Jigsaw: Release 2 now out
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"Jigsaw": Release 2
An Interactive History by Graham Nelson
"Jigsaw" is the new adventure game by the author of "Curses". After two
and a half years of work, it is now complete and readers of this newsgroup
are cordially invited to play, free of charge...
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New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century
Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music
and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly your ideal party
(especially as that rather attractive stranger in black has slipped back
into the crowds) - but cheer up, you won't live to see the next.
JIGSAW
An Interactive History
Copyright (c) 1995 by Graham Nelson
Release 1 / Serial number 951026 / Inform v1600 Library 6/1
Century Park
At one side of the great Park, on a gravel path which runs west to northeast
beside poplar trees. Crowds of celebrants are enjoying themselves to the
north, having abandoned the canvas marquee east.
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...Jigsaw's home is the anonymous FTP site ftp.gmd.de (where Release 2 is
currently in temporary quarters at the "incoming/if-archive" directory); see
the "if-archive/games/infocom" directory for instructions on how you can get
Inform games to run on almost any computer.
This is by some margin the largest Infocom-format game yet constructed. It
comes in two versions: a single Version 8 file (which interpreters for most
machines are not yet able to play), or two Version 5 files, one to hold the
game itself and the other to hold footnotes:
Jigsaw.z8 (about 300K long)
Jigsaw_Game_R2.z5 (about 256K long)
Jigsaw_Footnotes_R2.z5 (about 63K long)
New players are advised to read the instructions (in the footnotes game,
or by typing "help" in the .z8 version) before getting under way.
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Some 198 bugs have been fixed in the game, and 9 in the footnotes, but
they're almost all cosmetic or only slightly irritating. (A good 20 or so
are punctuation errors, for instance.) There is only a tiny amount of new
material, mostly consisting of replies to interesting wrong guesses, except
that the Version 8 form restores about 10 lines of astronaut dialogue that
had to be cut from the V5 form for reasons of space. (For reasons of space,
no-one can hear you scream...)
Grateful thanks to the people who have emailed me during Jigsaw's first
fortnight of public existence. The credits have grown indeed.
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"Jigsaw" remains subject to copyright and carries no implied license for
further distribution, but the author will probably grant permission for
further distribution to any reasonable, non- or low-profit-making request.
(~Curses~, for instance, has been issued on three magazine discs in its
time and the author will happily entertain similar proposals for ~Jigsaw~.)
November 10th, 1995