No, not a prison, though stone stands around you, as expressionless as a mirror awaiting face and form; and in the silence you hear no plaint of flute or roar of gong, but instead the crash of porcelain shattering. A work of interactive fiction by Yoon Ha Lee.
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Character
Intimate, contemplative, grave and open-ended.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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Where do you stand?
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“Is the ambiguity a cop-out?”
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“Does the smallness hold it back?”
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“Is it style over substance?”
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About the game
- Platforms
- Web browser, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Yoon Ha Lee
- Released
- October 1, 2002
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- Inform
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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