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About the StoryMade for the Lovecraft's Common Place project. Game Details |
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50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron A. Reed
The French authors proposed to Nepstad their communal game, an omnibus of short pieces each inspired by a different entry from Lovecraft’s tome of ideas. After both their collaborative effort and the source of inspiration, they titled it Lieux communs, “Common Places.”
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The French IFers set up an SVN source code repository, and rather than give each author ownership over particular stories, encouraged anyone in the community to contribute in their own way [...] the final game would be credited to all of ifiction.free.fr, rather than individual authors. The collaborators first agreed on a frame story—a ghostly caravan filled with mysterious objects [...]
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In part to make the project more accessible to imagined players in a Swiss art gallery, the team decided to include music and illustrations, and to keep puzzles simple. While the style and subject varied with each story and contributor, many of the French games trended more philosophical and dream-like [...]
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Here are my favorite modern (i.e. since 2000) IF games in French. This selection is, of course, entirely subjective. --- Voici mes jeux IF modernes (i.e. depuis 2000) en français préférés. Ce choix est bien sûr tout à fait subjectif.
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The following polls include votes for Lieux Communs:Good Games in French/Bons jeux en français by thecanvasrose
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