Games that did it earlier - an IFDB Poll
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Floating Info RSS FeedWhat are some lesser known games that were first to have a feature that was later perfected by a more well known game?
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 | Rameses, by Stephen Bond
3 votes
"Rameses' central..." [+]"Rameses' central device - a protagonist whose sense of misery and oppression is mechanically expressed through denial of player agency - has since been used by many, many Twine works." ( ) --Sam Kabo Ashwell... "What SKA said...." [+]"What SKA said. Twine before its time." () --Jeremy Freese... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --DJ...
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| Nevermore, by Nate Cull
2 votes
"Alchemical..." [+]"Alchemical rituals and inference before Hadean Lands." () --Floating Info... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Sobol...
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| Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
2 votes
"Did Lovecraft lens puzzle before Anchorhead" [+]"Did Lovecraft lens puzzle before Anchorhead: Did a telescope lens puzzle involving a Lovecraftian horror before Anchorhead." ( - Full review) --MathBrush... "Anchorhead's lens puzzle was borrowed from this piece" [+]"Anchorhead's lens puzzle was borrowed from this piece: I had played through Theatre once, before I played Anchorhead. When I got to the observatory and looked through that one lens, I had a frightful sense of déjà vu. Michael Gentry, the author of Anchorhead, admitted to having borrowed this part from Theatre." --mjhayes...
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 | Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
1 vote
"Thematic..." [+]"Thematic resemblance: deals with quite a few of the same subjects as The Baron, with a similar set-up, though the storyline is ultimately very different." () --Christina Nordlander...
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 | Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
1 vote
"Did a maze, a thief, a troll, before Zork" [+]"Did a maze, a thief, a troll, before Zork: Many of the most famous details of Zork are from Adventure; an abandoned house with food; a lamp; a maze; a thief; a troll; collecting treasures; and a lot more." ( - Full review) --MathBrush...
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 | Masq, by AlterAction
1 vote
"Telltale Games style timed choice-and-consquences" [+]"Telltale Games style timed choice-and-consquences: Did The Walking Dead's gameplay style over a decade earlier." () --jakomo...
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 | The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson
1 vote
"A plot-light RPG..." [+]"A plot-light RPG adventure with randomised combat and restricted SAVE/UNDO capacities, features later to appear in Kerkerkruip" --Christina Nordlander...
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