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<table style="width:100%;margin-bottom:1em;clear:both"><tr><td>{{mystery}} {{xaf6|2009|Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, Best Individual PC}} </td></tr></table>

{{game infobox|title=Make It Good|image=[[Image:Make It Good small cover.jpeg]]|author=[[Jon Ingold]]|publisher=n/a|released=13-Apr-2009|authsystem=[[Inform 6]]|platform=[[Z-code]] 8|language=English|license=Freeware|color=TBD|graphics=TBD|sound=none|cruelty=Tough}}

==How It Begins==
You are a police detective, sitting in your car outside the scene of a murder, just you and a bottle of whiskey. You smell of booze. Word is, this is your last chance to solve a major crime and keep your job. When you go to knock on the door, leave the bottle in the car.

==Notable Features==
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==Trivia and Comments==
* In the game ''[[Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me]]'' ([[Michael J. Sousa]] and [[Jon Ingold]]; 2002; TADS 2), ''Make It Good'' is mentioned as another game that Jon was working on in an email from Mike to Jon, dated 21 Nov 2001, showing that ''Make It Good'' was in development for at least eight years. 

==Versions==
===Release 1===
* ''Make It Good'' ([[Jon Ingold]]; 13-Apr-2009; [[Z-code]] 8).
** Release 1 / Serial number 090413 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10
** {{babel|ifid=ZCODE-1-090413-B227|cover=yes}}
** [[XYZZY Awards 2009]]: Finalist in six categories: Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, and Best Individual PC (the detective).
** Download <tt>[http://www.archimedes.plus.com/makegood.z8 makegood.z8]</tt> from the author's site.

==Links==
===General info===
* [http://www.archimedes.plus.com/ Homepage].
* {{ifdb game|Make It Good|jdrbw1htq4ah8q57}}.
* {{ifwizz|Make It Good|make-it-good-(2009-en)}}.

===Reviews===
* [http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/09/make_it_good.php Review] by [[JohnB]] - at [[Jay is Games]].
* [http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/backissues/spag55.html#good Review] by [[David Monath]] - in [[SPAG]].
* [http://www.wurb.com/stack/archives/622 Review: 1], [http://www.wurb.com/stack/archives/623 2], and [http://www.wurb.com/stack/archives/624 3] by [[Carl Muckenhoupt]].
* [http://shmupschematics.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/make-it-good/ Review] by [[prolixpostoffice]]. Caution: spoilery!
* {{link|deadurl=http://playthisthing.com/make-it-good|archive=http://web.archive.org/web/20120110011907/http://playthisthing.com/make-it-good|Review}} by [[Emily Short]] - at [[Play This Thing!]]

===Spoilers===
* [https://www.spagmag.org/issue-61/creating-inverting-making-good-the-detective-genre/ SPAG Specifics analysis] in [[SPAG]] #61 by [[Mark Ricard]] (02-Jan-2013).

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