Don't Be Late

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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.

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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- Miron (Berlin, Germany), December 11, 2007

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