It's October again, and that means the IFComp!

I'm posting reviews this year over at my new blog, elizabethif.wordpress.com, rather than here. See you over there!

For the past couple weeks, I've just been playing games instead of reviewing them, in an effort to get to as many as possible in the judging period. I have been taking good notes, though, so I plan to finish up reviewing the games I've gotten to.

I have gotten kind of irked with LiveJournal, though, so I am giving WordPress a try. Go read it over ( Read more... )

Reels is a web-based game by Tyler Zahnke.

( I don't particularly recommend this game, but nevertheless I'll warn you there are spoilers in here. )

The Cardew House, by Andrew Brown, is a parser-based game written in Inform 7. You can play it online here.

( Spoilers... )

Blood On the Heather, by T. Orisney, is a choice-based story written in Twine. (I have borrowed the phrase "choice-based story" from Emily Short, as it describes pieces like this much better than the terms I came up with.) It is available online here.

( Beware - spoilers! )

A Wind Blown In From Paradise, by N. C. Hunter Hayden, is a short parser-based interactive mood piece.

( Spoilers within. )

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser, is a parser-based game. You can play it online here or download it from the Comp website. I played it offline, using the file I downloaded at the start of the comp. (I see from the changelog that the author fixed a runtime error on Oct. 6, but I don't think I encountered that error in playing anyway.)

( Spoilers, as usual. )

I think I got a little burned out on IF for a few days there. Also, I got at least partly over my cold, which meant I was actually up for doing something other than sitting on the couch playing IF. But I'm not done yet!

The Paper Bag Princess is a children's picture book, written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko. IF author ( Read more... )

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy, is a choice-based web game. You can play it online here.

( I detect spoilers in here. )

Saving John, by Josephine Tsay, is another web-based interactive fiction. It is designed to be played through multiple times. You can play it online here.

A note: I recommend playing the game before reading the description on the comp website. Even though it's just a sentence, it kind of has a spoiler.

( Significant spoilers inside. )