System's Twilight
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Publisher(s) | Self-published |
Designer(s) | Andrew Plotkin |
Platform(s) | Mac OS |
Release | October 8, 1994[1] |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
Mode(s) | Single player |
System's Twilight: An Abstract Fairy Tale is a graphical interactive fiction computer game created by Andrew Plotkin and released in 1994.
Summary[]
![Screenshot from System's Twilight](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Systems-Twilight-game-screenshot.png/195px-Systems-Twilight-game-screenshot.png)
An early in-game puzzle. The characters are depicted as abstract shapes.
The game is a combination of puzzle and story, combining several different kinds of logic puzzles and word puzzles. The puzzles include variations of Set, Black Box, and Sokoban, as well as many others. The overarching story is an allegory in which the player and other characters are programs in a broken, dysfunctional computer environment.
Originally, Plotkin released System's Twilight as shareware. Since 2000, it has been re-released as binary-only freeware. It runs only on the Mac OS Classic environment, but can be run in emulation on other platforms.
References[]
- ^ Plotkin, Andrew (2009-10-08). "System's Twilight turns fifteen". The Gameshelf. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1994 video games
- 1990s interactive fiction
- Classic Mac OS-only games
- Video games developed in the United States
- Classic Mac OS games