Blue Lacuna

Drama Adventure Island Spring Thing 2008 3rd of 3

XYZZY Awards 2009 Best Game, Best Story, Best Setting, Best Use of Medium XYZZY Awards 2009 Finalist - Best NPCs and Best Individual NPC

Blue Lacuna
Author(s)	Aaron A. Reed
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)	preview: 02-Apr-2008 full: 26-Jan-2009
Authoring system	Inform 7
Platform(s)	Glulx
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Creative Commons
Multimedia
Color effects	optional
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

Notable Features

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Versions

Release 1 (Competition release)

• Blue Lacuna: Sneak Preview (Aaron A. Reed; 02-Apr-2008; Glulx).
  • Beta-testing by Basti, Emily Boegheim, George Oliver, HenryMikel, James Jolley, Jeremy Rishe, Justin Lowmaster, Katzy, Lynnutte, Mario Carneiro, Poster, Sharon Rishe, and Victor Gijsbers.
  • Release 1 / Serial number 080402 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/11N)
  • IFID: 3c25abf2-c0ea-4388-a69d-b38b87577b13
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • Spring Thing 2008: 3rd place of 3 games.
  • Download bl-preview-1.zip from the comp site.
  • Or Download BlueLacuna.zip from the IF Archive

Release 1 (Full version)

• Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; 26-Jan-2009; Glulx).
  • Beta-testing by Alexei Othenin-Girard, Basti, Depresiv, Doug Egan, Emily Boegheim, George Oliver, HenryMikel, James Jolley, Jeremy Rishe, Justin Lowmaster, katzy, Lynnutte, Mario Carneiro, Neale, Scott Maddix, Sharon Rishe, Stephanie Camus, and Victor Gijsbers.
  • Release 1 / Serial number 090126 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib 6/12N)
  • IFID: 3C25ABF2-C0EA-4388-A69D-B38B87577B13
    IFID links: IFDB, IFDB cover
  • XYZZY Awards 2009: Winner of four awards: Best Game, Best Story, Best Writing (tie), and Best Use of Medium. Was also a finalist for Best NPCs and Best Individual NPC (Progue).
  • Visit the author's download page for downloads of this game.

The full version of Blue Lacuna was released in tandem with a promotional web-experience called "blueful", where one followed a trail of links through several popular websites. See the Links section below for more about "blueful".

Links

General info

• Official Website & Hints
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• Blue Lacuna - at IFDB.
• Blue Lacuna - at ifwizz interactive fiction (in German).
• Blue Lacuna is officially released! - Announcement on author's blog; January 28, 2009. Quote: "Blue Lacuna technically went live on Monday morning when blueful launched."
• Spotlight on Aaron Reed's Blue Lacuna - SPAG #54, March 31, 2009.
• Blue Lacuna Source Code - Aaron announces the release of the game's source code on August 14, 2010.

The "blueful" promotion

• blueful.com - blueful homepage.
• blueful - Announcement on author's blog; January 26, 2009.
• Blueful - Announcement on Christopher Armstrong's blog; January 26, 2009.
• brasslantern: Aaron Reed launches prelude to Blue Lacuna - Announcement by brasslantern via Twitter; January 26, 2009.
• blueful - Announcement on Mike Rubin's blog; January 27, 2009.

Reviews

See also: reactions and quotes.

• Review at Jay is Games by Karl.
• Review: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 by Carl Muckenhoupt.
• Review at IF-Review - by Dan Shiovitz.
• Review at Play This Thing!, review at GameSetWatch, and blog review (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) - by Emily Short.

Spoilers

• Blue Lacuna: An Interactive Novel - The Source. From this page, you may view online or download the source code. The PDF version runs to 736 pages.
• Blue Lacuna Transcripts Analyzed - Newbies playing this game at IndieCade 2010.