MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - Part I: Enigma

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About the Story

London, 1912. When you invade a bored boarding house and proceed to climb the garden tree, stage an impromptu concert, and propose to a stranger, your fellow lodgers assume you're eccentric, rather than insane. Until you show them your revolver.

Based on the first half of the 1912 novel Manalive by G. K. Chesterton.

Awards

24th Place - 12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2006)

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An adaptation of a GK Chesterton novel, April 18, 2016

by MathBrush

As I played this, I thought, "What on earth is the intended genre here?" Then I discovered it was an adaptation of a G.K. Chesterton novel.

In this comic and somewhat surreal game, you play a jovial old fellow who is cheering people up.

I couldn't get past 30 points because I couldn't figure out how to call everyone down to join the party. That, combined with a few guess the verb issues, left me frustrated.

This game won the Golden Banana of discord.

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Game Details

Language: English (en)
Current Version: 2
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6

IFWiki: MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - Part I: Enigma

Baf's Guide ID: 2965
IFID: ZCODE-2-000002-ABE3
TUID: mrnxwklcti8m8b38

Followed by sequel MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - Part II: Explanation, by Bill Powell