cobaltnine: interactive fiction 2008 descriptive icon (comp 2008)
cobaltnine ([personal profile] cobaltnine) wrote2011-07-17 09:56 pm
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IntroComp 2011 - Despondency Index

The Despondency Index is a Z-code game by Ed Blair, entered into IntroComp 2011.

A walkthrough! Notes that beta testers existed!

A walkthrough I checked because, wow, really, over that quickly?

The game appears to be a detective-slash-(likely) magic or occult theme (Anchorhead-y?), set, at least in the beginning, in northern California, with a detective that may have screwed something up before the game began. The writing is solid and I already get a little sense of the protagonist.

I'd like to see more of this, I think. What's there so far is well done - so well done I was really surprised it finished so quickly. That being said, things that edge into horror territory need to be handled carefully, but they are a genre I like when done well.