The Primrose Path -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Nolan Bonvouloir Genre: Science Fiction Language: en First Publication Date: 2006 License: Freeware Rating: 4.0 (based on 36 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps; certainly you never planned on having to save your best friend's life. Now, it's up to you to unearth the secrets he's been concealing from you, perhaps learning a thing or two about yourself in the process... EXTERNAL LINKS Primrose.zblorb The latest release. Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] Primrose.z8 The original competition entry. Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] ClubFloyd Transcript EDITORIAL REVIEWS These Heterogenous Tasks ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF IF COMP: The Primrose Path > ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF IF COMP is my attempt, in the run-up to the 2016 IF > Competition, to go back over Comp entries which I missed the first time > around.[...][The Primrose Path] was also an Inform 7 game released the same > year that I7 was released as a public beta; for a first-time IF author with > “more or less nonexistent” programming experience to pick up the > somewhat-immature I7, learn to code in it, and produce a game that placed > second in the Comp within five months is a pretty amazing accomplishment.If > I was looking for a good counterpart to The Primrose Path… tonally, I might > go with Eurydice. But it’s also firmly a member of the time-travel tangle > genre, alongside works like All Things Devours, First Things First, Fifteen > Minutes and Meanwhile.The writing is feels very grounded, with a > matter-of-fact tone. This does an excellent job of maintaining a > magical-realism feeling; you always feel that Matilda is a real person, > rather than a fantasy trope or a player avatar. REFERENCES [1]