Galatea

Drama One-room 2000 IF Art Show Best of Show XYZZY Awards 2000 Best Individual NPC XYZZY Awards 2000 Finalist - Best Game, Best NPCs

Emily Short's first released interactive fiction piece, where the player interacts with Galatea, a statue of a beautiful woman in an exhibit. The "plot," as it were, revolves around getting to know Galatea's various reactions and behaviors to the different actions done by the player.

Galatea
Author(s)	Emily Short
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	2000
Authoring system	Inform
Platform(s)	Z-code
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

Notable Features

• Most of the game is a rich implementation of conversation using the ask/tell system.
• Many different endings are possible. However, endings are not split into winning and losing endings; there is no score.
• The game is an interpretation of the Roman myth of Pygmalion and Galatea.

Versions

Release 1 (Competition release)

• Galatea (Emily Short; 2000; Z-code 5).
  • Release 1 / Serial number 000324 / Inform v6.15 Library 6/7
  • IFID: ZCODE-1-000324-90B2
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • 2000 IF Art Show: entered in Portrait division; winner of Best of Show.
  • XYZZY Awards 2000: Winner of Best Individual NPC (Galatea). Finalist for Best Game and Best NPCs.
  • Download galatea.z5 from the IF Archive

Release 2

• Galatea (Emily Short; 2000; Z-code 8).
  • Release 2 / Serial number 000825 / Inform v6.15 Library 6/7
  • IFID: ZCODE-2-000825-D202
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • Download Galatea.z8 from The Internet Archive.

Release 3

• Galatea (Emily Short; 2004; Z-code 8).
  • Release 3 / Serial number 040208 / Inform v6.15 Library 6/10
  • IFID: ZCODE-3-040208-2BC1
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • Download Galatea.z8 from the IF Archive
  • Or download Galatea.zblorb from inform-fiction.org.

Release TBD

• Note: Galatea was also published as part of the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One in October 2006. See the collection's Galatea page.

Links

General info

• Galatea - Galatea homepage.
• Galatea (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Galatea - at Home of the Underdogs. (Replace this line with the new hotud game template. Look up new hotud ID numbers at http://www.hotud.org/component/jreviews/search-results/?cat=45 .).
• Galatea - at Electronic Literature Collection Volume One.
• Galatea (computer game) - at Wikipedia.
• Examples of Interactive Fiction at inform-fiction.org, where Galatea has an entry.

Reviews

• Galatea - at IF Ratings.
• Galatea - at IFReviews.org.
• IF Art Show reviews by Sam Barlow, Ian Finley, Marnie Parker, and Michael J. Roberts.
• Review by Adam Cadre.
• IF-Review review by Jonathan Rosebaugh.
• Review by Dan Shiovitz.
• SPAG review by Duncan Stevens.

Spoilers

• A glimpse into all the various assorted endings featured on release 3. (Interactive Fiction Wiki)
• ClubFloyd transcript.