External Links
- Primrose.zblorb
The latest release.
Or download Primrose.zblorb and run the game in a Z-Code interpreter. - Primrose.z8
The original competition entry.
Or download Primrose.z8 and run the game in a Z-Code interpreter.
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About the Story
You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . .
You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps; certainly you never planned on having to save your best friend's life. Now, it's up to you to unearth the secrets he's been concealing from you, perhaps learning a thing or two about yourself in the process...
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1 Off-Site Review
These Heterogenous Tasks
ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF IF COMP: The Primrose Path
ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF IF COMP is my attempt, in the run-up to the 2016 IF Competition, to go back over Comp entries which I missed the first time around.
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[The Primrose Path] was also an Inform 7 game released the same year that I7 was released as a public beta; for a first-time IF author with “more or less nonexistent” programming experience to pick up the somewhat-immature I7, learn to code in it, and produce a game that placed second in the Comp within five months is a pretty amazing accomplishment.
If I was looking for a good counterpart to The Primrose Path… tonally, I might go with Eurydice. But it’s also firmly a member of the time-travel tangle genre, alongside works like All Things Devours, First Things First, Fifteen Minutes and Meanwhile.
The writing is feels very grounded, with a matter-of-fact tone. This does an excellent job of maintaining a magical-realism feeling; you always feel that Matilda is a real person, rather than a fantasy trope or a player avatar.
See the full review
Game Details
Current Version: 4
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
Baf's Guide ID: 2942
| IFIDs: | CB39F775-9725-46B1-BB36-2177C70AEF2C |
| 9A72E4B2-77D5-4198-B77C-918DA6FB3452 | |
| 12ED78A6-E4C5-4466-BDA1-2E9403B97AFC |
