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The eight-headed giant

by zeno pillan profile

2024
Inform 7

(based on 5 ratings)
Estimated play time: 10 minutes (based on 1 vote)
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The eight-headed giant is a 499 words text adventure written by Zeno Pillan with Inform 7 in June 2024 for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2024.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Confront an eight-headed giant, January 20, 2025
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This is the second game by this author that I've played that was entered in the Neo Twiny Jam. Both are parser games.

The other game had a really creepy atmosphere that worked well with an unfinished/minimalist vibe. This game is less so.

In this game, there is an eight-headed giant you have to confront. Each head will request something different from you.

To prepare, you need to talk to everyone in your office to grab something from them. Then you can use those to defeat the giant.

There are some noticeable typos and despite the COMMAND command listing vocab, it's not often clear what to do or how the solution to a problem is supposed to be devised.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Roll dem dices and face your boss!, June 11, 2024
Related reviews: neotwinyjam

The eight-headed giant is a micro parser where you are some sort of fantasy office drone about to go face your eight-headed giant boss, and do an important presentation. But before you get into it sword swinging, you need to go around the office and get ready (i.e. collect all that you need). It’s pretty railroady and simple to solve, but I still manage to get stuck because I forgot to do the most important thing: FACE the giant xD
Also a neat thing: it has cool ASCII art!

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