Splashdown

Comedy Science Fiction Outer space IF Comp 2004 8th of 36

Splashdown
Author(s)	Paul J. Furio
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	01-Oct-2004
Authoring system	Inform 6
Platform(s)	Z-code 5
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

The player is an interstellar colonist awoken from cryosleep when the colony ship suffers an unforseen catastrophy. A robot sidekick, named Spider, arrives early in the game to assist the player and offer comic relief.

Notable Features

• A science-fiction comedy-adventure, Splashdown is heavily inspired by Planetfall (Steve Meretzky, publisher: Infocom; 1983; Z-code).
• Features an Adobe Acrobat manual that is reminiscent of the original Infocom documentation, including a parody interstellar travel brochure.

This section is a stub. You can help by adding to it.

Versions

Competition Release

• Splashdown (Paul J. Furio; 01-Oct-2004; Z-code 5).
  • Beta-testing by Mary McDonagh, Eli Curtz, Wes Cumberland, Peter Chapman, Anna Chan, Douglas Taylor, and L00pback.
  • Release 1 / Serial number 040926 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11
  • IFID wanted. (Please replace this line with a babel template.)
  • IF Comp 2004: 8th place of 36 entries.

This section is a stub. You can help by adding to it.

Links

General info

• The official Splashdown website.
• Splashdown (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Splashdown - at IFDB.
• Splashdown - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).

Reviews

• Splashdown - at IF Ratings.
• Review - by Paul O'Brian.
• Review - by Dan Shiovitz.