Text narrative game
June 16, 2011 8:09 PM Subscribe
Help me find this interactive fiction title
Asking for my sweetie. He used to play this interactive fiction game some years back, but never finished it. He wants to find it, but can't recall the title. Some cursory googling pulls up nothing.
Here is what he remembers:
-It was a text-only interactive fiction game
-Produced in the mid 1990s or earlier
-It took place in the future, a few hundred years hence or more
-It took place in our solar system
-As the main character, you could transport from planet to planet in pursuit of your goal. They all had some sort of infrastructure on them, from cities to just a few industrial installations, as was the case with Pluto
-It had a hard SF flavor. It incorporated realistic details about the planets, their atmospheres, and their gravity
Asking for my sweetie. He used to play this interactive fiction game some years back, but never finished it. He wants to find it, but can't recall the title. Some cursory googling pulls up nothing.
Here is what he remembers:
-It was a text-only interactive fiction game
-Produced in the mid 1990s or earlier
-It took place in the future, a few hundred years hence or more
-It took place in our solar system
-As the main character, you could transport from planet to planet in pursuit of your goal. They all had some sort of infrastructure on them, from cities to just a few industrial installations, as was the case with Pluto
-It had a hard SF flavor. It incorporated realistic details about the planets, their atmospheres, and their gravity
What platform?
posted by smithsmith at 8:35 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by smithsmith at 8:35 PM on June 16, 2011
Response by poster: PC or Mac, he can't remember which. It wasn't Unix or anything like that.
posted by Ideal Impulse at 8:37 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by Ideal Impulse at 8:37 PM on June 16, 2011
Were there no graphics at all? It couldn't have been Gateway?
posted by theatro at 8:45 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by theatro at 8:45 PM on June 16, 2011
Oh, hello, html failure, nice to see you. Let's try Gateway.
posted by theatro at 8:46 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by theatro at 8:46 PM on June 16, 2011
Try BAf's Guide. There's an entire category of Space Exploration text games listed there, maybe seeing the name will trigger his memory.
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posted by cosmicbandito at 8:48 PM on June 16, 2011
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posted by cosmicbandito at 8:48 PM on June 16, 2011
Response by poster: It is not Starcross or Gateway. It was text only, and it took place in this solar system.
posted by Ideal Impulse at 8:52 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by Ideal Impulse at 8:52 PM on June 16, 2011
Was it one of the Silicon Dreams trilogy? The games were called Snowball, Return to Eden and The Worm in Paradise.
posted by iconomy at 8:58 PM on June 16, 2011
posted by iconomy at 8:58 PM on June 16, 2011
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posted by Flunkie at 8:17 PM on June 16, 2011