Alabaster

June 5, 2009 10:31 PM

Alabaster. Experimental interactive fiction take on Snow White written collectively by Emily Short and ten others. Features 18 endings and procedural illustrations that dynamically reflect game state.

[Windows] [OSX] [game file by itself if you alreadt have Glulx] [walkthrough pdf]

posted by juv3nal (8 comments total)

Other Fractured Fairy Tale titles by Emily Short include Bronze, based on Beauty and the Beast and Glass, based on Cinderella.
posted by juv3nal at 10:48 PM on June 5, 2009

nice
posted by twoleftfeet at 11:20 PM on June 5, 2009

OH YES. I really like Emily Short's work a LOT. I think I know how the rest of my Friday night is going to go...eighteen endings!

Bronze was the first of hers that I read/played. And then I hunted down everything else of hers that I could find.
posted by annathea at 11:36 PM on June 5, 2009

I really enjoyed that. I did about three endings on my own before I looked at the walkthrough for possible endings, and then tried to do about six more just by knowing the end. 50% success rate on that. and at one for three on total endings, it's bedtime.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:59 AM on June 6, 2009

Fascinating. Thank you.
posted by fourcheesemac at 5:09 AM on June 6, 2009

thanks for sharing! I haven't played any IF in a while, but Emily Short is one of the standards. Good to see new work of hers!
posted by nat at 9:44 AM on June 6, 2009

Yes yes yes and double yes.

Check out Bronze as well. It's really good.
posted by The Whelk at 11:42 AM on June 6, 2009

Well, this was a fantastic way to kill an afternoon. On to Bronze and Glass!
posted by aint broke at 3:43 PM on June 6, 2009