Review down below; note there are very mild spoilers about the puzzles.

Next on the agenda is Wish, a Christmas vignette. I write this on Halloween. Theming, what theming?

Next up is the philosophical fantasy/educational game, The Chinese Room. I should mention this is an at-the-2-hour-judging-mark review, because I get the impression it will be long after the competition is over before I finish.

It’s yet another milestone in my quest to find strange IF. It is Camille, our sun! She is bright and happy usually and also shines and stuff. She also hurts my eyes when I look at her directly apparently. She is very nice apart from that though. Somehow when I originally posted about the B-Game [...]

This is Paul Panks RPG #2 of this competition, written in BASIC. Spoilers for the funny bit about the setting are below, so if you plan to play this you should do so before reading the review.

Next on the slate is the post-apocalyptic work Ferrous Ring.

(p. 28) Emily Short’s essay “What’s IF?” makes several points of interest, although it does not define interactive fiction well enough to distinguish it from chatterbots and other programs. (The full essay “What’s IF?” is here.) I’ll grant the essay is digressive. I’d argue it’s simply taking the question of defining IF as the starting [...]

Review down below.

Next on the list is the historical mystery, Lord Bellwater’s Secret.

Or more precisely, BENEATH: a Transformation. While it is based on stories of Robert E. Howard, if you think one of Lovecraft’s “creeping madness” stories you aren’t too far off.