Friday Afternoon

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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

Overall, Friday Afternoon is an enjoyable game and a nice utilization of an underused subgenre in IF. (What happens when the protagonists of college games graduate? They become the protagonists of office games!) It's flawed by some problems with the player character, but is aided by fine characters, very good puzzles, and solid implementation.

This game placed in the middle of ifcomp the year it came out.

You play an office workers who is excited for a date after work, but has been asked to stay late to finish some stuff up.

You go around a small, 5-room office, negotiating, searching, etc.

Some of the puzzles are clever, but others are pretty opaque. I felt like I had to really lean on the walkthrough.

The setting was portrayed fairly accurately. There was one unfortunate part with a pin-up calendar, but the game is completely tame otherwise.

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- Audiart (Davis, CA), January 8, 2009

- brattish (Canada), April 3, 2008

Baf's Guide

You're trying to get out of your office so that you can go on a date. There's a little too much of the author's actual office (i.e., the rest of us don't necessarily get all the jokes), but this is well put together and the puzzles are reasonably clever. The first one, in fact--your glasses are broken and you have to fumble around the office, unable to see anything--is rather innovative. Generally, it's a witty take on office boredom, and there's lots of whimsy and Easter eggs scattered around.

-- Duncan Stevens