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Don't Be Late

by Greg Ewing

Slice of life
1996

(based on 2 ratings)
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Awards

22nd Place - 2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)

Editorial Reviews

Baf's Guide


A very small game in which you have to reach a friend's house in order to start judging the entries in the Second Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (in which it is itself an entry). Takes at most 15 minutes to play in its entirety. Rather weak parser - "look at", "get", and "him" are not understood, for example. All in all, not a sufficient reason in itself to download the ALAN runtime. Has a cute reentrant ending, though.

-- Carl Muckenhoupt

SPAG
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just really short and really simplistic.
-- C.E. Forman
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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

Circular structure a fun gimmick, but only for a few minutes. No real puzzles to speak of, nor much of an atmosphere. In fact, there’s really not too much to do besides wrestle with the parser.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A short but straightforward old alan game about getting to IFComp, July 5, 2017
by MathBrush
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This is a fun little Alan game (requiring an older interpreter from ifarchive.org) about running to get to playing ifcomp games on time.

The game is well-hinted; I only had one guess-the-verb problem. You basically just hail a taxi and drive over to your friend's house.

The game is on a timer, but its so short that once you figure it out, its super easy to redo. It also has a clever ending.

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