IFDB page: FutureGame
Final placement: 33rd place (of 36) in the 2005 Interactive Fiction Competition
Here we have a little joke. Not a game, not really. There’s a setup, and then there’s a punch line, or if we’re being generous, a selection of punch lines. But really they’re pretty much the same punch line, with maybe some micro-jokes embedded in their differences.
With a game, I try to avoid spoilers. With a joke, anything beyond the premise is a spoiler. So here’s the premise: there’s this business, and it has taken an absurdly business-y approach to crafting a successful IF game. Think you can guess the punch line? You are probably right!
Was it funny, though? Mildly. There’s some wit in the initial paragraphs, and I said “Heh” the first time I saw the punch line. I kind of saw this experience coming when I noticed that the entire game is 11 KB.
It’s a bit hard to rate this, as it’s really a completely different thing than almost all the other stuff I’m rating on the same scale. Super short. Kinda clever. Briefly funny. Not a game. So, maybe let’s call it a…
Rating: 3.1