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About the StoryIt all started with a walkthrough of an imaginary game that 8-year-old Ruth typed for Daddy's birthday... then Daddy converted it into a real game, with Ruth's help. It is possible to play it exactly as in the original walkthrough, or to enjoy a very different birthday. A short interactive fiction story written using Inform 7. Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: July 1, 2021 Current Version: 1 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 7 Forgiveness Rating: Polite IFID: 4244AF11-C78C-4064-87CD-C9FF508E6AB6 TUID: f4pv5jn8r1aeu02 |
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The hoary advice given to authors is to write what you know. It’s not bad advice (though not applicable if want to write games about demons, comic-book supervillains, or financial crimes), but it can be difficult to get other readers invested in something that happened in your own life, even if it was interesting to you. To quote much better advice, personal isn’t the same as important. Especially in a short game with no time to develop the protagonist as a character, it’s tricky to get the audience involved in a low-stakes story without any context or universality. “Daddy’s Birthday” manages to avoid this problem by being charming and short enough to avoid wearing out its welcome.
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