The Traveling Swordsman

Adventure Fantasy IF Comp 2006 4th of 43 XYZZY Awards 2006 Best Story XYZZY Awards 2006 Finalists - Best Game, Best Puzzles, Best Individual PC

Also known as "Tales of the Traveling Swordsman".

The Traveling Swordsman
Author(s)	Mike Snyder
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	30-Sep-2006
Authoring system	Hugo
Platform(s)	Hugo
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	optional
Graphics	optional
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruelty to be determined

Trivia and Comments

• The competition version of this game didn't display the author's name during the comp, but does display it since the end of the comp.

Versions

Competition version

• The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder as Anonymous; 30-Sep-2006; Hugo).
  • version 1.3
  • Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
  • Beta-testing by James Boyd, Craig Ross, FatBoy Fonz, Bryan Dalby, William Head, Crystal Shafer, Fabio Bittar, Vladimir V. Korablin, Jason Devlin, Blake Ballard and Dan Shiovitz.
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  • IF Comp 2006: 4th place of 43 games.
  • XYZZY Awards 2006: Winner of Best Story. Also finalist for Best Game, Best Puzzles, and Best Individual PC (PC).
  • Download tales_ts.hex from the IF Archive - Hugo executable.
  • Download TALES_TS from the IF Archive - Resource file.
  • Download read_1st.txt from the IF Archive - Additional information.
  • Download tales_ts.ini from the IF Archive - Configuration file for use by the Gargoyle interpreter.

Post-comp version

• Download tts_src.zip from the IF Archive - The source code.
• Or download tts_src.zip from the author's site.

Links

• Tales of the Traveling Swordsman - Homepage of the game.
• The Traveling Swordsman (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Tales of the Traveling Swordsman - at IFDB.

Reviews

• The Traveling Swordsman - at IFReviews.org.
• Review by Richard Bos.
• Review by Matthew Carey.
• Review by J. D. Clemens.
• Review by Riff Conner (Rifflesby).
• Review by crowheart.
• Review by Jason Devlin.
• Review (in Spanish) by dhan.
• Review by David Fletcher.
• Review by James Hall (Yuki).
• Review by Hipolito.
• Review by N. B. Horvath.
• Review by Christopher Huang (Miseri).
• Review by Robin Johnson.
• Review by Admiral Jota.
• Review and review package / rant by Valentine Kopteltsev.
• Review and The Traveling Swordsman - at SPAG, by Jimmy Maher.
• Review by Michael Martin.
• Review by Rob Menke.
• Review by James Mitchelhill.
• Review by Rob Myall.
• Review by Niz.
• Review by Andre Phillips.
• Review by quickfur.
• Review by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review by Emily Short.
• Review by Mark J. Tilford (ralphmerridew).
• Review by Urbatain. (Also longer version, in Spanish.)
• Review by Jerome C West.
• Review by David Whyld.