Enveloping Darkness

by John Muhlhauser, Helen Pluta, and Othniel Aryee

2021

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Short, straight-forward fantasy game with mediocre writing, October 21, 2021
by RadioactiveCrow (Irving, TX)
Related reviews: About 30 minutes

This game feels like exactly the game I would have written in the 7th or 8th grade. The plot careens down a path that seems to throw in whatever random idea came into the author's head that day. I can see the enthusiasm that went in to making this story thought. In my younger days of writing short stories, I too would have a fun idea pop into my head and then shoehorn it into the story I was currently working on.

I only noticed one error in the implementation, but the interface was about as simple as it gets: black text on a white background with at most two choices at each junction. Then the ending came very abruptly and without much payoff. A decent enough first effort/test game, but not quite up to the standards of IFComp.

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