Book & Volume

a.k.a. Book and Volume

created and published by Manifesto Games in 2005, running on Linux

type: adventure
genre: Interactive fiction
perspective: other
player options: single player

game engine: ZIL engine
languages: eng

Personal review

In a fictional world nWare has established the city of nTopia in the middle of nowhere. You are the sys admin and must do menial admin tasks that are assigned to you. But, there is something more going on.
This seems to be a art piece designed to explore the problems of motivation and prior knowledge in interactive fiction. And/or its about consumerism. And/or its just a very hard game to complete. Its meant for the player to fail repeatedly before being able to establish victory conditions. And/or its meant for the player to fail repeatedly.
If this were an infocom game:
Difficulty Level: | Junior | Introductory | Standard | Advanced |>>EXPERT<<