Remembrance

Baf's Guide

This is barely IF; it owes much more to choose-your-own-adventure stories. It's a series of web pages written in Javascript, essentially, and there's one thing you have to do to on each page to get the next one in the series. You get a pull-down menu with a few verbs on each page, but if you don't do what the Javascript is looking for, you essentially get an error message and try again. (Well, there's one point where you actually have to type something, which takes some syntax-guessing, but that's an exception.) The story itself--it revolves around World War I--isn't bad, and there's one puzzle that might have been rather clever if it had been implemented on a system with a parser (as it is, the verb list gives it away). As it stands, though, this doesn't really work.

-- Duncan Stevens