Anonymous asked:

Ah, the apartment game was called Shade. Try it, it's creepy.

lexyeevee answered:

found on ifarchive, and playable via parchment: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/shade.z5

i’ll give this a shot when i get off work in a bit, thanks!

welp that was definitely a bit surreal

i totally want to write a game like this now but i have to wait a while before i can think about it or i’ll end up just copying this haha

i super love games where things subtly change around you and you may or may not notice right away (or ever) — it’s a subset of how i super duper love games where the real human being playing it is actually part of the game, not just controlling it

shade was a bit more overt most of the time, but there were some light touches that made me do a double take

pretty short and easy, played it on my phone last night, probably a decent introduction to IF as well, go play it

(the author also has a deliberate IF intro tutorial game called The Dreamhold which i’m gonna give a try too)

Anonymous asked:

Oh, MAN. Interactive fiction. Have you played a lot of those? I'm getting a fit of nostalgia. My favorite ones: The one where you use a jigsaw puzzle to go back in time and fix history, the one where your comfortable apartment slowly dissolves into a desert wasteland, the one where you can "link" objects together to make them share qualities, the one where you have to go back in time repeatedly and avoid yourself...I have too many favorite ones.

i haven’t played NEARLY ENOUGH of them tbh, but i really love the format

actually i’m trying to write a flora-themed one right now and it’s pretty fun; alas there’s no crazy time travel (yet…………)

plz link all of these to me anon they sound great

are either of those time-travel ones the one where you basically cobble together a time machine using junk from your garage, for some reason?