A Change in the Weather | |
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Developer(s) | Andrew Plotkin |
Platform(s) | Z-machine [1] |
Release | 1995 [1] |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
A Change in the Weather is a 1995 interactive fiction (IF) video game.
Developed by Andrew Plotkin, the game [2] is written in version five of the Inform programming language, [3] and compiled for the Z-machine, [1] a virtual machine that allows interactive fiction to be played on a variety of platforms. [4] On June 24, 2014, Plotkin shared A Change in the Weather's source code for "personal, educational use only." [3]
The game tied for first place in the Inform category of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition. [5]
As one of six IF games recommended by CU Amiga in 1998, Jason Compton called A Change in the Weather "Very, very hard, it challenges IF conventions and makes you think (and save your game) quite a lot." [2] Interactive fiction scholar Nick Montfort called it "remarkable ... for its attempts to integrate the typical sorts of adventure-game puzzles with the description of landscape, the simulation of an animal character, and the emotional situation of the 'adventurer' player character". [6]
A Change in the Weather is included in the game collection that comes with the popular IF interpreter Frotz for the iPhone. [7]
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