Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick

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Seasonal, Science Fiction
2022

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Mad scientist time-loop game written in 4 hours, November 11, 2022
by MathBrush
Related reviews: 15-30 minutes

This is a game with a fun little idea for the speed-IF portion of Ectocomp. It's hard to write a parser game at all in 4 hours, let alone a time loop, so this one is pretty impressive.

I thought at first it was set in the world of Gravity Falls, since there's a guy with the name Old Man McGuffin that sounds like the gravity falls scientist guy, but the names aren't entirely similar (McGuffin vs McGucket). Either way, the game has the old scientist offload a weird time-loop device on you as a 'trick' during trick-or-treating.

The game has a pretty big map for a small game, but a lot of it is red herrings. Once you find the areas that are 'real', you can piece together what to do.

This game wasn't polished or fully descriptive (which is usual for speed-IF, including my own), but was fun and the puzzles were neat.

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Stewart C Baker, November 14, 2022 - Reply
Ha! I do appreciate Gravity Falls, but in this case he's just called that because he gives you the McGuffin.
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