TIGSaga

Surreal Comedy Choice-based Text the Halls 3rd of 10

TIGSaga
Author(s)	Terry, Kinten, Akhel, Xander, Haowan, Shinygerbil, and #tigIRC
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	26-Dec-2007
Authoring system	HTML
Platform(s)	Web browser
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	optional ASCII art
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Polite

How It Begins

The player awakens on a tiled floor, surrounded by bottles of "60 proof TigerSauce", naked except for a top hat placed on their genitals and a monocle "surgically attached" to their face. As they begin to fully awake, they realize that their mouth is full of sand, and spit it out violently. They then begin to speak in a caricature of British English, which is evidently not their normal fashion of speech. To quote the game itself:

"Your mouth moves but the words coming out seem foreign. What is going on? Why are you talking so strange?"

They are then given the choice to:

"[Try to get up]

[Roll around on the floor]

[Get back to sleep]

[Touch yourself]

[Take the top hat]"

Notable Features

The game is mainly a collection of TIGSource in-jokes(most notably the monocle, top hat, and TigerSauce), but has surreal content of its own. For example:

"The alarm is still active. Its baritone rasping burrows deep into your mind as you stare at the spiky letters etched into the forgiving flesh of the melon. The jagged lines that make up the letters appear to be coalescing. Dismissing the chances of the impossibly small probability of the vision you see before you being caused by a combination of alcohol withdrawal, damaged optical systems, concussion, and LSD as unlikely, you begin to wonder who (or... what) might have carved this eldritch alarm-powered pictogram."

The game dispenses with traditional IF commands, instead using multiple choices in each situation. The choices rarely make any logical sense, and were, as the authors have said, written on the spur of the moment.

The game is an HTML document, so it is possible for the player to retrace their steps if they lose.

TIGSaga was written for the blog TIGSource's first IF competition.

Versions

Release TBD

• TIGSaga (Terry, Kinten, Akhel, Xander, Haowan, Shinygerbil, and #tigIRC); 26-Dec-2007; Web browser). Written in HTML.
  • Text the Halls: 3rd place of 10 entries.
  • Play it online.

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Links

General info

• Forum thread - at TIGSource.
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Reviews

• [1] - by Jason Dyer.

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