Scarlet Portrait Parlor

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Scarlet Portrait Parlor
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Author(s)	Mathbrush
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Release date(s)	2020
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Glulx
Language(s)	English
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How It Begins

You are someone carrying a heavy guilt. Darkness has fallen, and you stand beside a loom in the scarlet portrait parlor.

Notable Features

• Unusually, the player is meant to read the source code as poetry instead of playing the game itself. However, the game is playable and has an ending.
• This game is very short.

Versions

Release 1

• Scarlet Portrait Parlor (Mathbrush as "Prismatik"; 2020; Glulx).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 200203 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.34 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: CF59560F-C8FB-4C1C-9380-711F42DE6C19
    IFID links: IFDB, Babel metadata, Babel download. (Note: Babel services at IF Archive are not yet available.)
  • Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction: 3rd place for Event One (8 points out of 10.).
  • Play it online.
  • Download prismatik1.gblorb from the Expo. The story file.

Links

General info

• Scarlet Portrait Parlor - at IFDB.

Spoilers

• Source text.
• Walkthrough and map by David Welbourn.