Strangers in the Night -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Rich Pizor Genre: Vampire Language: en First Publication Date: 1999 License: Freeware Rating: 2.0 (based on 2 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY "Being immortal is cool, except for that whole "drinking the blood of the innocent" part..." [--blurb from Competition '99] EXTERNAL LINKS stranger.gam Requires a TADS interpreter[1] readme.txt Author's blurb EDITORIAL REVIEWS >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction > Strangers In The Night starts out with a cool premise: You are a vampire, > and you awaken with a terrible thirst for blood. You must feed on at least > three different victims (draining each only a little, so as not to arouse > undue attention.) However, it's the summer solstice, the shortest night of > the year... and so you have only a limited time to slake your desires. Done > well, this could be a sort of undead Varicella, where with every iteration > of the game you figure out more and more about how to satisfy your needs. > Unfortunately, Strangers In The Night turns out to be more of an undead > Fifteen. You wander around an extremely minimally described cityscape (most > rooms have no description at all) solving rudimentary puzzles, most of which > just amount to unlocking a door, then walking in and typing "BITE ". What > little writing is present has some nicely gothic moments -- I particularly > enjoyed the descriptions of the PC's apartment. On the other hand, it is > also riddled with a goodly number of errors, including two in the first two > sentences. Misspellings, plural/possessive errors, awkward phrasings -- > they're all there. SynTax > The atmosphere throughout STRANGERS is dark, brooding and very gothic, with > well-described locations and believable characters. This game is NOT > recommended for children - although there is no obvious blood-and-guts type > of violence, there is a very dark and adult feel to the whole game. > > -- Bev Truter REFERENCES [1]