Slouching Towards Bedlam

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Author: 
Star C. Foster
Daniel Ravipinto
Year: 
2003
URL: 
Slouching Towards Bedlam
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Tags: 
interactive fictionsteampunkvictorianalternate-historyadventurehospitalfantasyvirusmental virusretro-futurism
Description (in English): 

Slouching Towards Bedlam is an interactive fiction game that won the first place in the 2003 Interactive Fiction Competition. It [..] was finalist for eight 2003 XYZZY Awards, winning four: Best Game, Setting, Story, and Individual NPC (for the protagonist's cybernetic assistant, Triage). The game takes place in a steampunk Victorian era setting. Its title is inspired by a line from "The Second Coming", a poem by W.B. Yeats.
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Interactive Fiction 2019

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Critical writing that references this work:

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Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media Jeremy Douglass 2007
The Gothic in Contemporary Interactive Fictions Van Leavenworth 2010
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