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About the StoryA text adventure in which you help Bartie Worster to navigate Christmas with aunts and schemers. Game Details |
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9th place - Adventuron Christmas Jam
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A verbose Adventuron game about Wodehousian antics, December 26, 2020This Adventuron game has more words than any other I've seen. It's firmly in the Wodehousian vein, with a butler named Gieves and hijinks caused by upper-class British misunderstandings.
It was quite clever and parts of it were very funny (including the ending). It suffered from a certain problem that many humorous games have, which is that the author clearly had some very funny solutions in mind, but that requires several leaps of intuition that aren't always fair.
Overall, though, this is a hefty game with good writing and clever puzzles. I think this would have done fairly well in IFComp, placing in the top half.
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