Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses
Game
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Published2000
Credits
AuthorEmily Short
Reception
Events
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IFComp 2000
2nd of 53
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XYZZY Awards 2000
Winner: Best Writing
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XYZZY Awards 2000
Finalist: Best Puzzles, Best Setting, Best Use of Medium
Gameplay
Interaction style
Parser
Parser
Literary genre
Fantasy
Fantasy
Location
Underground
Underground
LanguageEnglish
AccessibilityColour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring systemInform 6
FormatZ-code 5
LicenseFreeware
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How it begins

You are a female servant wearing a coarse brown dress, a ring, and slippers. You are carrying your workbox which contains a ball of yarn and a needle. You have been magically sent to a bare shapeless place where the walls shimmer. A rock lies here. Your task is to find the elements and bring them to your master.

Notable features

  • A simulationist game.
  • Almost all puzzles have multiple solutions.
  • Features the behavior of several matters, as well as assorted sizes and shapes of item, together with the option of damaging things.

Trivia and Comments

Versions

Competition version; Release 1

Date: 2000

Release 4

Date: 2002

Russian translation

Date: 2008

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Date: 2000

Date: 2002

Date: 2008