Rover's Day Out: Difference between revisions

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In-comp

Genre
wanted

IF Comp 2009
TBD of 24

Rover's Day Out

Author(s)	Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	01-Oct-2009
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Glulx
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruelty to be determined

How It Begins

You wake up when you alarm clock starts beeping, and get into your morning routine: feed Rover, eat breakfast, take a shower--until something unexpected happens. Meanwhile, commentary in blue shows that all is not what it seems.

Versions

Release 11

Rover's Day Out (Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman; 01-Oct-2009; Glulx).
- Release 11 / Serial number 090930 / Inform 7 build 5Z71 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
- IFID: 417B9626-8635-4451-90F5-D082E01547FA
  IFID links: IFDB
- IF Comp 2009: xth place of 24 entries.
- Download rover.gblorb from the IF Archive
- NOTE (from the IF Comp site): For those playing Rover's Day Out under Spatterlight, please don't. Please use Zoom instead, as Spatterlight appears to be mis-handling the game.

Links

General info

Rover's Day Out (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
Rover's Day Out - at IFDB.

Reviews

SPOILER WARNING: the following links contain (potentially spoilery) reviews of this game from the current IF Comp. You might prefer to wait until you've played the game before reading them, if you intend to judge the competition and don't want to be influenced.

Review by Philip Armstrong.
Review by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
Review by Renee Choba.
Review: 1 and 2 by Riff Conner.
Review by Conrad Cook.
Review by Shane Fitzgerald-Gale.
Review by Jeremy Freese.
Review by FrozenIsles Productions.
Review: 1 and 2 by Victor Gijsbers.
Review by Christopher Huang.
Review by Amanda Lange.
Review by Yoon Ha Lee.
Review by Michael Martin.
Review (in Spanish) by Mastodon - at the CAAD forum.
Review by memegarden.
Review by Wesley Osam.
Review by Jenni Polodna.
Review by Emily Short.
Review by Jake Wildstrom.

Spoilers

Download walkthrough.txt from the IF Archive. Walkthrough by the author.

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-===Spoilers===
-* {{ifarchive|games/competition2009/glulx/rover/|walkthrough.txt}}. Walkthrough by the author.
 ===Reviews===
 '''SPOILER WARNING:''' the following links contain (potentially spoilery) reviews of this game from the current IF Comp. You might prefer to wait until you've played the game before reading them, if you intend to judge the competition and don't want to be influenced.
+* [http://gamesjournal.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/text-adventurin/ Review] by [[Philip Armstrong]].
+* [http://maga-dogg.livejournal.com/353227.html Review] by [[Sam Kabo Ashwell]].
 * [http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4145#p4145 Review] by [[Renee Choba]].
+* [http://minimumsafedistance.org/post/205768431/if-comp-09-review-rovers-day-out Review: 1] and [http://minimumsafedistance.org/post/206478854/if-comp-09-addendum-rovers-day-out 2] by [[Riff Conner]].
+* [http://onewetsneaker.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/rovers-day-out-review/ Review] by [[Conrad Cook]].
+* [http://gruelove.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/if-comp-2009-rovers-day-out/ Review] by [[Shane Fitzgerald-Gale]].
+* [http://jeremyfreese.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/ifcomp-2009-rovers-day-out/ Review] by [[Jeremy Freese]].
+* [http://islemaster.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/ifcomp-2009/#RoversDay Review] by [[FrozenIsles Productions]].
+* [http://gamingphilosopher.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-competition-rovers-day-out.html Review: 1] and [http://gamingphilosopher.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-competition-rovers-day-out-second.html 2] by [[Victor Gijsbers]].
+* [http://www.ricordius.com/others/ifcomp09/rover.htm Review] by [[Christopher Huang]].
+* [http://second-truth.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-comp-2009-rovers-day-out.html Review] by [[Amanda Lange]].
+* [http://yhlee.livejournal.com/1575439.html Review] by [[Yoon Ha Lee]].
+* [http://mcmartin.livejournal.com/123005.html Review] by [[Michael Martin]].
+* [http://foro.caad.es/viewtopic.php?p=40574#p40574 Review (in Spanish)] by [[Mastodon]] - at the [[CAAD]] forum.
+* [http://expr-i0.net/meme/?p=39 Review] by [[memegarden]].
+* [http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/?p=352 Review] by [[Wesley Osam]].
+* [http://pissylittlesausages.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/roversdayou/ Review] by [[Jenni Polodna]].
+* [http://emshort.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/if-comp-2009-rovers-day-out/ Review] by [[Emily Short]].
+* [http://bishopsreviews.livejournal.com/106141.html Review] by [[Jake Wildstrom]].
+===Spoilers===
+* {{ifarchive|games/competition2009/glulx/rover/|walkthrough.txt}}. Walkthrough by the author.
 {{game stub|Genres, How It Begins, Notable Features, full version info.<br>Note: This page was originally auto-generated. Please check for errors.}}
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