IF games
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml Hitchhiker was fun for 5 minutes untill I tried to walk outside my room and the game ended. There was of course a reason this game ended but I did not like how it just ended and I lost. the game did not give me another chance to reenter the room and the game never told me I could not leave.This was frustrating and I did not like it.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/eliza.htm
Eliza was more entertaining like talking to a computer than fun as a game. I once again started to become frustrated with the responses of the game because I would get the same repsonse for two very different questions.
Lost Pig took a little tim to get used to. Once I had figured out the basic commands so I could continue through the game it became more interesting and fun. the game seemed to capture my imagination as I picture grunk walking around looking for this pig. I became aprat of this game I felt and assumed grunk as myself. I just wanted to capture this pig.
I chose to continue playing Lost pig because I felt a connection to the game and felt invested in the game. I was in the middle of a pig hunt I could not stop playing now. I had fallen into this hole and somehow ended up in the same place as the pig. It could not be this easy I thought as I typed in my command to "grab pig". Of corse it was not this simple and the pig ran away from me into another room. The frustrating part became when I felt like I was going in cirlces while chasing this pig. The pig would run from me. well grunk, into another room. I would enter that room and the pig would ran back to a different room. I could not catch this pig.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/lost-pig,7283/ This review on the Lost Pig did something i payed no attention to. The review noted the things grunk was saying that he was seeing around the room. I however, did not pay as much attention to these as I should have. I did notice the different doors and where grunk saw light but my main concern was to grab the pig before I did anything else. This was my downfall during the game and most likely why it became frustrating to me.
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Jeremy Barrick on IF games: I mentioned that about ELIZA.
I mentioned that about ELIZA. One would think that a near complete dictionary woulf be programmed into EELIZA's data.Her job is to recognize problems and diagnose them. With limited thinking ability, the same thing is asked over and over again when she gets stuck.
Eliza basically tells you what you tell her but in a different way. It's very limited.