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| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2 |
This is a surprisingly complex one move game. It was written for the Apollo 18 Tribute album and named after the corresponding song.
You are stuck in a time loop as a reactor core explodes on a station over a black hole. You have to look at everything, learn a new number system, and figure out some alphanumeric codes.
As a mathematician, this was pretty fun. As an IF player, I appreciated how much work went into this. Great game.
Fingertips: Fingertips is a first class little multi-layered cryptographical puzzler with a richly evoked science fiction setting that neatly makes the one move requirement make sense.
It's the kind of game that you need to write notes on (or uh, at least I did), and has different solutions such that when you find the better solution, the work involved getting there has made it that much more satisfying.
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First Publication Date: March 26, 2012
Current Version: 2
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
Forgiveness Rating: Merciful
IFID: 9DCCBD9E-96A8-4CA1-AD21-63954F363E7E
TUID: n83ryakhz9fbye4x
Fingertips: Fingertips on IFDB
Recommended Lists
Fingertips: Fingertips appears in the following Recommended Lists:Apollo 18+20 by Teaspoon
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The following polls include votes for Fingertips: Fingertips:Games centered around a "groundhog day" loop by Merk
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