Uninteractive Fiction

[Hidnook]

I finished it, but no matter how many times I played, I kept getting the bad ending.

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

It’s just like life

[malacostraca (Sarah W.)]

Is this the first fan game based on a 2024 IFComp entry?

[rovarsson]

@rileypb

It’s just like life

Life

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

Haha! My wife and her collaborator made a knitting pattern creation app that will make patterns based on Conway’s Life: https://stitchwizard.app/

It, fortunately, does not have a lose state.

[Exemptus]

My geekometer just maxed out.

[Piergiorgio_d_errico]

anyway, I feel that as intentionally the worst of the lot, is on the verge of failing, because honestly I feel is now a serious candidate for the Golden Banana…

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[Lionstooth]

What if… what if the discussion that’s been generated by this game is the interactive component? What if the real game is the f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ complaints we made along the way?

whoa dude

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

I adapted the game to parser format: Phil Riley - UninteractiveFiction by Leah Thargic

[Hidnook]

Phil Riley with the Uninteractive Fiction adaptations! You’re on a roll!

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

I’m a bit surprised to see that nobody has commented on the a capella choral “sad trombone” sound effect that plays when you click the “Play” link.

It won’t replay if you refresh the page on the “You lose” page. I’ve attached the MP3 for your convenience and listening pleasure.

sad-trombone.mp3.zip (133.9 KB)

People are calling this game “bad,” but IMO, the game is a short joke, and, in my opinion, it succeeds. It’s genuinely funny, which is why we can enjoy laughing about it here.

It’s absolutely worth ten seconds of your time to play it, especially combined with the author-provided PDF walkthrough.

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

@dfabulich

I’m a bit surprised to see that nobody has commented on the a capella choral “sad trombone” sound effect that plays when you click the “Play” link.

*ahem*

Mike Russo's IF Comp 2024 Reviews

Uninteractive Fiction, by Leah Thargic I was all set to rate this troll game a 1. Look, the question of what does and doesn’t count as interactive fiction is almost as old as I am at this point (that is to say, it’s old), and I at least find it singularly uninteresting; likewise, the questions of “what if the player’s desire to see all the game’s content is at odds with the diegetic incentives of the characters” and “does choice-based IF actually need choices” are pretty hoary. There’s room t…

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

@dfabulich

I’ve attached the MP3 for your convenience and listening pleasure.

Curious that there is no MP3 downloaded by the page, just base 64 encoded audio. And yet here you are with an MP3. Suspicious.

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

I hope you’re not suspicious that I authored the game! I assure you I didn’t author the game or communicate with the author.

I just went into Chrome Dev Tools, found the <audio> element, right-clicked on its data: URL, and clicked “Open in new tab.” Chrome played the sound with built-in audio player controls. I clicked the “…” menu, clicked “Download,” zipped up the MP3 file, and posted it here.

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

No I was not really suspicious.