SPAG: SPAG Specifics: Creating, inverting and making good the detective genre

This article is a comparison between styles of two text adventure games in the mystery genre. First off is Deadline. This is the first game in the mystery genre produced by Infocom. The second is Jon Ingold's Make It Good. The later game owes much of its plot and style to the former classic that defined the genre. This paper reviews both games. In the first part we cover Deadline and in the second Make it Good is reviewed. To understand Ingold's game and what it attempts to do one must understand Deadline.



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