Comments | dherblay: Ad Verbum

dherblay

Ad Verbum

Apr 09, 2004 02:34

If you enjoy witty wordplay, devious dilemmas, annoying adherence to alliteration and throwing your computer and/or palmpilot across the room, then you'll love Nick Montfort's Ad Verbum, a wicked little text adventure that reads like what might have resulted had Infocom ditched Douglas Adams and hired John Sladek. Set in the condemned mansion of ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

lynnmonster April 9 2004, 05:26:40 UTC

Oooh, neat! I know what game *I'm* playing, if we ever have a slow day at work ever again!

dherblay April 9 2004, 15:38:50 UTC

You will love it. It's made for you.

anadamous April 9 2004, 10:20:59 UTC

if they'd just make the screen touch-sensitive...

Diabolical! Then it wouldn't be so cheap, of course. But you're right, it would be the ultimate, and it should be the nature of man to reach for the stars.
Heh heh, you used white to hide your spoiler! You are clever.

dherblay April 9 2004, 16:41:24 UTC

I can write on my palmpilot screen and it didn't exactly break the bank. I would expect the OCR to be much more difficult, and considering some of my experiences with Graffiti 2, I'm not sure I want to break my crossword concentration to explain that I wrote an "S" rather than a "G."

As for the white spoiler, yeah, I know some tricks. What was especially annoying though was that the LJ style I and several of my friends' friends pages use, Refried Paper, ignores and just made the text small; thus the annoyingly extraneous ( Read more... )