Sentencing Mr Liddell: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 00:37, 3 March 2021

Surreal

IF Comp 2011
19th of 38

XYZZY Awards 2011
Finalist - Best Individual PC

Sentencing Mr Liddell

{{{image2}}}
Author(s)	I-K. Huuhtanen
Publisher(s)	{{{publisher}}}
Release date(s)	01-Oct-2011
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Glulx
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	{{{color}}}
Graphics	{{{graphics}}}
Sound/Music	{{{sound}}}
Ratings
Cruelty scale	{{{{{cruelty}}}}}

How It Begins

You are Alistair Liddell, the owner of the hat shop founded by your father forty years ago and where you employ your Uncle Marty and Cousin Dermot. But now it's closing time and you promised to take Catherine and your two-year old daughter Liz to the funfair. Now where is the ticket?

Notable Features

This game is heavily inspired by Alice in Wonderland and several of the characters are based on characters from the book.
Much of the game has a surreal, dream-like quality to it.
Multiple endings.

Versions

Release 1

Sentencing Mr Liddell (I-K. Huuhtanen; 01-Oct-2011; Glulx).
- Release 1 / Serial number 111001 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib 6/12N)
- IFID: 177C9E39-83D6-4E5B-95C9-BF51572EF50D
  IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
- IF Comp 2011: 19th place of 38 entries.
- XYZZY Awards 2011: Finalist, Best Individual PC (Alistair Liddell).
- Download sentencing.gblorb from the IF Archive.
- Play it online.

Links

General info

Sentencing Mr Liddell - at IFDB.
Sentencing Mr Liddell - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

Review: 1 and 2 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
Review (in German) by Martin Barth.
Review by George Dorn.
Review by David Fletcher.
Review by Victor Gijsbers.
Review by Christopher Huang.
Review by Amanda Lange.
Review by Yoon Ha Lee.
Review by Michael Martin.
Review by Carl Muckenhoupt.
XYZZY Review for "Best Individual PC" by Marius Müller.
Review by Steven Odhner.
Review by Emily Short.
Review by Matt Weiner.
Review by Jake Wildstrom.

Spoilers

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<table style="width:100%;margin-bottom:1em;clear:both"><tr><td>{{genre wanted}} {{ifcnth|2011|19th of 38}} {{xaf|2011|Best Individual PC}} </td></tr></table>
+<table style="width:100%;margin-bottom:1em;clear:both"><tr><td>{{surreal}} {{ifcnth|2011|19th of 38}} {{xaf|2011|Best Individual PC}} </td></tr></table>
-{{game infobox|title=Sentencing Mr Liddell|image=[[Image:Sentencing Mr Liddell small cover.jpg]]|author=[[I-K. Huuhtanen]]|publisher=n/a|released=01-Oct-2011|authsystem=[[Inform 7]]|platform=[[Glulx]]|language=English|license=Freeware|color=TBD|graphics=TBD|sound=TBD|cruelty=TBD}}
+{{work infobox|title=Sentencing Mr Liddell|image=[[Image:Sentencing Mr Liddell cover.jpg|250px]]|author=[[I-K. Huuhtanen]]|released=01-Oct-2011|authsystem=[[Inform 7]]|platform=[[Glulx]]|language=English|license=Freeware}}
 ==How It Begins==
-{{hib wanted}}
+You are Alistair Liddell, the owner of the hat shop founded by your father forty years ago and where you employ your Uncle Marty and Cousin Dermot. But now it's closing time and you promised to take Catherine and your two-year old daughter Liz to the funfair. Now where is the ticket?
+==Notable Features==
+* This game is heavily inspired by <cite>Alice in Wonderland</cite> and several of the characters are based on characters from the book.
+* Much of the game has a surreal, dream-like quality to it.
+* Multiple endings.
 ==Versions==
@@ Line 22: / Line 27: @@
 ===Reviews===
-* [http://maga-dogg.livejournal.com/454769.html Review: 1] and [http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=eiwuqijxvrvjy1qy&review=15309 2] by [[Sam Kabo Ashwell]].
+* [http://maga-dogg.livejournal.com/454769.html Review: 1] and [http://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=eiwuqijxvrvjy1qy&review=15309 2] by [[Sam Kabo Ashwell]].
 * [http://ifwizz.de/sentencing-mr-liddell-(2011-en).html?ua=review_75#review_75 Review (in German)] by [[Martin Barth]].
 * [http://georgedorn.livejournal.com/175885.html Review] by [[George Dorn]].
 * [http://www.bubblycloud.com/ifcomp2011/#sentencing Review] by [[David Fletcher]].
-* [http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=eiwuqijxvrvjy1qy&review=15422 Review] by [[Victor Gijsbers]].
+* [http://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=eiwuqijxvrvjy1qy&review=15422 Review] by [[Victor Gijsbers]].
 * [http://www.ricordius.com/others/ifcomp11/sentencing.htm Review] by [[Christopher Huang]].
 * [http://second-truth.blogspot.com/2011/10/if-comp-2011-sentencing-mr-liddell.html Review] by [[Amanda Lange]].
@@ Line 40: / Line 45: @@
 ===Spoilers===
 * [[ClubFloyd]] [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/intfic_clubfloyd_20121205.html transcript].
+* [http://plover.net/~davidw/sol/s/sente11.html Walkthrough and maps] by [[David Welbourn]].
-{{game stub|Genres, How It Begins, Notable Features, full version info.<br>Note: This page was originally auto-generated. Please check for errors.}}
+[[Category:Works]] [[Category:Works in 2011]] [[Category:Glulx works]] [[Category:IF Comp works]] [[Category:Inform 7 works]]
-[[Category:Games]] [[Category:Games in 2011]] [[Category:Glulx works]] [[Category:IF Comp games]] [[Category:Inform 7 games]]