Once your Glulx player is installed, download the Photopia 2. You can also download Photopia 1. Once your Glulx player is installed, download the Blorb file K.
Next, download the Z-code file 87K. Next, download the Z-code file 56K. Play Online For something as short as , this is a perfectly good option. Play in your browser. Next, download the Z-code file 44K. Click on the link that corresponds to your system: Windows. Easy or difficult? Moderately difficult. The testers did convince me to add some modern features like pronouns so less of the difficulty would come from the parser. Good for newcomers? Online A few caveats here: Endless, Nameless is huge, and the Parchment program used to play IF through a browser has trouble with it.
Story; almost no gamelike elements. Easy; if stuck, just keep exploring. I hope so! Winner of four Xyzzy Awards, including Best Game of This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved into little more than a glorified and not even especially glorified butlership: your duties include organizing banquets, overseeing the servants, and greeting visitors. It is not unprecedented for Palace Ministers to make something of themselves.
One might even say it is tradition. All you need is an opportunity. That opportunity has arrived. King Charles was not an old king. Indeed, he had a good forty years left in him. In this respect I-0 is also an immature game; though not in the sense of "adolescent", but in the sense that the form of puzzle-light games with branching narratives was still in its infancy.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is obvious that some of the design decisions in I-0 are not particularly successful. For instance, the use of completely disjunct and unrelated narrative strands only means that we can play two more or less separate games if we have the patience to search for them; here is no meaningful connection between these playthroughs. Playing one of the strands does not throw new light on the other. This means that the branching narrative is little more than a gimmick.
Another defect of the design is that most of the branches are hidden quite well. It is entirely possible to play through the game, finding the way forward only with some difficulty, and never getting an inkling that there were other possibilities as well. This lack of the obviousness of choice undermines the power of having a branching narrative. Not all choice needs to be obvious, but by making some choices obvious a game can indicate that it has branching plot lines and will reward further exploration.
Be that as it may, I-0 is still an easy game to like. For an IF game, the setting, plot and characters that Cadre give us are fresh; the writing is often good; and fooling around with Tracy is fun. On top of that, it was an innovative game in its time, and deserves some historical recognition. One of the essential IF pieces? Perhaps not, but it is not too far removed from that category. Prospective players may wish to know that on some playthroughs, the game contains sexual abuse, though this is not described in any detail.
It is true that you play a year-old girl who can take her clothes off any time she wants, but that doesn't affect game play nearly as much as I expected. In fact, if you completely ignored this option which I would recommend on your first several playthroughs then the game hardly plays any differently and only a few of the branches are closed off to you.
This game isn't really a story-based game there's almost no plot arch and it isn't really a puzzle game unless trying to figure out how to accomplish certain task with the parser is considered a puzzle. It is just a trying-a-bunch-of-stuff game, but that can be fun too. I did have a few frustrations with it, however: Spoiler - click to show I think the parser's response to certain phrases could have been more robust.
There were at least two instances when I typed something for example: "get out from under car" and the game responded by telling me I had to do what I had just asked to do first the response was literally "You have to get out from under the car first". Also, I asked the server to use the phone, got a reply of "sure, whatever" but then couldn't use a phone. I also hated how much waiting the game required at certain points. You're going home for your birthday. Crap happens. Can you get home, defeating those villains and evil circumstances which will try to circumvent you?
This is a very straightforward game. In fact, if you happen to be brand new to the realm of Interactive Fiction, I might well suggest you play this one just to get started!
It is easy. There's no getting around that. It shouldn't take anybody more than twenty minutes to solve. But it's a rare sort of text adventure game in that it can draw the player back to play it again and again, to try new approaches and to see what happens.
There is, after all, more than one way to play this game or any other game in fact. You can get naked. The game will recognize it, and there will be a reactive circumstance. You can solicit. You can masturbate. You can do all sorts of nasty things, you sick bastard. Of course, it's also quite possible to play the game in a completely "PG" rated way, too - it's completely up the player how he wants to play it. That's power, and I loves it. The game puts you into the high heels of Tracy Valencia, a first year college student who turns eighteen tomorrow.
You're going home for your birthday. Crap happens. Can you get home, defeating those villains and evil circumstances which will try to circumvent you? This is a very straightforward game. In fact, if you happen to be brand new to the realm of Interactive Fiction, I might well suggest you play this one just to get started! It is easy. There's no getting around that.
It shouldn't take anybody more than twenty minutes to solve.
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