For A Change

Surreal Wilderness IF Comp 1999 2nd of 37 XYZZY Awards 1999 Best Writing XYZZY Awards 1999 Finalists - Best Game, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Setting

For A Change
Author(s)	Dan Schmidt
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	1999
Authoring system	Inform 6
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Nasty

How It Begins

The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock.

You might be any faded and silent one, with a small stone (humble and true) in hand. You lie on the resting under the High Wall which looms to the east. The High Wall creates a shade filled with sweetness, and spread under this sweetness is an expanse of fod. A mobile releases to the west towards a tower, and a guidebook lies beside you on the resting. Until the sun is brought, the shade will prevail.

Trivia and Comments

• The opening line provided the obvious inspiration for the title of Your mind is gone, it must be brought, you have some rock candy. (Lenny Pitts; 1999; TADS 2) for Speed-IF 5.5.

Versions

Version 1.02

• For A Change (Dan Schmidt; 1999; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 990930 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/9
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  • IF Comp 1999: 2nd place of 37 entries. Also winner of Miss Congeniality that year.
  • XYZZY Awards 1999: Winner of Best Writing. Finalist for Best Game, Best Individual Puzzle (stopping the flood), and Best Setting.
  • Download change.z5 from the IF Archive - The story file.
  • Play it online at ifiction.org.

Links

General info

• For a Change (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• For a Change - at IFDB.
• For a Change - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).
• For a Change - at MobyGames.

Reviews

• For A Change - at SPAG.
• For a Change - at IF Ratings.
• Review - by Paul O'Brian.
• Review - by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review (archive) - by Duncan Stevens.

Spoilers

• Transcript by ClubFloyd.
• Walkthrough and map by David Welbourn.

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