John Simon's Played Games
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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre John Simon'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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| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison John Simon'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... |
| Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! John Simon's rating: Average member rating: WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
| Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, by Emily Short John Simon's rating: Average member rating: |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler John Simon'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,... |
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| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short John Simon'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... |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers John Simon'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... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin John Simon'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 John Simon'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. |
| Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin John Simon's rating: Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
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| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry John Simon's rating: Average member rating: This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota John Simon'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 |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre 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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| rendition, by nespresso Average member rating: They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live... |
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| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin John Simon's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre John Simon's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin John Simon's rating: Average member rating: A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese 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] |
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