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Photopia occurs as piece of literature by Adam Cadre rendered in the form of interactive fiction, and written inside Inform. These are repute a pioneer within narrative-caused, like than puzzle- or even challenge-caused, interactional fiction, & is peradventure a virtually all successful case of this genre up to now. It won number 1 place in the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Photopia has couple puzzles & a linear structure, leaving a streaming video player there are no way to vary a eventual guide however maintaining the illusion of non-linearity. This gives dreaded & deeply felt weight to a bit of of the story's motifs -- questions of free will and determinism. Photopia is so effectual around the portion because it subverts a expectation that 1 has upon encountering a piece of interactional fiction: that of these's actions have had symptoms.

Trivia
Adam Cadre has stated that Photopia was heavy influenced by The Sweet Hereafter, a film all about sitter & bus crashes. Adam Cadre borrowed, by owning permission, elements from either Opal O’Donnell’s chicken-comp game whenever making Photopia & asked to submit Photopia to the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition utilizing her title therefore that he may wash and then semi-anonymously. He felt that his former game I personally-0 would inspire certaaround expectations in players, since in this game a streaming video player character occurs as immature university student world health organization can be instructed to undress & frisk naked. [http://adamcadre.ac/content/phaq.txt]

Review by Andrew Plotkin
Review of 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition entry. "Three kow-tows and a bout of swearing."

Baf's Guide to the IF Archive: Photopia
Rated 5/5 by Carl Muckenhoupt. "This is probably the most successful example I've seen of interactivity at the service of fiction, rather than vice versa." Links to play online, downloads, walkthrough.

SPAG Reviews
Reviews by Paul O'Brian, Duncan Stevens, Brian Blackwell, and David Ledgard.

AdamCadre.ac: Games
Author's website. Download Photopia in Z-machine or PC executable format, play it online using Java, or read about the making of the game.


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