Hey everyone, my name is Jordan. I run a website called Necessary Games (www.necessarygames.com), and have been working on my first piece of interactive fiction -- a very short existential piece inspired by living in Korea. I'm having a terribly hard time finding people to test the thing, so I would be incredibly grateful if any of you could take a look, and provide feedback.
I've been testing the game myself, but seeing as this is my first effort, I'm sure there are a bunch of things that I'm stupidly overlooking.
This really isn't a game, so you may absolutely hate it. I'd still appreciate your feedback though!
It's got pictures so it's in glulx format (gblorb container), and can be downloaded from:
The thing is very short, as I've said, and will only take you a few minutes to play through. Thanks so much for taking the time, and I do apologize for any stupid mistakes!
The link has mime-type issues, I think--FF and Safari both try to download it as a text file. I was able to download it after some effort, but especially for people who are trying to download through google groups (which wraps the link), this may be a real obstacle.
Thanks a lot for pointing out the issues with the file Erik! I'm using Chrome, which doesn't seem to have any problems with it, but I should have checked other browsers.
In any case, here's a zipped version of the file with a minified link:
> The link has mime-type issues, I think--FF and Safari both try to > download it as a text file. I was able to download it after some > effort, but especially for people who are trying to download through > google groups (which wraps the link), this may be a real obstacle.
Here, JordanMagnuson <jm.magnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The link has mime-type issues, I think--FF and Safari both try to > > download it as a text file.
> Thanks a lot for pointing out the issues with the file Erik! I'm using > Chrome, which doesn't seem to have any problems with it, but I should > have checked other browsers.
If your web server is Apache and you can do .htaccess files, put these lines in one for MIME-friendly IF serving:
> Here, JordanMagnuson <jm.magnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The link has mime-type issues, I think--FF and Safari both try to > > > download it as a text file.
> > Thanks a lot for pointing out the issues with the file Erik! I'm using > > Chrome, which doesn't seem to have any problems with it, but I should > > have checked other browsers.
> If your web server is Apache and you can do .htaccess files, put these > lines in one for MIME-friendly IF serving:
> Hey everyone, my name is Jordan. I run a website called Necessary > Games (www.necessarygames.com), and have been working on my first > piece of interactive fiction -- a very short existential piece > inspired by living in Korea. I'm having a terribly hard time finding > people to test the thing, so I would be incredibly grateful if any of > you could take a look, and provide feedback.
> I've been testing the game myself, but seeing as this is my first > effort, I'm sure there are a bunch of things that I'm stupidly > overlooking.
> This really isn't a game, so you may absolutely hate it. I'd still > appreciate your feedback though!
> It's got pictures so it's in glulx format (gblorb container), and can > be downloaded from:
> The thing is very short, as I've said, and will only take you a few > minutes to play through. Thanks so much for taking the time, and I do > apologize for any stupid mistakes!
> Jordan
You can also try posting the game in the appropriate place on the intfiction.org forum.
