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Lime Ergot

by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) profile

2014
Inform 7

About the Story

Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.)

Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014.

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v.19: 17-Dec-2017 01:13 - Autymn Castleton
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v.18: 01-Jul-2017 10:30 - Caleb Wilson
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v.17: 28-Jun-2017 14:18 - Caleb Wilson
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v.8: 08-Dec-2015 15:32 - Bruno Dias
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v.7: 08-Dec-2015 09:11 - Caleb Wilson
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v.6: 09-Jun-2015 15:54 - Doug Orleans
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v.5: 27-Dec-2014 20:45 - Caleb Wilson
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v.4: 27-Dec-2014 20:43 - Caleb Wilson
v.3: 13-Dec-2014 10:24 - Caleb Wilson
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v.2: 24-Nov-2014 09:22 - Caleb Wilson
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v.1: 09-Nov-2014 00:04 - DB
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2 Off-Site Reviews

Segue
Lime Ergot is a telescoping perception puzzle. This is where its importance to the parser medium lies: it uses the traditional construction of objects and subobjects to recast movement and perception. For decades, the parser was very concerned with “mimetic” representations of realistic space, with achieving a form of immersion that is present, also, in graphical video games; particularly with achieving the sort of materiality and space that is also found in those games.

Works like this upend this ideal. They present a space that has to be traversed on different terms. You play Lime Ergot by falling into its descriptive text, one layer at a time. Most uses of this device only go a couple layers deep and rely on increasingly-minute detail; Lime Ergot discards our spatial expectations entirely, and not only builds in an implausible number of layers of perception, many of the moves are lateral or even not spatial at all. It’s probably one of the best representations, in fiction, of a hallucinatory or dissociating state.
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spooky action at a distance
Parser as hallucination in “Lime Ergot” (review by Arkady Martine)
In short: this is one of the most coherent games I have played in terms of using the precise medium of interactivity to produce and highlight an emotional state in the player. It is an absolute gem of a game.
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Game Details

Language: English, Castilian (en, es)
First Publication Date: October 31, 2014
Current Version: 3
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
IFID: D411018C-89C6-4AB8-9F9B-21E38BD34002
TUID: b8mb4fcwmf1hrxl