its fun, but it could have been more. This was an ectocomp game, so what's been done is pretty good.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Carriage Returns, by David Good
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A short, underimplemented but funny horror game, June 30, 2017*
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In this short ectocomp game, you have to buy a newspaper and go into a diner, where events soon unfold in a dangerous way.

I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to do, so I had to textdump the game, but once I found the ending, I thought it was humorous. It definitely could use some more synonyms, though.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Choose Your Own SPOOKY Death, by Healy
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A wacky game about dying on Halloween, June 30, 2017*
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This is a speed IF entered into Ectocomp. In this game, you are aware of your death, and you try to avoid it. It branches wildly, with a bunch of silly deaths.

Some of the branches are advertised as unfinished, but its all part of the fun. I liked it as a small snack.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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City of the Living Dead, by Joshua Houk (as Tanah Atkinson)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
An interesting social commentary entered into Ectocomp, June 30, 2017*
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This game is about gentrification rather than zombification. A social commentary twine game designed to show the plight of those affected by gentrification.

This game had no ending that I could find, but upon restarting the game you can find access to more information about gentrification.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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