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 Saving the world with a single lightbulb.*, January 31, 2021The intro of The Light; Shelby's Addendum pulled me into the game immediately. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next colmmccarthy, November 14, 2021 - Reply Per me in 2015... Shelby's Addendum was supposed to be part one in a "The Light" trilogy. It was all about time distortion, so the events in part one actually took place after those in part two (hence the "addendum"). There were lots of deliberate gaps in the storyline. That seemed to confuse a lot of people...but that's what I get for never completing the trilogy. Part Two was called "The Light: The End of All Things", and began a year or two after the end event of "Shelby's Addendum", before making a beeline into events that took place ten years previously. It focused on how the two scientists (Holcroft and Barclay) discovered a space/time distortion and Barclay, losing his mind after the death of his wife and trying to use the distortion to reconnect with her, triggered the events that led up to the beginning of "Shelby's Addendum". You played three characters in that - Shelby again, Barclay, and some government investigator. I had the game mapped out on paper, and had begun to rough out the code (it would essentially reuse the same map from "Shelby's Addendum" - but I got totally sidetracked by life. I started working on a pirate game ("The Singular, and Historically Inaccurate, Misadventures of Nobeard: Would-be Scourge of the Caribbean" - there's a TADS demo somewhere), then we moved to Ireland and I lost all of the paperwork somewhere along the way. I can't remember what the third one was about. It was going to be called "The Holcroft Covenant" (which turns out was a spy movie in the 1980s). I know Shelby was unstuck in time, and the game would just bounce you all over the place. There were aliens, and Edwardian shipping passengers that were somehow still living in a wreck under the sea due to benign aliens. And a dystopian government collapse. But alas... Incidentally, the lighthouse is mapped after Fanad Head Lighthouse in Donegal, Ireland, where my father was the keeper. You can use the game map as an actual map of that lighthouse and grounds (within reason, obviously). So there you have it, sort of. "Shelby's Addendum" was deliberately obtuse and filled with unanswered questions, only to find itself abandoned and forever obtuse due to an author whose time and talents didn't match his ambitions for his story arc. It's a shame. It probably would have been fun. Thanks for playing. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers. Colm. Rovarsson, November 14, 2021 - Reply Hi! Sorry it took me so long to notice your comment. Too bad the full trilogy never made it into the light. Another one lost after the pilot episode. Still, Light, Shelby's Addendum worked very well on its own. I consider it a highlight from that early modern IF-era I love so much. If I ever find myself near Donegal, Ireland, I'll have to visit the lighthouse and set up a re-enactment of the game. |