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<table style="width:100%;margin-bottom:1em;clear:both"><tr><td>{{school}} {{sci-fi}}</td></tr> {{work infobox|title=Ditch Day Drifter|image=[[Image:Ditch day drifter cover art.jpeg|cover art|200px]]|author=[[Michael J. Roberts]]|released=1990|authsystem=[[TADS 2]] and [[Inform 6]]|platform=[[TADS 2]]|language=English and [[Russian]]|license=[[Freeware]]|color=none|graphics=none|sound=none|cruelty=Merciful}}

==How It Begins==
You are an undergraduate Caltech student, and the campus is holding the annual Ditch Day. Ditch Day is an event where senior students leave behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to break into the senior's rooms.

==Notable Features==
* Ditch Day Drifter is the original TADS sample game, but is also a fully fleshed-out interactive fiction game.
* The game is highly [[linear]]. It contains several easy, well-planned puzzles; however, solving some of the more-or-less independent puzzles does not necessarily advance the plot.
* Though none of the NPCs in the game are conversational, their behavior is well-developed.
* The protagonist's story continues into another TADS game, [[Deep Space Drifter]], though the latter is not necessarily its sequel.
* The game contains references to the Infocom game [[Planetfall]].

==Versions==
===Release 1.0===
* ''Ditch Day Drifter'' ([[Michael J. Roberts]]; [[TADS 2]]).
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** {{ifarchive|games/tads|ditchday.zip}}. Contains DITCH.GAM.

===Russian translation===
* ''Ditch Day Drifter'' (Michael J. Roberts; TADS 2; [[Russian]]).
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** {{ifarchive|games/tads/russian|ditchr.zip}}. ditchr.gam
** {{ifarchive|games/pc/russian|ditchrexe.zip}}. For MS-Windows

===Inform 6 port===
* ''Ditch Day Drifter'' (Michael J. Roberts).
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==Links==
* {{ifdb game|Ditch Day Drifter|2ungxx2lyy5sob4g}}.
* {{baf game|Ditch Day Drifter|65}}.

===Reviews===
* {{spag review|d|ditch}}

===Spoilers===
* {{ifarchive|mapping-tools/maps|ditchday_map.txt}}. Note about maps.
* {{ifarchive|mapping-tools/maps|ditchday_map_wide.gmp}}. Map (wide) in GUEmap format.
* {{ifarchive|mapping-tools/maps|ditchday_map_printer.gmp}}. Map (printer) in GUEmap format.
* {{ifarchive|mapping-tools/maps|ditch_maps_ps.zip}}. Maps in Postscript format.
* {{ifarchive|mapping-tools/maps|ditch_maps_dia.zip}}. Maps in Dia format.
* {{ifarchive|solutions|ditchday.step}}. Walkthrough.
* {{ifarchive|games/source/inform|ditch.inf}}. Inform 6 port source code.
* {{ifarchive|games/source/inform|iditchs-html.zip}}. Inform 6 port source code. Annotated HTML version
* {{ifarchive|games/source/inform|iditchs.zip}}. Inform 6 port source code.
* [http://plover.net/~davidw/sol/d/ditch90.html Walkthrough and maps] by [[David Welbourn]].

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