Ben Cressey's Played Games
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| > by @, by Aaron A. Reed Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
| The 12:54 to Asgard, by J. Robinson Wheeler Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating:  Your mood is foul as you drive down to the studio in the middle of the night to fix a leak that's threatening to short circuit the entire studio. A chilling feeling haunts you tonight, and you feel pushed to... |
| 69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey'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. |
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| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Ben Cressey'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 Ben Cressey'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.... |
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| All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Ben Cressey'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] |
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| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Ben Cressey'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... |
| Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
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| The Argument, by Harvey Smith Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features... |
| The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
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| Babel, by Ian Finley Ben Cressey'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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| Basic Train-ing, by bpsp Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An infantryman finds himself trapped on a peculiar train traveling through an even stranger forest. But could the situation be more than what it appears? |
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| Best of Three, by Emily Short Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Blind, by Andrew Metzger Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: A creep kidnaps you, a blind girl. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap? |
| The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
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| Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Ben Cressey's rating: 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. |
| Burn the Koran and Die, by Poster Ben Cressey'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. |
| Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
| The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove. |
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| Couch of Doom, by Megan Moser and Margaret Moser Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Can you get yourself off the couch? |
| Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You are awoken, startled by a sound in the night. Still bleary from dreams, you turn on the light to chase away the shadows. But there, beyond the safety of your room, something moves in the darkness. It is... |
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| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Ben Cressey'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... |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
| Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: The infection has spread. They are coming. |
| The Dream-Trap of Zzar, by S. John Ross Ben Cressey'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 Ben Cressey'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... |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
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| The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for... |
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| Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
| Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
| Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But... |
| Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions! |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Ben Cressey'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... |
| Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Ben Cressey'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... |
| The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been... |
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| Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
| Glass, by Emily Short Ben Cressey'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... |
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The Grand Quest, by Owen Parish
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| Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Ben Cressey'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... |
| Hallow Eve, by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You are about to drive out to meet some friends for a camping trip on Halloween night. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the unexpected can always occur. If it did, you would need to rely... |
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| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
| Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
| The Hours, by Robert Patten Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought. A simple heist in the ancient Library of Alexandria turns into a murder mystery. ONLINE PLAY: The status bar is essential to the game, but may... |
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| I Expect You To Die, by Anthony Schuster Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Help the secret agent escape from the villain's deathtrap. Or is there more? |
| I-0, by Anonymous Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
| In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: A sci-fi/pulp satire, extremely brief and slight (it can be beaten in 12 turns) beginning in a cell beneath the house of a mad scientist. The scientist lay dead at your feet, and now you must answer the... |
| Indigo, by Emily Short Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
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| The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: "The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would... |
| Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
| The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
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The Last Dark Day, by Bob Reeves
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| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
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| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Ben Cressey'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 |
| Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
| Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: "Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a... |
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| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Ben Cressey'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... |
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| The Manor at Whitby, by L. E. Hall Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Visiting your British relations for the first time, you discover the secrets of the strange ancestral manor. |
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| Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
| Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love? |
| The Moon Watch, by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defence of the Motherland - and then the crisis... |
| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
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| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
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| Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit. |
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| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Ben Cressey'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... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey'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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| Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye... |
| The Promise, by Sean Huxter Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to... |
| A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
| Rameses, by Stephen Bond Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
| Recess At Last, by Gerald Aungst Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: After endless months of indoor recess, an eager student's plan to try out his brand new sneakers is thwarted by one missing assignment. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Ben Cressey'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... |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
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| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant... |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| Snowquest, by Eric Eve Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
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Spelunker's Quest, by Tom Murrin
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| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Ben Cressey'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... |
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| Starborn, by Juhana Leinonen Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: The Magellan returned to Earth two weeks ago. I however can never go home. There are two versions of the story: Inform 7 version (2011) that uses a single-keyword parser, and Undum/Vorple version (2012) that... |
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| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
| Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you? |
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| Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Ben Cressey'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... |
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| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
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| Violet, by Jeremy Freese Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Ben Cressey's rating: Average member rating: Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Ben Cressey'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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