Some Introcomp 2020 Reviews

[severedhand]

I’m cross-linking this topic to another where the new gent said he got futzed because a game he tried did not understand TALK TO. The TALK TO / (other communication) binary seems to be at least partially responsible for this split on getting through Navigatio.

NEWBIE needs a bit of general help

I’m all about TALK TO! The ideal is that a game should probably tell you, or point you, towards the communication method it wants as soon as you try to communicate, or before. But there’s probably a great chunk of Inform-made games from what I’ll vaguely refer to as “the middle times” that just assume, and rely on, ‘ask X about’, ‘tell X about’. In its raw form, that’s my least favourite communication engine. -Wade

I know his game was from the 80s, but I think the upshot is - players are best off knowing of both. But ever more bester ofer is games indicating which they want.

-Wade