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Estimated play time: 5 minutes (based on 6 votes)
Members voted for the following times for this game:
- 5 minutes: "looked at walkthrough for second obstacle" — HereticMole
- 3 minutes — Passerine
- 5 minutes — Tabitha
- 13 minutes: "multiple undo’s" — joes
- 5 minutes — tevildo
- 5 minutes — Stewart C Baker
About the Story
A deeply important philosophical masterwork of serious electronic literature
The cake may be a lie, but what about the pie?
Also you're a spy who's falling from the sky.
Your mission is unknown before here you were flown.
Alas! Alack! Aday! Most verbs have gone away.
Frankly I'm surprised this runs, as it's comprised
of many foolish jokes. I swear, it is no hoax
when unto you I say, I wrote this in a day.
There will be bugs, okay?
Content warning: heights, gun violence
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| Average Rating: Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2 |
Okay, wow. That was one confusing romp. I’m getting through all the short games and then seeing what I can do about the longer games later, if I can get to them at all. These days are numbered for me. I start school tomorrow.
Anyway, the game. Immediately, you’re thrown into the midst of the action, falling from the sky. I love the use of stretching to find rhymes in this case especially, because it was actually quite amusing. Then you fall and struggle to find out how to survive, and restart again and again. Most verbs are blocked, as then they would have to be implemented - a shame, absolutely, but understandable to an extent.
I had to use the walkthrough to get through, and it’s so obvious once you get it. Very silly, slightly amusing, but frustratingly underimplemented.
Live and Get Pie
This was amusing. It's a short parser game where every line rhymes (i.e. the middle of the line rhymes with the end).
I wasn't sure what to do at first, but I liked the rhyme scheme (I like rhyming poetry more than non-rhyming poetry) and I found the implementation responded fairly well to a few things I chose.
When I realized what the actual commands to win were, I smiled, I thought it was great. Reminded me of Hard Puzzle by Ade McTavish, games 1-3 (the solution isn't the same or obtained the same way, but if you've beaten all 3 you'll see what I mean).
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First Publication Date: September 1, 2026
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Inform 7
IFID: 3F709831-AE21-4D39-AE19-C24822A90527
TUID: sosob02r9srvowcv
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