Andrew Schultz
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Last visited May 12, 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
Pub Hubbub, by Christopher Drum May 4, 2021
"With a title like Pub Hubbub, you'd expect a few cheap jokes, and they're the good sort of cheap, the ones that give good return for..." - See the full review
Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, Adam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson May 4, 2021
Reflections, by Tristin Grizel Dean April 28, 2021
Dungeons of Antur, by Ricardo Oyon Rodriguez April 28, 2021
Sandcastle Master, by EldritchRenaissanceCake April 27, 2021
"With games featuring youth I'm always a bit worried that there will be nostalgia-pandering, but this game left my worries baseless. It..." - See the full review
"With a title like Pub Hubbub, you'd expect a few cheap jokes, and they're the good sort of cheap, the ones that give good return for..." - See the full reviewCragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, Adam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson May 4, 2021
"I'm too close to Cragne Manor to give it five stars officially. I tested a bunch of rooms and wound up emotionally invested in it. I..." - See the full review
Reflections, by Tristin Grizel Dean April 28, 2021
"The danger of relying on the old fairy tales is that you don't wind up saying or doing anything new, or you wind up getting too wild and..." - See the full review
Dungeons of Antur, by Ricardo Oyon Rodriguez April 28, 2021
"It's been done before, combining an RPG with a text adventure, but Dungeons of Antur (DoA) wound up performing much better than other..." - See the full review
Sandcastle Master, by EldritchRenaissanceCake April 27, 2021
"With games featuring youth I'm always a bit worried that there will be nostalgia-pandering, but this game left my worries baseless. It..." - See the full reviewSee all 51 reviews by Andrew Schultz
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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