Luna Gardens by Justin Kim
This is an Inform game with some nice attention to presentation; the online play page is white on black, with a cool moon thing.
It’s very representational (if that’s a word); everything is symbolic. You end up in the garden of eden and can choose between paths of ephemerality or more physicality. There might be some branching in a way that’s unusual in Inform; I chose a path as a butterfly, and ended up as one. My total play time was around ten minutes, and I have a transcript below.
lunatranscript.txt (13.7 KB)
The biggest thing that made me think ‘this is cool’ is the unusual setting and characters, the richness in text that is often lacking in parser games (including my own). The most clearly unfinished area (besides the length of game itself) was the large number of items mentioned in the text but not implemented, like water.