Jim Kaplan's Played Games
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| ??????? (Pripyat), by ludi magistrum Jim Kaplan's rating:   Average member rating:  Through the abandoned wild, the river still flows, the buildings still stand, and the reactors a reminder to the day of darkness that breached the two worlds through the veil. The Meltdown of the Chernobyl... |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
| Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| Asylum, by cpuguy89 Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A simple "Escape the room" style game. It is the first of my games that is actually worth publishing. It is not intended to be difficult, and was created for those who are just getting into interactive... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
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| Badlands - Prologue, by AlexThorland Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The prologue to a punishing game about survival, exploration and hard choices. Longer, more expansive chapters will be released. ... |
| Balances, by Graham Nelson Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
| Bed Time, by Charlie the Spiffy Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Building, by Poster Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
| Burn the Koran and Die, by Poster Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: It is the one sacred cow remaining in American political life. You are a rebellious student at a typically oppressive PC college. What happens next? Whatever you do, don't burn the Koran, or you'll die. |
| Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a... |
| Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
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| Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Corvidia, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A very short game about a man, his daughter, the moon, some birds, and an evergreen. |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: (253 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
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| The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters. |
| CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA, by Porpentine Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: THIS GAME IS CANON SPREAD MY GAME SO I CAN GET ON STAGE WITH KE$HA SAVE MUSIC MUSIC IS REAL EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUSIC OR BELIEVE MUSIC EXISTS, HELP ME GET ONSTAGE WITH MY BIGGEST #IDOL #KESHA A GIRL... |
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| Curses, by Graham Nelson Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
| CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: integration necessitates evisceration |
| Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
| Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different... |
| A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
| Deathbox: 2013, by Tylor Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Deathbox 2013 is a post-life destination determination simulation based on a literal interpretation of the Bible. |
| Dork, by EveLum Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Welcome to the first Demons and Bird people adventure game: Dork. ... |
| The Dream-Trap of Zzar, by S. John Ross Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Trapped in a dream-state by a mad scientist bent on galactic domination, you must force yourself awake in the only way known to science. A silly, slightly adult-themed space opera adventure written for... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
| Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
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| Fingertips: I Found a New Friend, by Adri Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: You've had a long day. All you want to do is climb into bed. But why is your pillow quivering like that? Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants... |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
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| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
| Glass, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
| Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
| Head of State, by ronkimmons Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Guide your nation by establishing economic policy that results in prosperity, equity, and stability. |
| Hiding, by Ilovehetalia Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Pointless and short. |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
| Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The Game of Horse Mastery |
| howling dogs, by Porpentine Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
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| IF Whispers 5, by Chris Conley, Joey Jones, Marius Müller, Tom Blawgus Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Travel down into an abandoned Antarctic Base and unveil the mysteries within. A game made in the paper-telephone style, with each person only having access to the section before, with a co-ordinated ending... |
| Indy Wrestler, by faraz Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: You've just graduated from Ka-Pow Wrestling Academy, and your goal is to become a greatest professional wrestler of all time, but to reach that goal, you need to start from the independent scene as a jobber... |
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| The Legend of Robin Hood, by Craig Dutton Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: HISTORICAL-FANTASY. Robin Hood's adventures are taken from medieval ballads and subsequent stories. This is my adaptation of his story, his Merry Men, Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne. |
| The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat. |
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| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
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| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
| The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
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| Paranoia, by cpuguy89 Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: My second game published, another escape the room game. It is considerably more difficult than my first game, Asylum, but is still rather short. The link has been updated, and should now lead to the updated... |
| parasite, by Porpentine Average member rating: trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9tGJapK-jI made for the new inquiry, to coincide with my interview: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/beautiful-weapons/ |
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| The Path to the Forbidden Fortress, by fisherjosh27 Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: This is a project that I created for my creative writing class. It ventures through the realm of Alteron. |
| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
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| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
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Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
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| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
| The Price of Freedom, by Wyatt Ryder Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: you awake in a cell. you have no idea where you are. you must escape this hell they call a castle. |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
| Survival, by lolz2579 Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: It was just a nice day fishing when you find out that your boat has broke and you're stranded on an island. What are you going to do? Find a way off the island, go back home, and finish the game! |
| The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
| Things, by Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
| The Weapon, by Sean Barrett Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
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| Worship the Pig, by Heal Butcher Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The city at the edge of the clay desert held a strange bazaar... |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Jim Kaplan's rating: Average member rating: An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
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