External Links
- gostak.z5
The original competition entry.
Or download gostak.z5 and run the game in a Z-Code interpreter.
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About the Story
"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.
Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.
But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
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1 Off-Site Review
>VERBOSE -- Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction Page
I was shocked at how quickly and easily I found myself typing commands like "doatch at droke about calbice". However, the whole experience was completely cerebral, with little of the emotional catharsis I associate with successful storytelling. I felt this effect when I played Dan Schmidt's For a Change, but it's ten times stronger in this game, where words aren't simply rearranged but actually replaced wholesale. Consequently, while playing The Gostak was a strange and memorable experience, one which will surely elevate the game to the rarefied level of For A Change, Bad Machine, and Lighan ses Lion, I found it a somewhat strained sort of fun. Great for a puzzle-solving mood, and certainly worth trying if you're a cryptography buff, but not terribly involving as a story.
See the full review
Game Details
Current Version: 2
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 1670
| IFIDs: | ZCODE-2-020305-0926 |
| ZCODE-1-010926-BE47 |
