Spider And Web

Espionage Science Fiction Building XYZZY Awards 1998 Best Game, Best Puzzles, Best Individual NPC, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Use of Medium

XYZZY Awards 1998 Finalist - Best Individual PC, Best Setting, Best Story, Best Writing

Spider And Web
Author(s)	Andrew Plotkin
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	1998
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	Tough

How It Begins

You have travelled to an unidentified country; the opening paragraph describes its beautiful scenery. Currently, however, you're in a near-featureless dead-end alley, facing a plain metal door. The PC is ambiguous, and carrying nothing of importance.

Notable Features

• Heavy and innovative use of flashback, frame story and unreliable narrator.
• Intentionally employs knowledge conflict for dramatic effect.

Trivia and Comments

• This game inspired the titles and structures of the following games:
  • Chicken and Egg (Adam Thornton; 1998; Z-code).
  • Spyder and Jeb (Neil deMause; 1998; TADS 2).
  • Tanker and Webb (Andrew Frederiksen; 1999; Z-code).

Versions

Release 4

• Spider And Web (Andrew Plotkin; 1998; Z-code 5).
  • Release 4 / Serial number 980226 / Inform v6.14
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  • XYZZY Awards 1998: Winner of Best Game, Best Puzzles, Best Individual NPC (the interrogator), Best Individual Puzzle (getting out of the chair), Best Use of Medium. Finalist for Best Individual PC (the agent), Best Setting, Best Story, Best Writing.

Russian translation

• Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin, translator: Всеволод Зубарев; 2009; Z-code 8; Russian).
  • Download.
  • Play online.

Links

General info

• Spider and Web (archived) - at Baf's Guide.

Reviews

• Spider and Web - at IF Ratings.
• Review by Mathbrush.

Spoilers

• Walkthrough at the IF Archive.
• SPAG #22 - Contains a SPAG Specifics analysis by Adrian Chung.
• ClubFloyd transcript.
• Author commentary.

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