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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Is there a place for sex in IF?
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Jon Conrad (conrad@copland.udel.edu) wrote:
> But:  After gazillions of these games, I am getting a bit tired of
> playing someone of a different orientation (protagonists in IF are
> invariably straight, I'm not).  Granted, in the majority of games this
> never comes up, and that's fine.  But even LGOP assumed that once your
> gender was established, so was your gender-of-interest.  JIGSAW looked
> promising, and I was getting into that angle of it, but one episode near
> the end did establish that you and Black are of different genders.

I'm curious which episode you meant. I went all the way through Jigsaw 
and never got jarred out of the "ambiguous" mode. I never saw anything 
which specified either gender, separately or relative to each other.

(Except for a couple of parser bugs, which may have been fixed by now.)

--Z

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