External Links


Story file
Requires a Z-Code interpreter. Visit IFWiki for download links.

Have you played this game?

You can rate this game, record that you've played it, or put it on your wish list after you log in.

Playlists and Wishlists

RSS Feeds

New member reviews
Updates to external links
All updates to this page

Iceweb

by Gil Williamson

Science Fiction
2016

Web Site

(based on 1 rating)
1 review

About the Story

A beginner-level text-only Infocom-style game with a cyberpunk theme.

It was written for the e-zine Mythaxis (issue 17 Feb 2016)

http://mythaxis.co.uk/11issuev17.htm

It was published with a Parchment framework and is playable on-line via a browser.

A .zblorb has been uploaded to ifarchive.




Game Details

Tags

- View the most common tags (What's a tag?)

(Log in to add your own tags)
Tags you added are shown below with checkmarks. To remove one of your tags, simply un-check it.

Enter new tags here (use commas to separate tags):

Member Reviews

Average Rating:
Number of Reviews: 1
Write a review


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Short, well-written espionage thriller, July 23, 2020
by ChrisM (Cambridge, UK)

This is a fairly short, tersely written thriller, played entirely straight which makes a refreshing change from the usual more-or-less comic mode of most parser IF. You play a secret agent on a mission to retrieve a piece advanced technology from behind enemy lines (your people want to reverse engineer it, for purely defensive purposes of course). Most of the action takes place in a dinghy which you navigate between a few locations linked by pseudo-random exits (or at least, I couldn't figure out the map), which combines with the brief but precise descriptions to give a convincing impression of bobbing around on the waves. The game is very polished and very accessible. There aren't any bugs that I can see and care has been taken to guide the player through the narrative; you shouldn't get stuck or find yourself wondering what to do. It's fairly short and there are useful hints built in, which more experienced players are unlikely to need but beginners will be grateful for. The puzzles, such as they are, aren't very taxing (the items in your inventory make it pretty obvious what you need to do, and you seem able to stash an infinite amount of stuff in your wetsuit), and that is quite right for this story-driven game. If you want something fairly easy but nicely involving to pass an hour so, then this does the job very well.

Was this review helpful to you?   Yes   No   Remove vote  
More Options

 | Add a comment 




This is version 3 of this page, edited by Zape on 8 July 2020 at 11:16pm. - View Update History - Edit This Page - Add a News Item - Delete This Page