Andrew Schultz
ChicagoTop 50 Reviewer
Member since November 3, 2010
Last visited August 2, 2021
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I played tons of Infocom games as a kid. I loved them. Then I discovered other people on the Internets still loved them, too.
I like to try to write, too, but it's been quite a learning experience. I'm still leaving obvious stuff out, and I'm still going in for the sort of crazily abstruse puzzles that made Infocom such a neat profit in hintbooks. But I want to learn.
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Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) (2012) (21 ratings)A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling... |
| Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz (2013) (23 ratings) A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
| Very Vile Fairy File, by Billy Boling (2019) (7 ratings) Well, your name is Kerry Kyle, so you can't be the worst person to destroy the Very Vile Fairy File. |
| Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn) (2018) (7 ratings) No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up! |
| Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz (2012) (11 ratings) It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does. |
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Polls by Andrew Schultz
Games with Books/Bookshelves/Libraries - 38 votes for 27 games; created May 13, 2016
Games with amusing deaths - 26 votes for 19 games; created April 7, 2015
Games with non-standard directions - 23 votes for 17 games; created December 28, 2014
I'm interested in games with lots of books you can read through. Maybe it's just a lot of cool titles and authors. Maybe they're randomly...
Games with amusing deaths - 26 votes for 19 games; created April 7, 2015
Lots of games have one amusing death, but what games best take the concept and run with it? These deaths could be nudges on messing...
Games with non-standard directions - 23 votes for 17 games; created December 28, 2014
I'm wondering about games (primarily parser) with weird directions beyond NW/SW/SE/NE, up, down or inside/outside. I like the example in...
Reviews by Andrew Schultz
Djinn on the Rocks, by Joshua Wilson May 31, 2021
Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis May 31, 2021
Pub Adventure!, by Robin & Tom Edwards May 26, 2021
Buccaneer's Cache, by Wilfried Elmenreich May 26, 2021
The Job, by Fredrik Ramsberg May 25, 2021
"Djinn on the Rocks (DotR) would be worth playing for the mechanic alone, and since it gets that and more right, it's well worth a play...." - See the full review
Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis May 31, 2021
"Captain Cutter's Treasure (CCT) is an impressive, small game. A pirate's daughter has been kidnapped. The ransom is some hidden treasure...." - See the full review
Pub Adventure!, by Robin & Tom Edwards May 26, 2021
"In Pub Adventure, a ghost tasks you with making them a drink (a zombie, of course.) There aren't a lot of puzzles, and I was fortunate..." - See the full review
Buccaneer's Cache, by Wilfried Elmenreich May 26, 2021
"It was interesting to track which games in PunyJam gave credit to which old-school games and tropes, and this game along with Arthur's..." - See the full review
The Job, by Fredrik Ramsberg May 25, 2021
"The author redacted themselves from the competition they created, but The Job wound up making a decent account of itself, as I saw it...." - See the full review
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Andrew Schultz's Play Lists
Played Games
Maze of Madness, by Lurkio/AntSpace Quest: The Lost Chapter, by Vonster D Monster
No Room, by Ben Heaton
Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Zyll, by Marshal Linder and Scott Edwards (IBM)
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Wish List
The Day I shot ..., by Marius MüllerMrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret, by Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
Gaia's Web, by Nigel Jayne
Building, by Poster
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort