Limerick Heist

Espionage Choice-based IF Comp 2019 8th of 82

Limerick Heist
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Author(s)	Pace Smith
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Release date(s)	01-Oct-2019
Authoring system	Twine
Platform(s)	Web browser
Language(s)	English
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Multimedia
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Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruel

How It Begins

The game opens with the mastermind explaining the plan for the heist:

A warehouse. A bare room downstairs.
A chalkboard. Four hard wooden chairs.
One mastermind: you,
addressing your crew:
four misfits who want what's not theirs.

Then, the game truly begins by flashing back to one week earlier, where the player must recruit the four crew members.

Notable Features

• Wordplay. All the text in the game, including the options menu and credits, is in limerick form.

• Characters are color-coded. The name of each character and the dialogue of that character appears in a color specific to that character.

Versions

Competition Version

• Limerick Heist (Pace Smith; 01-Oct-2019; Twine).
  • Cover art by Kelly Kingman.
  • Beta testing by Viv Dunstan, Mike Carletta, Liz Dykes, Ryan Tan, Dawn Sueoka, Freedom To Be, Amanda Ray, and Ant.
  • IFID: 9372A64A-609B-4258-9211-98FCFF17A646
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • IF Comp 2019: 8th place of 82 entries.
  • Download

Post-Comp Version

• Play

Links

General info

• Limerick Heist - at IFDB

Reviews

• Review by MathBrush.
• Review by Thomas Mack.
• Review by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
• Review by Lynda Clark.

Streams

• Stream by thomaswdyoung.