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The Compass Rose

by Yoon Ha Lee and Peter Berman

(based on 4 ratings)
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About the Story

There's more than one north by which to guide a world.

The survivor of a space raid colonizes a new world with the aid of a compass rose.

1 Off-Site Review

Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
There is some lovely imagery; and how many other games, IF or otherwise, make the game about the composition of a culture? All the same, I felt some of the time that I was working with the skeleton of a story, rather than the story itself...
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Games with non-standard directions by Andrew Schultz
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 the Inform docs (Charles S. Roberts) about hexagonal directions but have no clue how to go about...

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