Spring Thing 2012 - Sleuth by Scott Greig

This will be quick.

Unfortunately I don't have a PC.
I can't play this game.

And I'm not going to buy a Dell or something to play this game. I wouldn't have even if it was Trinity part 2. And it seems it is not.

I'm not going to judge it. Bet you saw that one coming...

(Fine JizaBoz [and not, as previously stated, JoeyJones*]. I'm on your game, now. Thanks for waiting...)






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* Looks like I can't memorize people's names. Is it a sort of syndrome?

Bah.

Spring Thing 2012 - Review: The White Bull by Jim Aikin

Here's my last review for the Sprint Thing 2012.

This game is in TADS and has given me the chance to try the new QTads interpreter for Mac. Two thumbs up! The new QTads interpreter for Mac has no icon. Two thumbs down.

Looks like we start even, here.

SPOILERS AHEAD // WARNING: I DIDN'T FINISH THIS GAME (BUT I GOT TO A FAR POINT ANYWAY)

Spring Thing 2012 - Review: More on The Egg and the Newbie

So, it looks like we have a walkthrough, now.

Nice.

SPOILERS AHEAD // WARNING: I DIDN'T FINISH THIS GAME

Spring Thing 2012 - Review: The Egg and the Newbie by Robert DeFord

I have a novel underway. I had it for quite some time, now. At least four years. After the first three, on May 2011, I thought it was ready for publishing (editors permitting).
About a month ago, I started re-reading the novel. No editor jumped out of my email inbox shouting "my god, the masterpiece" lately, so I thought I might be giving my work another chance. Pen in a hand, prints in the other, a pair of DrDre headphones and a thunderstorm recorded somewhere in the iPod, I started correcting it again.

My sheeshy-gosh.

Every single page has now so many strokes and corrections (some eventually wiping out entire "essential" passages, some devouring scenes like a famished Carcharodon) that the original print is barely visible. That made me think.

SPOILERS AHEAD // WARNING: I DIDN'T FINISH THIS GAME

Spring Thing 2012 - Review: The Rocket Man from the Sea by Janos Honkonen

SpringThing 2012 is up and running and who knows who, someone must have given me the right to judge the entrants.

Some forewords.

First, be patient with my english. I will no doubt judge the games for the eventual lack of polish and typos etc. Knowing how much my literary merits ghost in plain daylight, one would think "who dares?"
It is exactly my thought.

Second: the rating for the games will be overall and not specific to any degree. I'm not the dissectionist of IF and all I am able to do is tell if a game is worthy or unworthy of some playthroughs. The votes will range between Giant Red (meaning: wow!) and Cyanotic (meaning: wow...). You can read them as a numeric value that goes from 5 to 1. Or 4 to 0. Or whatever: it's not like they will write a book about my ratings.

Last: I judge the games according to my opinion and mine only. If you dissent, feel free to comment here or find a place where to start the conversation. I'm sure it will be funny.

Now on with Game One: The Rocket Man from the Sea, by Janos Honkonen

Just be warned:

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD /// DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME, IT WILL SURELY SPOIL YOUR EXPERIENCE

Spring Thing 2012

Spring Thing 2012 is up and running.
Four games in three different formats (zmachine/glulx, TADS, Quest), available for download and judgement.

Soon, some reviews on these pages.