All Hope Abandon

Religious

Fantasy

Crazy quilt

XYZZY Awards 2005
Finalist - Best Game, Best Story, Best Setting, Best NPCs,
Best Individual Puzzle, Best Individual NPC

All Hope Abandon

Author(s)	Eric Eve
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	07-May-2005
Authoring system	TADS 3
Platform(s)	TADS 3
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruelty to be determined

How It Begins

You might be anyone (probably male) attending the keynote address "Rolling Away the Misconceived Stone: Structural Semiotic Signification in Mark 16:1-8" at the 14th Annual PANTS Conference, but it's obvious to you that the speaker, Professor Wortschlachter, doesn't know what he's talking about. Your mind wanders to the attractive blonde woman sitting a few rows ahead. (FLASHBACK: You met her briefly in the breakfast queue this morning and exchanged pleasantries.) Back at the conference, you feel a twinge from your chest. Unable to leave or even speak, the twinge gets worse until you black out. That's when you remember the woman's name: Felicity Hope.

You regain awareness in a grey limbo. You are empty-handed and looking pallid and insubstantial. You trudge "north" towards a faint orange glow until you reach Hell's Gate. A demon is chiseling off the inscription "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE THAT ENTER HERE" and a notice posted on the gate says that Hell is closed for demythologization.

Notable Features

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Versions

Version 1

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 07-May-2005; TADS 3).
- Beta-testing by Nikos Chantziaras, Ian Haberkorn, Michel Nizette, Chris Odhner, Aaron Reed, John Schiff and Andreas Sewe.
- IFID wanted. (Please replace this line with a babel template.)
- XYZZY Awards 2005: Finalist for Best Game, Best Story, Best Setting, Best NPCs, Best Individual Puzzle (moving the stone (after the labyrinth)), Best Individual NPC (Agrath).
- (Originally uploaded to IF Archive as games/tads/AllHope.t3.)

Version 1.06

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 26-May-2005; TADS 3).
- IFID: TADS3-9CDA7CD389E5667065A7CF0B1B0D906F
  IFID links: IFDB.
- Download.

Version 2

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 25-Feb-2006; TADS 3).
- IFID: TADS3-08C6A5E66A99B198577E9DE2082AC55E
  IFID links: IFDB.
- Download AllHope.zip from the IF Archive.

Version 3

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 08-Jul-2007; TADS 3).
- IFID: CD03D4A8-F39B-AE69-693D-5FDDC65F6DD8
  IFID links: IFDB.
- Download AllHopeAbandonSource-r3.zip from the IF Archive - The source code (incomplete).

Version 4

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 12-May-2012; TADS 3).
- IFID: CD03D4A8-F39B-AE69-693D-5FDDC65F6DD8
  IFID links: IFDB.
- Download AllHopeWebUI.t3 from the IF Archive (TADS WebUI, not easily playable).
- Download AllHopeAbandonSource.zip from the IF Archive - The source code.

Online demo

A re-implementation of the opening part of the game in Inform 7, created to allow playing on a web page (via a Java applet) before on-line TADS-3 play was possible.

"This is a demonstration version of All Hope Abandon, which allows the opening of the game to be played through a web browser over the Internet. The full version is about five or six times longer. This demonstration version (written in Inform 7 to allow it to be played over the Internet) tries to stay as faithful as possible to the original full version (written in TADS 3), but there are a few small differences, and one or two minor features of the full game not implemented in this demonstration."

All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; 04-Jan-2007; Inform 7).
- Release 1 / Serial number 070104 / Inform 7 build 4F59 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
- IFID: 595F3562-27DA-40C1-B788-32470F619813
  IFID links: IFDB
- Download AllHopeAbandon.z8.

Links

General info

All Hope Abandon (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
All Hope Abandon - at IFDB.
All Hope Abandon: Biblical Text and Interactive Fiction (by Eric Eve) - Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 1 Number 2 (Summer 2007).

Reviews

Spoilers

Walkthrough by David Welbourn.