Comments on: Apollo 18+20, a Tribute to an Album in Interactive Fiction https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/ Nick Montfort Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Post Position » Interactive Fiction Hits the Fan https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12461 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:03:06 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12461 […] a recent IF tribute to a They Might Be Giants album might help to delude some people about this, interactive fiction these days is not about fandom and […]

]]> By: matt w https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12387 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:51:08 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12387 (And by the power of posting, I figured it out after comment 3. I’d tried “view canyon view”; I think that the first time I tried a palindromic command was the first time I got a different response, which led me down a rabbit hole.)

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12386 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:50:37 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12386 Yay!

]]> By: matt w https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12385 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:49:49 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12385 Aha moment: try backwards heading, heading backwards. Try… moment… Aha!

Nicely done palindromes! Good seeing good palindromes done nicely.

]]> By: matt w https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12384 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:14:48 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12384 Hold on… comment on hold.

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12383 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:12:11 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12383 Look back further. Read those words. Those, read. Further back. Look!

]]> By: matt w https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12382 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:09:42 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12382 Trail? What trail?

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12377 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:13:02 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12377 Matt, you’re on the right track but you aren’t looking far enough down the trail.

]]> By: matt w https://nickm.com/post/2012/03/apollo-1820-a-tribute-to-an-album-in-interactive-fiction/comment-page-1/#comment-12376 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:16:07 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2372#comment-12376 Are there hints for your entry? “Climb rocky climb” and “overlook overlook” don’t seem to do anything, leaving me unsure of the affordances. That is to say, I don’t know what I can do.

(I realize that, given my entry, for me to say that someone else has a recalcitrant parser is the chutziest chutzpah.)

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