Guard Duty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Jason F. Finx Genre: Cave crawl/Zorkian/Satire Language: en First Publication Date: 1999 License: Freeware Rating: 3.0 (based on 2 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY "Another night, another job guarding a treasure-laden underground lair against ransacking adventurers..." [--blurb from Competition '99] EXTERNAL LINKS guard.zip debugging history Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] guard.z8 original competition entry Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] EDITORIAL REVIEWS >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction > Wow, now that's really too bad. As with The Water Bird, I knew that there > was a fatal bug in Guard Duty before I started playing it. I didn't know > what that bug was. Turns out the game crashes as soon as you take inventory. > This crash occurs with both Frotz and Jzip. It doesn't occur with Evin > Robertson's Nitfol interpreter, though that interpreter will spit a lot of > errors at you during crash-worthy occasions unless you turn on its "ignore" > function. So that gave me a decision to make. Do I rate the game based on > its ability to function under my traditional interpreters of choice, or do I > download a new interpreter, set it to ignore all errors, and play through > the game (or as much as can be played) that way? I chose the former. REFERENCES [1]