Freeware Game Pick: Walker and Silhouette (C.E.J. Pacian)
Walker and Silhouette is a short interactive fiction game about a pair of detectives named Nate and Ivy, working together to solve a case for the Oldchester Criminal Investigation Department. The interface is an easy one to use, all a user has to do is to click on a highlighted keyword to investigate further or progress the story forward. Occasionally certain words like leave, think and help have to be typed in, but these situations rarely occur and wouldn't cause too much of an inconvenience to any player.
The writing on display is good, the storyline is intriguing, and there are some clever puzzles designed just for the single keyword system. A windows executable is included with the Windows version, while Linux and Mac users can play the game by using a TADS interpreter to run the TADS 3 game file. (Mac/Win/Linux, 1.60MB)
Comments
C. E. J. Pacian is my favorite (fairly) new IF author. I'm excited to try it, even if it is all clicky.
Posted by: Valzi | December 10, 2009 7:43 AM
This is great!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 10, 2009 7:53 AM
Start rating it, players! http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=u0fzm0lxlt9vb4fi
(and add other info to the database)
Posted by: Valzi | December 10, 2009 8:45 AM
i got stuck at the part where you explain the murder, i knew the answer but wasnt sure how to input it? tried "explain X" "say X" "tell Nate X" etc but nothing worked.
Posted by: guy | December 11, 2009 2:55 PM
guy: Just type 'explain' by itself. There's no need to try and build phrases - each highlighted word is its own command.
Posted by: Pacian | December 13, 2009 10:42 AM