Fireboat

This is fos1's third game, I think, and it's been nice seeing them progress over time. This is his most complex game yet, I think. It still is rough in some areas but I enjoyed playing.

The idea is that you are in charge of a fireboat on the Hudson river in NYC, and you are visited by a strange ghost who begins to leave you messages.

The game is both hard and easy. It's a little hard because some things aren't coded in, like some synonyms, and you have to use nautical navigation (although that wasn't too bad). It's easy, though, because the game tells you exactly what to do.

I enjoyed zooming about the river and having memories of my family. Places that I think could use improvement in the future are improving conversation and replacing Inform's default 'you can see a ____ here'. The best way to do that (for an author who wants to) is to type the name of the object in the room description with brackets around it, like: 'Lined up in a row are some [map charts], a [dial], and [a compass]' (if you had those three things).

Anyway, I look forward to future games!