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A small game with a cut-off story about time travel, June 21, 2016by MathBrush This game came in last place the year it came in IFCOMP because the author revealed that it was incomplete. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Less Awful Than You Might Think, November 17, 2013by matt w (Matt Weiner) (Burlington, VT) This is a Crap Underimplemented Game. That's pretty much its genre. There's never a description where "You see nothing special about the X" will do, and you're lucky to get that. This isn't a good thing; it necessarily limits immersion, occasionally gets in the way of understanding what's going on, and breaks any trust in the author one might have thought of having. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Interesting premise, but unfinished and quite rough, October 22, 2013by streever (America) The game that exists isn't bad: there is an interesting premise with the buttons/switch/time travel concept, but unfortunately it seems to lack any resolution or ending. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Unfinished and should not have been released, April 14, 2013The Chronicler has a great title, and an author whose e-mail address ends in alum.mit.edu, and some of the initial writing is decent, but upon actually playing the game, I started to see gaps in its implementation. I then checked out the ABOUT text: Chronicler is a short game for the Interactive Fiction Competition 2010. Unfortunately, due to time constraints it's only half finished, or perhaps three-quarters. I can only hope that you'll find some amusement from the manipulations of objects it affords, while apologizing for the shortness of the experience.And that was when I quit. Thanks for wasting a few minutes of my evening, Mr. Evans. You might have gotten higher than a 1 had you not actually admitted that you knew (you knew!) that what you were entering wasn't comp worthy. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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An unfinished game, November 28, 2010It’s not a good sign that the help says: “Unfortunately, due to time constraints it’s only half finished, or perhaps three-quarters. I can only hope that you’ll find some amusement from the manipulations of objects it affords, while apologizing for the shortness of the experience.” It has a standard sci-fi type of setting, but I never mind that, being a sci-fi fan. However, after not having much motivation, seeing various unimplemented things (scenery, verbs), and getting an error, I kind of lost interest. I really tried to force myself to play a little more, but I was unable. Given all the marks against it, I just couldn’t care about the game and certainly didn’t want to invest any energy in it. Maybe I didn’t give the game a fair shake, but if it starts out admitting that it’s unfinished, why should I put in the effort? Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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