Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. A game by Andrew Plotkin he describes as his "first serious work of interactive fiction".
Adventureinteractive fictiontext adventureWeb browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
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Character
Spare, plot-driven, intimate and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Andrew Plotkin
- Released
- December 31, 1995
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- Inform
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Film · Both classical in form, earnest, intimate.
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