Doug Orleans

Somerville, MA, USA

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Member since April 10, 2010
Last visited March 14, 2025
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E-mail: dougorleans@gmail.com

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Interactive Fiction by Doug Orleans

Look Around the Corner, by Doug Orleans (as Robert Whitlock) (2014)
(4 ratings)

A short game inspired by the song "Look Around the Corner" by Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Bárbaro.

Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans (2015)
(8 ratings)
A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″.

Last Day of Summer, by Doug Orleans (as Cameron Fox) (2011)
(20 ratings)

It's the last day of summer, and you're old enough now to go into town by yourself.

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Doug's Top Ten of IF Comp 2015 - 10 items December 9, 2016

I played all 53 entries in IF Comp 2016. These were the top ten games on my ballot. Note that I rate games on slightly different criteria...

Doug's Top Ten of IF Comp 2016 - 10 items December 9, 2016

I played all but one of the 58 entries in IF Comp 2016 (I couldn't play Labyrinth of Loci because I don't have access to Windows or Mac...

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Reviews by Doug Orleans

When the Land Goes Under the Water, by Bruno Dias (as Nikephoros De Kloet) May 27, 2015

"This game starts with the admonition "If you intend to write a review or discuss it with others, I suggest you play through it exactly..." - See the full review

Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) May 27, 2015

"Everything about this game is charming: the premise (you are a doll who has been enchanted to protect a child of a wealthy magician..." - See the full review

Heading East, by Hugo Labrande (as Alex Davies) May 26, 2015 (edited: March 9, 2017)

"(Full disclosure: I helped playtest this game.) A short coming-of-age vignette, evocative and touching. The connection to the song it's..." - See the full review

Interstellar Text Adventure, by Jordan Goldberg March 24, 2015

"I appreciate the sentiment that led to the existence of this game, and it has some nice hard-sf imagery and sense-of-wonder, but the..." - See the full review

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury) June 4, 2014 (edited: June 5, 2014)

"Very short but polished and evocative with a decent emotional heft. The one puzzle was difficult but fair, and I felt clever when I..." - See the full review

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Doug Orleans's Play Lists

Played Games

How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin, by Ryan Veeder
Die Another Day, by Emery Joyce
Like a Sky Full of Locusts, by Ryan Veeder
Familiar Problems, by Daniel Stelzer, Ada Stelzer, Sarah Stelzer
Voyage of the Marigold, by Andrew Stephens

See all 435 entries in the Played List

Wish List

The Bloody Wallpaper, by Chandler Groover and Failbetter Games
A Newt by Any Other Name, by Chandler Groover and Failbetter Games
Arcana, by Chandler Groover and Failbetter Games
The Bat, by Chandler Groover
Slobgollion, by Chandler Groover and Failbetter Games

See all 333 entries in the Wish List

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