Some Ectocomp reviews (first French, then spanish, then english)

Competitions
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Thanks for the review! Just a brief correction, the game was written in Dendry, not Choicescript (it is in fact the 5th game written in dendry).

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82

Thanks, I’ve fixed it both here and on IFDB!

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You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer by Geoffrey Golden

This game has a pretty simple concept and executes it well. You are a zombie who has just completed a tasty meal of brains, and so you write a yelp review.

You pick the number of stars, describe its connection with past meals, discuss how you approached the entree/victim, etc. It’s all pretty brief, but I didn’t see any bugs, and it was descriptive and funny.

Overall, a nice note to end playing the ectocomp games on.

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Buggy by Mathbrush

Whew, not this guy. I’ve tested all of his games and not once has he credited me as a beta tester, and I really can’t stomach playing his games once they’re published. I just read other people’s reviews. Given my past experience and feelings for this guy, I’m going to skip rating this game on IFDB or judging it in Ectocomp; I just can’t be objective.

The game itself seems broken. All the scenery is takable, and most of the text is standard responses, except the author even manages to get those right. The story is incoherent (Albert Einstein appears? Force ghosts?) and there are embarrassing errors like apostrophes rendered as quotations or ‘nothing’ being an item you can drop. It also completely overestimates how long an average person can hold the moon.

The quality of this game stuck out to me as much lower than the other parser games in this comp. Like usual, the author strikes me as unimaginative; I’ve never tested one of his games without thinking ‘I could easily have made this myself.’ Try this one if you want, but be prepared to be disappointed.

Edit: That should be all the games! If I missed any, let me know!

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Thank you for the review, and I’m glad you enjoyed the game! I’m also glad a couple people appreciated the Ann Radcliffe shoutout, because I felt like I was being a little on-the-nose there – I just couldn’t resist.

I’m glad the mechanism hit the right spot for you; I think it ended up being too opaque for a lot of players.

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