Shrapnel
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Author(s): Adam Cadre
Genre: Horror/Surreal/Time Travel/Historical
Website: http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#Shrapnel
Language: en
First Publication Date: 2000
License: Freeware
Rating: 3.5 (based on 171 ratings)


EXTERNAL LINKS

  shrapnel.z5 <http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/shrapnel.z5>
    Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1]

  shrapnel.exe <http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/shrapnel.exe>

  ACgames.zip <http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/palm/ACgames.zip>
    converted to PalmOS .prc file

  shrapnel.txt <http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/shrapnel.txt>
    Author's notes

  Clubfloyd transcript <http://allthingsjacq.com/intfic_clubfloyd_20100903.html>


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

  IF-Review
  Rendered <https://web.archive.org/web/20160327222536/http://ministryofpeace.com/if-review/reviews/20011228.html>
  > In short, this is a gimmick game that shouldn't be a gimmick game. It's got
  > a couple of good gimmicks which are fiendishly clever, but the real strength
  > is in the characters.

  SPAG
  <http://www.spagmag.org/archives/s.html#shrapnel>
  > What this game does best is unsettle you. The whole game has an extremely
  > eerie atmosphere, and half of that is due to the strange plot (or lack of a
  > plot, I’m not sure which.) The other half is due to some Adam Cadre writing,
  > and the strange ignoring of player input. (Christian Baker)
  > 
  > In its own way, then, Shrapnel is quite a story, and that it's less
  > interactive fiction than a forced march isn't a major drawback, in the end.
  > (Duncan Stevens)

  Brass Lantern
  <http://www.brasslantern.org/reviews/text/shrapnel.html>
  > [Reviews by Iain Merrick, Emily Short and Quentin D. Thompson]


REFERENCES

  [1] <https://www.ifwiki.org/Z-code_interpreters>