Looking for a game. Can you guys help me?

Playing Game Hints
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It’s funny – after searching for this game on Baf’s, the IFDB, SPAG, and every other IF resource imaginable, I’m beginning to think I might have dreamed the whole damn thing up. In case I didn’t, do anyone of you know a game which opens similarly to Baluthar (in a hut of some kind) and features a lamb that follows you around and a cave that is actually the mouth of some enormous monster, which you must pass through to finish the rest of the game? Does this ring any bells or did I make it all up?

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You want the TADS game Chancellor. Great choice it is, too. You’ll be sure to have fun.

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OK, here’s something that’s been bothering me and this seems like not a bad thread for it.

You know this year’s IFcomp game, Pen and Paint? I found the basic environment of that game (a studio containing a magical painting, as an anchor for a supernatural narrative involving your wife) reminded me very much of another game I have at least tried (probably not completed) that begins with those same elements, but I cannot remember what that game was. I just know I have seen that scenario before, that ‘you start off thinking about your wife in your house which happens to contain a magically transformative/teleportive painting’ scenario (I think the painting was full of leaves in the older game - or at least the leaf was a big motif). And it wasn’t that long ago, either. Probably just last year or something. I just have a very poor memory for games which for whatever reason (maybe I got distracted, etc.) I only played briefly.

So, I have been waiting to read someone say on here, ‘Pen and Paint is somewhat derivative of X’ but it hasn’t happened that I have noticed.

What is X?

Paul.

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Paul, would you perhaps be thinking of Blue Lacuna?

-Kevin

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The Primrose Path is the other big painting-teleport game that comes to mind.

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I don’t recall the name ‘Primrose Path’. Seeing people talk about it on here I got the feeling that I had tried Blue Lacuna before, so that’s probably it, but I guess I must have abandoned it rather quickly. It’s one of the first things on my list to try again though, so I’ll know if that’s it pretty soon…

Thanks!

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Thanks! Yes, that’s it. I guess it wasn’t showing up on IFDB because the category was Surreal/Fantasy, so a search for either genre alone wouldn’t work.