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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Gender roles in IF (Was:Re: Is there a place for sex in IF?)
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Carl Muckenhoupt (baf@max.tiac.net) wrote:
>  Text adventures have actually mostly
> stayed in the latter camp - frequently, all you know is that
> you're a detective or whatever.  There are notable exceptions, of
> course, and numerous grey areas, but few text adventures even tell
> you the protagonist's name.  (Witness last year's contest entries -
> I don't think there's a single named protagonist in the lot.)

For the sake of contentiousness (and because it's true), I will admit that
the protagonist in "A Change in the Weather" had a name. Because it was
me. In a particular situation I was in about a year and a half ago (just 
before I wrote "Weather".)

One might say that the protagonsit had well-defined traits, and the point 
of the game was to find out what they were.

--Z


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