The Chronicler

The Chronicler has a great title, and an author whose e-mail address ends in alum.mit.edu, and some of the initial writing is decent, but upon actually playing the game, I started to see gaps in its implementation. I then checked out the ABOUT text:

Chronicler is a short game for the Interactive Fiction Competition 2010. Unfortunately, due to time constraints it's only half finished, or perhaps three-quarters. I can only hope that you'll find some amusement from the manipulations of objects it affords, while apologizing for the shortness of the experience.

And that was when I quit. Thanks for wasting a few minutes of my evening, Mr. Evans. You might have gotten higher than a 1 had you not actually admitted that you knew (you knew!) that what you were entering wasn't comp worthy.