Since I had some available time this week, I went on a lark and visited the AGS forums to see what’s cooking. One link led to another, which led me to their Pick of the Month for May 2009: Fading Shades. The blurb for the POTM also reminded me of another first-person game I’ve always meant to finish – Unbound.
I just found out earlier that the Home of the Underdogs site has been down for several weeks now because their webhosting company has filed for bankruptcy. (No wonder there’s a separate Reality-on-the-Norm forum over at the AGS forums…and they have a new site, too.)
I don’t know what to make of The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge (henceforth referred to as “Desert Bridge”). After playing through nearly all of Kyratzes’s games, with all of their grim and determined stance against war and its effects, here comes Desert Bridge – an amusing, whimsical, colorful, and serious game.
In a sense, it’s a lot more fun.
Here’s a new title off Jonas Kyratzes’s drawing board: The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge, released just 2 days ago.
Desert Bridge opening screen
The game features music by composer Helen Trevillion and colorful hand-drawn art by artist Verena Huber. I still haven’t started playing the game yet, but the screenshots on Jonas’s site look pretty promising.
The 14th Annual Interactive Fiction Comp is finally over! A huge applause to the winners of this year’s competition: Violet by Jeremy Freese, Nightfall by Eric Eve, and Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe. These games were also chosen as winners of the Miss Congeniality award in this year’s comp.
The rest of the entries and their rankings could be viewed here as well.
Congratulations to all the entrants! I hope to see these names (and more, too) again in next year’s annual comp.
