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Welcome

by Ryan Veeder profile

2024
Inform 7

(based on 8 ratings)
Estimated play time: 2 hours and 15 minutes (based on 2 votes)
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2 reviews10 members have played this game. It's on 6 wishlists.

About the Story

There are no quotation marks in the source code for this game. Please check out the readme first.

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Average Rating: based on 8 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
You can see a game here., August 23, 2024
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The total lack of exposition turns the mechanics of the game engine itself into a kind of logic puzzle. Information is desperately scarce, and every tiny crumb must be noticed and carefully considered for significance. Obviously it won't win any awards for storytelling, but I found it to be an enjoyable brain teaser and very cleverly designed.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A puzzly game written without the use of any text in quotation marks, February 1, 2025
Related reviews: about 2 hours

This game is written under extreme constraints. Specifically, it uses no quotation marks, including ones that would be used to give the game a title (so Inform defaults to 'Welcome').

So everything has to be deduced from the info you're given in object names and actions of those around you. Runtime errors are also a source of info.

This is quite tricky of a game. There are several layers of puzzle here. I solved a small chunk of the game on my own (around 20-30%) then went to David Welbourn's walkthrough, where I realized I hadn't understood any of the run-time errors.

Overall, this was a fun concept that was well-executed.

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Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: August 20, 2024
Current Version: 1
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
IFID: FA99BA87-F7DE-4E8A-9B26-01BAC9017084
TUID: pm060iu95lbch57

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Outstanding technical implementation of 2024 by MathBrush
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