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{{game infobox|title=Lawn of Love|image=[[Image:Lawn of Love small art.jpg]]|author=[[Santoonie Corporation]]|publisher=n/a|released=30-Sep-2006|authsystem=[[TADS 2]]|platform=[[TADS 2]]|language=English|license=[[Freeware]]|color=optional|graphics=optional|sound=optional|cruelty=Cruel}}

==How It Begins==
You are a 14 year old named Todd Gack*, wearing a t-shirt. You wake up in a bed in an upstairs bedroom in your grandparents' farmhouse to the sound of music. Through the window, you see your grandpa drive up the gravel driveway in his old Ford. Your jeans are on the desk and your boots are on the floor. It's summer, and all you're interested in right now is finding out where that music came from.

''(*The PC's name isn't revealed at first, but it's not a puzzle or secret.)''

==Notable Features==
* When examining some objects, a picture is displayed without any text description. The response to the CREDITS command is also just a picture, although there is text in it.
* When attempting to travel in an invalid direction, a standard error sound-effect is played instead of a text message like "You can't go that way."
* The game includes a [[hunger puzzle|hunger]] [[daemon]]; you'll get hungry every 400 turns. Strangely, eating the plate of eggs doesn't satisfy your hunger.
* Conversation is [[ask-tell]], but very few topics are understood by the NPCs.
* Some sloppiness in the coding. The initial room has no name, exits from locations are often omitted, some room descriptions are "painted on", the grandmother is not listed in the room she's in. The game earns a "Cruel" rating because of an [[unexitable room bug]].
* The code uses a [[score]]. The maximum score is 100. There is no [[status bar]].

==Trivia and Comments==
* The name "Þe|v¥n" on the kitchen table is a reference to ''[[Delvyn]]'' ([[Santoonie Corporation]]; 2003; TADS 2).

==Versions==
===Competition version (version v1.0)===
* ''Lawn of Love'' ([[Santoonie Corporation]]; 30-Sep-2006; [[TADS 2]]).
** [[IF Comp 2006]]: 35th place of 43 games.
** {{ifarchive|games/competition2006/tads2/lawn/|Lawn%20of%20Love.gam}}.

==Links==
* {{baf game|Lawn of Love|2976}}.
* {{ifdb game|Lawn of Love|srjvp4nnl9eqxmqt}}.

===Reviews===
* {{IFRO game|Lawn of Love|3681}}.
* [http://openfonttag.blogspot.com/2006/11/interactive-fiction-competition-06.html Review] by [[Matthew Carey]].
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/2f00a604e782bf56 Review] by [[J. D. Clemens]].
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/0708dc744fd7b650 Review] by [[Riff Conner]] (Rifflesby).
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/766a5d24e0c61c98 Review] by [[crowheart]].
* [http://www.bubblycloud.com/ifcomp2006/#lol Review] by [[David Fletcher]].
* [http://www.ricordius.com/others/ifcomp06.htm Review] by [[Christopher Huang]] (Miseri).
* [http://grunk.org/comments06.txt Review] by [[Admiral Jota]].
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/cefa9e0cde9cf798 Review] by [[Valentine Kopteltsev]].
* [http://occplayer.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/some-2006-if-comp-reviews/ Review] by [[Arnel Legaspi]].
* [http://maher.filfre.net/if/comp06.html#love Review] by [[Jimmy Maher]].
* [http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~mcmartin/if/reviews/review06.html Review] by [[Michael Martin]].
* [http://the-wabe.com/if-comp-2006/#lawn Review] by [[Rob Menke]].
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/fd8c2d629816f52d Review] by [[James Mitchelhill]].
* [http://snowblood.blogspot.com/2006/11/interactive-fiction-competition-2006.html Review] by [[Niz]].
* [http://www.intfiction.org/misc/qf_comp06.txt Review] by [[quickfur]].
* [http://inky.org/if/comp06.html#lawn Review] by [[Dan Shiovitz]].
* [http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/c6.txt Review] by [[Emily Short]].
* [http://www.sidneymerk.com/comp06/lawn.shtml Review] by [[Mike Snyder]].
* [http://ralphmerridew.livejournal.com/323.html Review] by [[Mark J. Tilford]] (ralphmerridew).
* [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.int-fiction/msg/bfcd90732833371f Review] by [[Urbatain]]. (Also [http://spac.caad.es/1/spac48.htm#articulos longer version, in Spanish].)
* [http://www.intfiction.org/misc/jcw_comp06.txt Review] by [[Jerome C West]].
* [http://ultranine.novahost.org/shadowvault/ifcomp2006.htm Review] by [[David Whyld]].

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