External Links
- Story File v1
The original competition entry.
Or download Story File v1 and run the game in a Z-Code interpreter.
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About the Story
"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One?
Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf...
You begin to crawl forward, the tunnel floor oozing and pliable under your knees and palms. The secret door bangs shut and disappears. The tunnel begins to shiver, and from up ahead a roar like a waterfall issues from the darkness."
[--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
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1 Off-Site Review
>VERBOSE -- Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction Page
I was the perfect audience for this game, or near-perfect anyway. I've seen and enjoyed Being John Malkovich, the film by Spike Jonze. I've hung around the IF scene for a long time. I've played every Plotkin game, even Inhumane. I've also played every Infocom game, which turns out to be helpful as well. Even with all that, I'm not sure I caught every reference (especially given the prodigious list of such references provided by the author in the endnotes), but I think I caught a lot of them. Consequently, I'm not sure how somebody who doesn't fulfill some or all of the above criteria would react to BAP, but I can tell you this: I thought it was a delight.
See the full review
Game Details
Current Version: 2
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 911
| IFIDs: | ZCODE-1-000928-2C24 |
| ZCODE-2-080423-A4E3 |
